Encouraging Christians

Run. Run. Run your Race!

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.

A Believer who must always be comfortable will eventually compromise when obedience becomes uncomfortable.

Run your race. Lay aside the weight of fear which causes you to desire to protect yourself rather than moving forward by faith and trusting God.

Stay faithful to the Lord. Don’t let spiritual discouragement keep you from God’s reward for you.

Stay in the saddle even when it’s uncomfortable. Keep running forward. What is God developing in you. Keep in the learning seat and let Him work. Don’t bolt.

How are you running your race in the sight of the gray cloud of witnesses?

Getting saved by faith. Becoming God’s eternal child by faith. Walking with God by faith. God leads us all by faith on the path He designed for us.

Focusing on Jesus is the answer to our issues we face today as believers. Jesus is phenomenal. Jesus endured the cross, despised the shame of it, but completed His race that the Father laid before Him. What a Savior! Are you focusing on Jesus today as you run your race?

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God is not ashamed to be called your God. Continue being faithful. Continue focused on Him. Continue steadfast in the face of your oppression and attacks against your faith - God aligns Himself with you. The world may reject your identification with God, but God is not ashamed to identify Himself with you.

We are tearing down strongholds by learning and believing the truth, and telling ourselves the truth in the Sword Of The Spirit - the Word of God. Sometimes when we begin to break down a stronghold we feel conviction, sometimes a hurt from our past (one we have relived over and over in our mind), sometimes we correct wrong thinking/beliefs, sometimes we get mental and emotional freedom from anguish of some kind. If you want to get personal help identifying and addressing a stronghold, please reach out to us at encouragingchristians@gmail.com

We want to help you move forward in the freedom Jesus has already provided for you through salvation. When you appropriate Truth, His Word makes you free. Are you walking daily in that freedom? Would you like to?

Strongholds - we all need to win against them or lose battles to the world, the flesh, and the devil. Are You Winning Your Battles?

When you get saved you are a new born baby in your faith. You need mature believers to help you grow. They will help you and invest in you and pick you up when you fall. They will teach you to pray and learn to study the Bible. They will help you identify bad habits and change. All of us need help when we get saved and start a life of faith.

God is in control. Do you trust Him?

God spoke words and the known universe appeared “ex nihilo” out of nothing! God’s Word is so powerful we cannot conceive in our tiny little brains just all that God accomplished in 1 week of creation. We understand this by faith.

Faith - a conviction. Faith - a foundation. Faith - a subfloor. What is yours like?

Are you on your way to Heaven by faith or are you on your way to hell by judgment?

Our choices move us in one direction or another. What direction are your choices moving you towards?

Grace to Repent and Recover Yourself from Satan’s snare in your life. That’s true freedom.

Are you currently trapped in a snare from Satan? Would you like to recover yourself from that snare? What is the Truth you need to acknowledge from God? Are you willing to humbly repent and change as God leads you?

Genuine Repentance results in a genuine change and obedience to God’s Word. If you are not obeying God’s Word then you have not repented. If you want help reach out to us at encouragingchristians@gmail.com please.

Sometimes our snares get so dominating we become dominated by them. But Jesus is and offers true Hope to every Hopeless person - even you. Will you acknowledge His truth today?

There is only one true source of Hope - Truth! Do you know and live according to God’s Truth or do you make up your own as you go? One leads to genuine freedom and the other to a self-inflicted snare.

What do you owe God? What offense toward God has your sin caused? Jesus loves you. Jesus died for you. Jesus paid for the total price of all your sins and penalties on the cross. Will You Put It On His Account Today? Please reach out to us at encouragingchristians@gmail.com and let us know how we can encourage you personally as a believer today.

Titus 3:5 summarizes salvation and the ongoing renewal of the believer as completed by the Holy Spirit. Are you regularly experiencing His renewal process in you?

You got saved by Grace. Are you still following God’s Grace in your life?

Are you fighting as a Christian? Are you fighting against the world, the flesh, and the Devil? Are you fighting against the enemy? Is it a good fight that you are fighting?

Loyalty: Biblical, Abusive, Conditional, or Exploitive? Which kind do you practice? Which kind do you want to live by?

Are you a loyal person? Would your mate say that you are? Would your church describe you that way? Do you know what Biblical loyalty is?

What happens when someone loyal to you stops benefiting you? How do you respond?

What does it mean to give your full loyalty to God? Are you able to do just that?

I am loyal to you or God so long as you are loyal to me. Does this mean - I am loyal to you until you stop benefiting me? Is that Biblical loyalty?

Don’t let your pleasures become your idols.

What promises you relief or an escape gradually becomes your master. Who or what is your Master?

Hatred for another human being is the first step towards murder. Do you hate any person?

Envy is horrible. Envy makes you lonely. How?

Are you falling for a heresy or remaining Humble, Teachable, and focused on truth?

