“Can any one of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?”
Matthew 6:27
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All true following of Christ begins with faith, or we might almost say that following is faith, for we find our Lord substituting the former expression for the latter... ‘I am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not walk in darkness.’ The two ideas are not equivalent, but faith is the condition of following; and following is the outcome and test, because it is the operation, of faith. None but they who trust Him will follow Him. He who does not follow, does not trust. To follow Christ, means to long and strive after His companionship... It means the submission of the will, the effort of the whole nature, the daily conflict to reproduce His example, the resolute adoption of His command as my law, His providence as my will, His fellowship as my joy. And the root and beginning of all such following is in coming to Him, conscious of mine own darkness, and trustful in His great light. We must rely on a Guide before we accept His directions; and it is absurd to pretend that we trust Him, if we do not go as He bids us. So ‘Follow thou Me’ is, in a very real sense, the sum of all Christian duty.
Alexander MacLaren
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You know what my toxic trait is?
Overthinking…
I overthink things that are not in my control… I overthink things that are not my problem… I overthink situations that I need to trust in the process…
~yoursubmissive46
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Frustration is one of the worst feelings there is, because it doesn't work on its own. Frustration usually brings sadness, anger and discouragement. And I'm not going to be hypocritical, even knowing God's care for me, sometimes it's hard not to surrender to it all.
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“His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 
And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
Matthew 28:3, 5-6 KJV
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We accept a man’s words when we trust the man. Even if belief, or faith, is represented in the New Testament– as it very rarely is– as having for its object the words of revelation, behind that acceptance of the words lies confidence in the person speaking. And the beginning of all true Christian faith has in it, not merely the intellectual acceptance of certain propositions as true, but a confidence in the veracity of Him by whom they are made known to us– even Jesus Christ our Lord. [Realizing this, what I] wish to emphasise is, that from the very starting-point, the smallest germ of the most rudimentary and imperfect faith which knits a soul to Jesus Christ has Him for its Object, and is thus distinguished from the mere acceptance of truths which, on other grounds than the authority of the speaker, may legitimately commend themselves to a man... the least and the lowest that Jesus Christ asks from us is the entire and unhesitating acceptance of His utterances as final, conclusive, and absolutely true. Whatever more Jesus Christ may be, He is, by His life and words, the Communicator of divine and certain truth. He is a Teacher, though He is a great deal more. And whatever more Christian faith may be– and it is a great deal more– it requires, at least, the frank and full recognition of the authority of every word that comes from His lips. A Christianity without a creed is a dream, [for] ‘Believe Me’ is His requirement. The words of His mouth, and the revelations which He has made in the sweetness of His life, and in all the graciousness of His dealings, are the very unveiling to man of absolute and final and certain truth.
Alexander MacLaren
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My God is one of miracles.
One who never stops working.
One who keeps his promises.
My God paves the way.
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For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
🙋🕊️📖Rom 10:13-14 kjav📖🕊️🙋
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