“In its wake, sin will leave all of the resources necessary to perpetuate itself. Therefore, sin may lead you to believe that it has left, yet that is all part of the staying.”
“...much later I'd meet some Christians who used gun analogies about targets and missing the mark and all that. Or maybe it was about archery. Nevertheless, this analogy would be dragged out to tell us we were all blowing it and falling short. They also talked about how God was really mad at certain people because of what they believed or about the things they'd done. These Christians sounded a littld judgmental, to be honest. Looking back, though, these folks seemed dead-set on pulling the trigger more than anyone else I had met. They would find anybody who messed up or made a bad decision and get them in their sights.”
Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“For instance, do you know the story about Father on the day they first tested a bomb out at Alamogordo? After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?'
'All the best,
'Newton Hoenikker”
Source: Cat’s Cradle
“To sin is human, to lay snares is diabolical.”
“I am your favorite sin”
Source: Kingdom of the Cursed
“There is nothing I fear as much as idleness - unemployment - inertia - lethargy of the faculties - when the body is idle, the spirit suffers cruelly”
“If you're feeling lousy and you sin in an attempt to feel better, whatever pain you're feeling right now will still be there tomorrow morning, only worse.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“as soon as you eat the fruit and hit guilt, shame, frustration, the Enemy changes roles. He shifts from being the enticer and promiser to becoming the accuser and the condemner.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Condemnation comes from guilt.
Conviction is born out of grace.
Condemnation leads you to conceal your sin.
Conviction urges you to confess it.
Condemnation results in remorse (feeling bad about what you did).
Conviction calls you to repentance (turning to go the other way).
Condemnation prompts you to rededicate.
Conviction demands full surrender.
Condemnation is a path to future failure.
Conviction is a highway to real change.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Your guilt is never removed when you hide. It's only when you bring your guilt into the spotlight of Christ's grace that your sins are atoned for and your guilt is removed. In Jesus' holy, loving, and kind presence, you can say, 'Lord, I confess that I've done some wrong things. I also want to let You know that some wrong things have been done to me. These things have made me feel marred. Damaged. Hurt. I've been both a perpetrator of sin and a victim of sin. But I want Your forgiveness and Your freedom. I don't want to hide from You. I want Your eyes to see all that I've done and all that's been done to me. By Your work, the effects of sin are cancelled. By Your stripes I am healed.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...