“For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”–Romans 5:7-8 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be …
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“You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”-James 4:4 “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.”-Philippians 3:7 My home with my family When I …
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“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”-Genesis 2:24 Extreme loneliness When my father first raped me twenty years ago, I was 5, and had nearly no knowledge of how profoundly this would affect me. Aside from all the guilt, shame, …
Recognizing the spirit of death “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”-1 Cor. 15:54-55 Death is an enemy. He is the root of all fear, anxiety, stress, and despair. According to Revelation 6, Death can be a person, possibly an evil spirit or angelic …
“Chosen” as a poet When I was 16 or 17, I was desperately trying to find the meaning of life. Since I was well-fed by the lie that God hated me, with my broken and then hardened heart, I was seeking to establish my self-value through some achievement. As a girl who loved literature, I …
“My people enquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.” – Hosea 4:12 How the demon entered Both before and after I came to Christ, I always thought prostitution was far …
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