Have you experienced someone in your church trying to split the church under the guise of “standing for the truth?” Ask yourself and others, “Does their spirit reflect Christ? Are they masking a hidden wounded pride or is it a ploy or desire for influence?” Why do they speak against authority instead submitting to God and functioning under authority? Why don’t they quietly leave and find a place they can worship peacefully instead causing sedition?

Is the Holy Spirit producing Humility, Love, Peace, and Meekness in you? Have you grown more to reflect these daily since you got saved? Does Strife, constant tension, broken teamwork, loss of joy, and confusion describe you better than those fruit of the Spirit? Do you want to be a person known for Strife or Peace?

Strife - living and serving my self-interest more than God or anyone around me. Does this describe you?

What happens when we don’t love God 1st and most?

Moving away from the flesh and leaning towards the Spirit. Would you say this is the path you are on?

How do you bring into control your wrath or explosive anger that aims at revenge and retribution? Are you willing to admit that it’s a work of your flesh?

What is in your heart will come out for others to experience - good, bad, or just downright ugly! What do you want them to see?

Emulations - A Painful Jealousy - to what degree do you find yourself jealous of others who receive blessings?

Some people enjoy causing contention and stirring up strife. They are walking in the flesh and fulfilling the work of the flesh known as variance. Is this you?

Hatred - a hostile attitude of unforgiveness, resentment, and bitterness holds captive the one who harbors it in their heart.

Hatred kills long before physical death.

God has a purpose and plan for each of us. He is the Creator. He created you. He is the giver of life. He gave you the gift of life? Are you fulfilling His purpose, His way?

Becoming A Person Of Grace

He is Real. Christ is Real. Heaven is Real. The Rapture is Real. How Real is He to you today?

Desiring power without submission to God leads to trying to divine spiritual or supernatural power not sourced in God. Do you sweetly submit to the Holy Spirit or do you seek power for you and your spirit?

God is All-Powerful. You can trust Him. Do You?

Moving from Darkness to light.

The irks of the Flesh are manifest in Witchcraft.

Are you responsible to manifest the fruit of the Spirit or are you responsible to submit to the Spirit? When we submit to the Spirit, He manifests and produces the fruit of the Spirit in us. We can try to imitate it but it’s still just carnal flesh. When we fall in line as a soldier, to the daily direction and leadership of the Spirit of God, we are walking in the Spirit and He is then producing His fruit in us.

What do you have an inner conflict over? Is it a daily conflict? Paul had a daily conflict with His flesh. He said, “I die daily.” Do you crucify your flesh daily?Do you conform to the Spirit daily? Do you walk in the flesh daily and manifest the works of the flesh daily in your heart and in your mind and hope to God that no one else can see your flesh?

We all face temptations. We all have a flesh-centered carnal heart. Who we yield to makes us different: the Flesh or The Holy Spirit.

Do you have an idolatrous heart? How do you identify the idol and win as a believer before it is manifesting in your life to others?

Modern idols such as:

Money

Career

Success

A Relationship

Children

Your Reputation

Comfort

Politics

Technology

Gaming

Entertainment

Ministry

Any of these may become an idol in each of our lives that diminishes our intimacy with God. If you haven’t heard from Him in a while, ask Him what idol has diminished your intimacy with God. You may already know what it is. How do you make it right with God?

What do you manifest to yourself? Works or Flesh?

Angry, upset, letting others know you are unhappy since life didn’t go your way. Where does this come from?

The Lord does not abandon those who have been bruised. He restores them with patient strength.

Just for 1 day be Spirit-filled and directed, how would you be different?

Lasciviousness is a manifestation of a work of the flesh. Many people are in bondage to this behavior because they are in bondage to lasciviousness in their heart and mind. Lasciviousness is unrestrained sensuality. It’s when a person throws off moral restraints. They then lose shame over their sinful behavior. Lasciviousness is destructive to one’s life because they begin to celebrate in their heart what they once resisted when they were pure and embracing a pure conscience and lifestyle. Their conscience becomes hardened. Their unrestrained sin becomes public. Others are influenced towards compromise.

Please, fellow Christian: Check yourself, before you Wreck yourself!

What is manifesting uncleanness? How do believers and lost people get to the lower degree and manifest uncleanness or moral impurity (that which pollutes the mind, imagination, speech, or behavior)? Looking at pornography and enjoying/sharing crude humor and inappropriate media/stories, focusing on romantic fantasies that create unrealistic expectations that draw you away from Biblical truth and reality. Being a busybody, who gossips, is bitter, and shares negative speech about others habitually. God has a redemptive pattern for uncleanness: temptation, Guard your mind, bring the tempting thought captive to Jesus, replace the lies with truth, meditate on Scripture, think on what is pure, renew your mind, clean your conscience, enjoy purity in Life. Uncleanness is replaced by the Spirit’s fruit: purity, goodness, joy, and peace. What is in your heart becomes manifest to others through your lips and your life. Are you manifesting uncleanness or purity to people?

