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More Pleasing to God with our Minds (TMF:2035)

Friday, February 24, 2023
Peace to Live By: More Pleasing to God with our Minds (TMF:2035) - Daniel Litton
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       The only way to get rid of a thought, any thought, no matter what it is, it to stop whacking it with our mallet. We have to allow the thought to play out with no judgment about it whatsoever, by observing it as if it didn’t belong to us, and we will see that overtime it will pass. It’s an incredible thing. My own experience in doing this is that most thoughts will last either 10 or 20 seconds and then pass. Sometimes if one is deeper, it will last longer and require prolonged periods of time and eventually subside. All thoughts though, those we don’t want, can and will subside using this method. This is giving up control of our minds so that we can what? So that we can be more pleasing to God with our thought-life. What does this also get for us? It gets us peace, happiness, joy, and the rest of the positive emotions. We are no longer controlled by our thoughts, no longer at the mercy of them, but by giving up control we truly gain total control.

Getting Out of the Fear Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:2034)

Thursday, February 23, 2023
Peace to Live By: Getting Out of the Fear Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:2034) - Daniel Litton
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       Regardless, remember what he said, and it’s within one of our verses, “but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18, ESV). Giving up control means that we are not focused on fear, but on letting out all that emotional pressure behind it. It means that when fear crops up in our minds, and this may be several times a minute initially, we have to let that fear out by not moving against it, by not trying to push it back down within ourselves. So, when a fearful thought is presented to us, a bothering thought, no matter what that is, we need to face it head on if we are ever going to overcome it. Pushing the thought down inside ourselves and saying, “Oh, I don’t want to the think about that! I don’t want to deal with that!” won’t do us any good. That is because the thought will just come back later on in time to, again, be dealt with. When we keep pushing negative thoughts down, it’s like being at Chucky Cheese when we were kids and playing ‘Whac-A-Mole.’ You know the game. You hit a mole’s head, he goes down, but then another one pops up, and you keep doing this over and over.

Getting Out of the Fear Mindset, Part 1 (TMF:2033)

Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Peace to Live By: Getting Out of the Fear Mindset, Part 1 (TMF:2033) - Daniel Litton
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       In speaking of giving up control, let us remind ourselves of what this method of understanding means. The whole premise behind giving up control, or we might say surrendering, is to get out of a fear state in our minds. Fear is attached to the lower levels of consciousness. Remember, the Apostle John talked about this, before he transcended (that is, unless he is still around, perhaps wanting in a cave for Indiana Jones). Regardless, remember what he said, and it’s within one of our verses, “but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18, ESV). Do you see? Often the New Testament writers speak to us more on an everyday, common, human level, a level that most people would understand due to the degradation in their level of consciousness. John here shows us that of which the ultimate goal is, and that is getting out of the fear state. Again, Giving up control means that we are not focused on fear, but on letting out all that emotional pressure behind it.

Choosing How We Serve from the Heart (TMF:2032)

Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Peace to Live By: Choosing How We Serve from the Heart (TMF:2032) - Daniel Litton
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       The beautiful thing is, is that we can choose how we want to serve God, again, the Law of Liberty. God gifts us with spiritual gifts, and these drive our desires, the things we want to do for him and for others. We also have natural likes and dislikes that have been created in us. All of this being taken into account, this means we are free to do our ‘works’ how we see fit, with what aligns with what seems right. The person who is doing this or that because they think they should, rather than because they want to, isn’t following their heart. People build their who lives on following commandments from the Bible in a wooden fashion, with no heart behind it. And I often wonder if these people will get much when they die. There is the feeling on the part of the person, “I am doing this and that for God. I am really living up for what God wants.” And the person will tell this to God when they come into in presence. But what will be the response? The person who did less, but followed their heart, will definitely get in, and get more.

The Alive Spirit vs. the Dead Spirit (TMF:2031)

Monday, February 20, 2023
Peace to Live By: The Alive Spirit vs. the Dead Spirit (TMF:2031) - Daniel Litton
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       Anyway, James parallels the body with faith, and the spirit with works. In a sense, like we’ve been talking about, we all have works. We all have bodies so we all have works. We only have an ‘alive’ spirit, a reborn spirit, if we have faith. Our spirit is dead without trusting in Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for us. As Christ was made alive from the grave, so also our spirit is made alive in our current bodies. The person who doesn’t believe, though, he or she has a dead spirit within their body. It is there, and when it departs the body, it goes into an existence which is separated from the one who created it. The beautiful thing is, is that we can choose how we want to serve God, again, the Law of Liberty. God gifts us with spiritual gifts, and these drive our desires, the things we want to do for him and for others. We also have natural likes and dislikes that have been created in us.