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Being Constant in Prayer (TMF:1815)

Friday, March 25, 2022
Peace to Live By: Being Constant in Prayer (TMF:1815) - Daniel Litton
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       Lastly, let’s discuss being constant in prayer. I have put it this way before: we are to stay in continual conversation with God. We are to keep God in the forefront of our thinking. Clearly, if we are doing that, it makes it much more difficult for us to sin, right? If we always are walking around talking to God in our minds, we’ll find that we are closer and closer to him and we won't wish to sin. We’ll be praising him and thanking him for this or that, and we’ll feel better in general. It wards off demonic activity around us as we are now God-centered. Moving on. Verse 14: “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”

Having Hope for the Future, Part 2 (TMF:1814)

Thursday, March 24, 2022
Peace to Live By: Having Hope for the Future, Part 2 (TMF:1814) - Daniel Litton
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       The important thing is that you decide within yourself that this is going to be your new way of thinking from now on. The thing of it is, we know that how we think and speak, whether that is hopeless or hopeful, those thoughts and words affect what really happens in our lives. Yes, they matter. Our thoughts and words, what we believe, affects God’s ability to help us, or Satan’s ability to hurt us. And too, we can sabotage ourselves by thinking wrong thoughts. I mean, just think. If you don’t believe you will succeed, that good is going to happen for you, how can it? If you don’t believe you are good at something, there is no way you can succeed at doing it. And God can’t help you with whatever it is because you don’t believe he will. You don’t have hope. So, we have to change the inner workings of our minds from the negative to the positive in all things in order to really see successes in life. God will give us what we need to do whatever it is he wants us to do, but we need to believe that fact.

Having Hope for the Future, Part 1 (TMF:1813)

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Peace to Live By: Having Hope for the Future, Part 1 (TMF:1813) - Daniel Litton
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       Just because hope doesn’t work one, two, or even three times, that doesn’t then mean that we are to give up hope altogether, as I have witnessed many people do. I have seen people abandon a faith-filled attitude and instead take on a naturalistic, what they call ‘realistic,’ and what I call a ‘deistic’ perspective in life. These are the type of people who say, “Oh, God may do this or that. He may make this come to pass, or he may not. We simply don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see.” Instead, they should be saying, “I believe God is going to do this good thing” (whatever it is). “I believe he is on my side and wants to do it.” If you’re a person who has realized you need to change the way you think, to go from negative to positive, from expecting the worst to expecting the best, then you’re heading in the right direction. Understand, however, that this change in your thought-patterns is going to take time; it’s not something that’s going to happen quickly. Don’t let your struggle to make the change discourage you.

Giving Honor Toward Others (TMF:1812)

Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Peace to Live By: Giving Honor Toward Others (TMF:1812) - Daniel Litton
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       We show honor toward each other in such a way that he try to view others with high esteem and give them honor when the opportunity arises. I want to say here, for I really think this needs to be said, that it is sin to not show honor to people who deserve it. Yes, you can sin by what you don’t do. If God is promoting you to give someone honor, you better do it. Ignoring a good work or a person doing that work is sin. We are to rejoice in hope. If we are to rejoice in hope, we have to have hope in the first place. A lot of folks I’ve come across certainly don’t have hope. They are too negative and full of fear to have hope. Some people have been burnt so many times in their lives that they are afraid to utilize hope. I know, I use to have that kind of attitude myself. But everyone needs to have hope. It’s not wrong to have faith for the future, and even on the occasion that what we desire to happen doesn’t work out or come to pass, then we should start anticipating good in something else.

Letting Our Love Be Genuine (TMF:1811)

Monday, March 21, 2022
Peace to Live By: Letting Our Love Be Genuine (TMF:1811) - Daniel Litton
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       Verse 9: “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.” I’m not going to go over every one one of Paul’s points here, but let’s go over some of them. Notice that love is not a legalistic thing. We are to love with a genuine love, and not unwillingly or begrudgingly. We all love different people, and it’s actually not our responsibility to love every single person within our church. Truly, that would kill us if we tried. We are to call sin for what it is, sin. That doesn’t mean we are faultfinders among church members. That’s not what we’re called to do. We don’t like sin, especially the big sins, and we don’t tolerate those sins within our own lives.