The law of gravity applies to everyone, even babies who don’t know about it. Even those who deny its existence. The law of sowing and reaping applies to everyone too. Even those who believe themselves to be above the law or who act as if the law doesn’t apply to them. Don’t deceive yourself. If you sow bad things such as lies about others, don’t get in an uproar when the same lies are said about you.

Tell the truth about others and the truth will be told about you. Let God determine the abundance of the crop. You sow the right crop and you will receive the blessings of the right crop.

This is how a person recognizes and recovers themselves out of the snare of Satan. Grace to humble themselves, stop believing a lie, repent, receive the truth and believe it. Then reap good and not evil. This affects a person, their marriage, their family, their children, even grandchildren. This is generational and ancestral-just like every generation of you and me going all the way back to Adam has been governed by the law of gravity so too are we governed by the law of sowing and reaping. God’s grace and mercy when we repent heals, changes, and fixes us. Without it, We receive abundantly in harvest, what we have sown! What do you want to receive? What are you sowing?

Looking, Fantasy, Lusting, Desire, Conception, Adultery, Sin equals death

How do you replace a sinful habit with a spiritual habit?

Good habits or bad habits. We are all creatures of habit.

People who see you every day - they either see you manifesting Jesus (being Spirit-led) or manifesting your Flesh (works of the flesh). Which do you see and which do they see? Are you being homiest with yourself?

What do you look like to others when you are Spirit-led? When you are fulfilling the lust of your flesh? How do you turn towards the Spirit? How long do you go in the Flesh? A few minutes? All day? Christian, are you practicing submitting to God the Holy Spirit every day?

What do you see in yourself when you are walking in the flesh? What about when you are walking in the Spirit?

What does modern day liberty - Spirit-filled and led believers look like? Focused on faith or works? Focused on changes of the heart by faith into Christlikeness or changes on the outward flesh. A modern day believer should be faith focused on heart conformity to Christ. Jesus will address and change aspects of our life as we submit to His leading. Liberty does not equal licentiousness.

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Truth doesn’t just inform your mind, it transforms your heart! Submit to God. Resist the devil (lie, world, flesh, disobedience, lack of faith, etc). He (deception, hardened heart, bondage, stubbornness, rebellion) will flee!

A stubborn heart causes: resistance to correction, delayed spiritual growth, and repeated cycles of bondage. Is that you? Are you experiencing God’s freedom for you or bondage?

The Holy Spirit brings truth to expose, correct, and heal. A hardened heart responds, “That doesn’t apply to me.” “Someone else needs to hear that.” Does this sound like you or someone you know?

Do you have a reputation for being obstinate? Are you stiff necked? Are you resistant towards correction?

True freedom in Christ is where your heart is open and receptive to truth from God’s Word and directed by His Spirit to your spirit, soul, mind, emotions, will (decision maker), and your body. You receive it by submitting to it.

As a believer, do you think about the finishing of your race daily? How will you cross the finish line? Will you receive more good rewards standing before the judgment seat of Christ than bad? Good equals eternal. Bad equals burned up in the proving fire. What are you working for as a believer?

What suffering is abounding in your life right now that will possibly unlock your next level of blessing if you remain faithful. Jesus consoled Peter after he denied Christ 3 times and restored him in the eyes of the disciples. Peter preached on Pentecost. 3,000 were saved and added to the church. Next level blessing. Where is yours?

Where was Jesus when you were suffering? Right there with you.

God’s Holy Spirit wants to guide you into the Truth of His Word and conform you to the image of Jesus Christ. The Water Is Running, Are You Getting Wet?

God is the Father of Jesus Christ. He is the Father of all mercies. Have you experienced His mercies to you?

Are you a mature man? Are you a mature woman? Are you a mature believer?

God has already us as believers the Victory. We continue to be steadfast because of it. We continue to be unmovable because of it. We continue to abound in the work of the Lord because of the doorway of Victory we have directly to Heaven.

Are you a life giver like Jesus?

Learning to spot the temptation and find the way of escape will help each of us build Christlike character.

What is God’s way of Escape? Humbly look for it and take it!

God’s escape is always available

No believer is alone in temptation.

Satan lies to us and often convinces that our struggles are unique to us.

God always knows our limits.

Every temptation is under His sovereign control.

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Spiritual maturity does not eliminate the possibility of temptation.

1 Corinthians 11 - which would you receive?

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What are the counsels of your heart that honor the Lord? Which ones do not? Which ones do you follow?

Temptation touches everyone. Not every temptation ends the exact same way.

Who do you know that has not been affected by temptation in some way?

Paul became all things to all men for the gospel’s sake. What do you do?

God works His plan. Be a positive part of it.