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So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves…
Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.
Scripture is full of imperfect, fearful warriors and champions—men and women who didn’t quite fit in or immediately stand out.
Perhaps this has happened to you. After a worship service, someone asks to have a few words with you. When you sit down together, those “few words” turn out to be powerful and troubling.
1. Prayer Doesn’t Always “Work”
If God is like Santa Claus, and prayer is a way of asking for things, then you’re going to experience a roller-coaster ride of emotions as your expectations are met and missed.
Last spring, a hollow root, twenty yards from the maple tree it once supplied with nutrients, caught fire from the small brush pile burning in our front yard.
When I was 20 years old, my life was destroyed in a single night. Does that sound overly dramatic? After all, I didn’t actually die, or I wouldn’t be writing this article.
