08 April 2018
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For Those Who Don't Have the Spirit, Part 2 (TMF:865)

Friday, April 13, 2018
Peace to Live By: For Those Who Don't Have the Spirit, Part 2 (TMF:865) - Daniel Litton
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       Today you may feel very sinful, very separated from God. But, this is now your opportunity to come to know God. God welcomes people into his arms who want to have a relationship with him. He is not a mean, stern, or resisting God. No, he wants more people to come to know him. He already loves you, and he wants you to know him and have life through him. When Jesus was here on the earth, quite a long time ago, he died on the cross to provide a way for you and for me to know God. See, our sin separates us from God, and the only way we can know God is to have a payment for our sin. We cannot make it good ourselves; we cannot provide a sacrifice for all of our sins that make us acceptable to God. We cannot do enough good to outweigh our bad. Our bad is not erased by our good. So, the only way we can become acceptable to God, good in his sight, is by counting on Jesus’ sacrifice for us. His death on the cross provides an acceptable substitute for us to God.

For Those Who Don't Have the Spirit, Part 1 (TMF:864)

Thursday, April 12, 2018
Peace to Live By: For Those Who Don't Have the Spirit, Part 1 (TMF:864) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, I want to take some time and talk to you out there who don’t have the Spirit of God dwelling inside you. You may have been listening to what I have been talking about today, and it may have sounded foreign to you. You may not have recognized anything I was saying. Or, perhaps, you’ve heard it many times, but you know, deep down, that you don’t have the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. You don’t feel his presence, and he doesn’t bear witness with your spirit that you are a Christian, that you belong to God. You know you shouldn’t do any longer the wrong things you do, your sins, and turn to God, but you just haven’t yet made that decision. Well, today, I want to encourage you, whatever situation you are in, to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. You see, God saves us, but he doesn’t just do that and leave us alone to live life ourselves. He doesn’t leave us to just follow a list of rules from the Bible, or from a church. God gives us the gift, when we believe in him, of the Holy Spirit, and we live out our lives through him, by his power working within us.

The Devil Tries to Control Our Thoughts (TMF:863)

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Peace to Live By: The Devil Tries to Control Our Thoughts (TMF:863) - Daniel Litton
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       We should think thoughts that will lead us into right speech and actions in our daily lives. This sounds very basic, yet it is so fundamental. The thoughts we think are very important to the quality of our daily lives. Most of our life experience depends on the thoughts we are thinking. The devil tries to control our minds. If we let him control our thoughts, he can control are lives, right? But good thoughts lead to good fruit in our lives. And the Spirit works in us to bear His fruit. In Galatians 5, Paul states, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law” (Galatians 5:22, 23, ESV). This fruit will crop up in our lives if we are walking in the Spirit daily, but not just letting Satan do with our thoughts whatever he wants to do.

Following the Spirit Gives Us Peace to Mind (TMF:862)

Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Peace to Live By: Following the Spirit Gives Us Peace to Mind (TMF:862) - Daniel Litton
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       A lot of people are seeking to have a good life, filled with peace. Well, in the most basic sense, you arrive at this life when you let the Holy Spirit lead you, when you follow the Spirit, when you apply the Word of God to your life. God is not a kill joy. He wants us to enjoy life, to love our lives, and have good days (see 1 Peter 3:10). Again, Paul contrasts the mind of the Spirit as living in ‘life’ and the mind of the flesh as living in ‘death.’ We all know that sinful ways just give you temporary and momentary pleasure, but afterwards leave you with an empty feeling. To get away from this empty feeling, people need to not follow their instinctive, sinful, fleshly impulses. We should think thoughts that will lead us into right speech and actions in our daily lives. This sounds very basic, yet it is so fundamental.

We Should Have the Mind of the Spirit, Part 3 (TMF:861)

Monday, April 09, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Should Have the Mind of the Spirit, Part 3 (TMF:861) - Daniel Litton
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       It would also be good for us to spend time in prayer with God sometime in the morning after we wake up. This is important for success during the day. There is power behind the Word of God, and the Spirit’s power is also released in our life following His Word. This is when we apply what the Word says in our living, in our thoughts, in what we say to ourselves and others, and in our behavior. The Mind of the Spirit produces ‘good’ daily life and peace in our lives. Paul just said, “For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace” (Romans 8:6, ESV). A lot of people are seeking to have a good life, filled with peace. Well, in the most basic sense, you arrive at this life when you let the Holy Spirit lead you, when you follow the Spirit, when you apply the Word of God to your life. God is not a kill joy. He wants us to enjoy life, to love our lives, and have good days (see 1 Peter 3:10).