[Faith-talk] Fwd: Today's Turning Point with David Jeremiah

[eric calhoun]

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> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 06:00:36 -0600 (CST)
> From: Turning Point
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> Subject: Today's Turning Point with David Jeremiah
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> Today's Turning Point
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> Wednesday, January 9
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> An Unnatural Choice
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> You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
> therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the
> oil of gladness more than Your companions.
> Psalm 45:7
> 
> Recommended Reading
> Matthew 3:16-17
> 
> People who live exclusively in one culture live much
> of their life subconsciously. That is, they are so
> used to the ways and traditions of their homeland
> that they don't have to think before acting. But
> when they go to another culture to visit or to live,
> every choice is a conscious one because everything
> is new. They have left their natural state and are
> living in an unnatural one.
> 
> Jesus' "culture" was one of intimate fellowship with
> the Holy Spirit. From eternity past, He had lived
> with the Father and the Spirit in heaven; and when
> He came to earth, that relationship continued. He
> was human and had to submit to the Spirit, but He
> had no sin nature that battled against the Spirit.
> Not so with us. Our sinful, fleshly nature is not
> naturally at home with the Spirit. So, moment by
> moment, we have to choose to obey Paul's command to
> "be filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). Jesus
> is our example, but the choice is ours.
> 
> Choose today to be filled with the Spirit. It is a
> humanly unnatural choice, but one that your new,
> Christlike nature will gladly agree with.
> 
> God commands us to be filled with the Spirit; and if
> we are not filled, it is because we are living
> beneath our privileges.
> D. L. Moody
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> Read-Thru-the-Bible
> Genesis 27:18 - 29:35
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