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Hi Bud (my Nephew's nick name)! I like your comments, esp. that our old nature is our worst enemy, on which I agree, because it is the closest opposition. Though Scripture does not refer to believers as "sinners," God's Word clearly teaches us we cannot live this life apart from sinning, because...

Believers function by two natures: I the old man and I the new, but “live” and “walk” only after one (Gal 5:25), because nobody can have two masters (Mat 6:24). It’s not merely in the desire to sin, but also in the willingness to sin that confirms the “dominion” of sin (Ro 6:14) in the “natural...

What is to be said of Israel’s eschatology—God’s first-loved on the earth (the Christian being His first-loved in heaven)? Israel is one of the prime examples of God’s faithfulness to His promises to man, which are a show off His love. The most significant emblem of His love is confirmed within...

No matter how well maintained we are at disallowing our problems to escalate into “troubles” (Jhn 14:1, 27), there will always be prearranged difficulties in the way. Though sovereignly controlled (Ro 8:28), they will require “enduring” (2Ti 2:3), by “casting all your care on Him” (1Pe 5:7); and...

Hi and appreciate your reply. I think he knows he only has a "short time" anyway (Rev 12:12), and he knows he cannot "snatch" anyone from God's hands, so his thoughts are always how to delay believers from growing in their faith.

Obviously Satan does not believe God is omniscient, which is seen in the fact that he did not realize God knew Job is always faithful, regardless of what he encounters. Surely one of the greatest comforts to us can be in just knowing that God not only already knows all that we will encounter...

Often I learn that I can only wait it out, and it helps me to know it's usually because of being to self-minded.

We also learn more about "enduring hardness" each time the Spirit takes us through and so the trials become less discouraging all the time.

Yes, and wait it out with that! There must be eventual deliverance, and this is the same for the rest of the difficulties He will strengthen us with, because He will always deliver.

I've battled this same trial and learned that I was always thinking too much of what I think about everything instead of continuing to see what God thinks about everything. We will always be opposed by our old nature, but for one reborn it's always to increase our faith in what we know the Word...

Nice Mag! Thanks and God bless!

Appreciate the reply and God bless!

In the beginning years of our rebirth we find that God meets our earthly needs and we are much drawn and thankful to Him for it, and we continue to learn that He will ever meet them during the remnant of our earthly time! But once spiritual growth of the Word begins to become more understood...

A believer is “a wise master-builder” (1Co 3:10) if he is given to know the purpose for “works” (in the Word which produce love), that they derive in this life from the grace of salvation! In relation to this life, they are purposed to glorify God via being used to “draw” the lost and “exhort”...

The most helpful truth I’ve learned about myself is that which concerns my “old man” and how busy it seems to maintain itself in everything. During the times I identify the old man’s activity it’s then I can determine how far back and how long it has been affecting me in my present situation...

The only way to be free from sin is to become dead to it, “For he that is dead is freed from sin” (Rom 6:7). What is involved being free from sin? Scripture, and the testimony of the believer’s walk, clearly show it doesn’t involve the eradication of sin, nor its source—“the old man,” otherwise...

If we have genuinely received Christ, there will be that constant “desire” to “do” the “pleasure” of God (Phl 2:13); and thankfully He takes us through all the trials we encounter and teaches us to wait on Him, by entrusting all to Him (1Pe 5:7). It is He who directs our “hardness” (2Ti 2:3) and...

I believe there is a difference between God’s “will” and God’s “desire.” His desire is that angels keep “their first estate,” but His will is “everlasting fire” (Mat 25:41) when they “leave” it (Jude 1:6). Same for man, as He “desires all men to be saved,” and “not desiring that any should...

I made the font bigger so I could read it easier. I hope this was ok with you. Plenty fine, and appreciate your interest and the Lord's teachings in them! God bless!

To “walk in the Spirit is to have the Lord Jesus as actual source of all that arises in us of thoughts and feelings. A man’s spirituality is measured by this. What freedom from sin and all besides to fellowship with the Father, and to serve Him! “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus...