Family Structure Is Important For Your Children

The world today seems to be so hectic that families don’t seem to have the quality time to spend together. Family structure needs to be a priorty on our list. Children need the security and foundation of a loving and healthy family that they can depend on when they are needed the most. This is one of the best gifts that parents can give their children. Children should be provided the safety of a home in their family life that they feel secure in.

It’s not that difficult to provide a safe and happy environment for your children. You can start today, the following should be of some help. Let your children know that they can come to you with their problems and concerns. Make them feel at ease and not afraid to discuss any matter that they may need help with. When they do come to you, put them first, don’t make them feel that they are bothering you. This is one way that healthy families bond together.

Always be honest with each other in your family, it is the only way a family can operate smoothly. Family structure depends on trust. Your children need be taught how to communicate openly, this will also help them to talk about things to their teachers in school and many others that they come into contact later on in life.

Be a good listener to your children and stoop down to their level so that you are face to face with them. It’s important that you listen to them cheerfully and not like it is a bother. Always have compassion for your family members and help them

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In Pursuit Of Happiness To End The Darkness

In times of hardships and tragedies, usually our first reaction is to start worrying or fear the unknown. Our carnal mind always wants to look at the negative side of our problems and situations. Our minds start to become very imaginative and produce bad thoughts and delusions.

Before I go any further I would just like to state that the flesh and our carnal minds are corrupt. They want the things of the world, the pleasures and everything that is opposite of what God wants for us. For those that are on a spiritual journey, you know the battles that you have with the flesh on a daily basis.

Our imagination can produce some pretty grim outcomes of any hardship that we may be experiencing at the time. We can also latch on to these fabricated thoughts of doom, shut down our well-being and start entering the darkness of worrying.

We have to stop these thoughts quickly before they have a chance to grow. We need to train our minds to switch over to a more positive way of thinking. We can’t predict the outcome of the future and what it holds for us. We just have to keep strong in our faith and believe that God knows what is best for us.

When we accepted Jesus Christ, we were supposed to renounce our life and will and turn it over to God. After all, isn’t this why we sought Jesus Christ to begin with? Wasn’t our lives meaningless, empty and missing something? We certainly don’t know what is best for us or how to manage our lives in a way that meets God’s will.

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In Pursuit Of Happiness To End The Darkness

In times of hardships and tragedies, usually our first reaction is to start worrying or fear the unknown. Our carnal mind always wants to look at the negative side of our problems and situations. Our minds start to become very imaginative and produce bad thoughts and delusions.

Before I go any further I would just like to state that the flesh and our carnal minds are corrupt. They want the things of the world, the pleasures and everything that is opposite of what God wants for us. For those that are on a spiritual journey, you know the battles that you have with the flesh on a daily basis.

Our imagination can produce some pretty grim outcomes of any hardship that we may be experiencing at the time. We can also latch on to these fabricated thoughts of doom, shut down our well-being and start entering the darkness of worrying.

We have to stop these thoughts quickly before they have a chance to grow. We need to train our minds to switch over to a more positive way of thinking. We can’t predict the outcome of the future and what it holds for us. We just have to keep strong in our faith and believe that God knows what is best for us.

When we accepted Jesus Christ, we were supposed to renounce our life and will and turn it over to God. After all, isn’t this why we sought Jesus Christ to begin with? Wasn’t our lives meaningless, empty and missing something? We certainly don’t know what is best for us or how to manage our lives in a way that meets God’s will.

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Supporting Christian Youth Programs, Organizations and Youth Centers

When it comes to our youth these days, they seem to be having problems at school and in the home. These problems arise from many different circumstances. A lot of devout Christians think that it could be because there just isn’t enough faith and support. If you may be one of these Christians, then consider giving up some of your time or help support the needs of these youths with donations.

If you are considering on helping, you can start by looking into some of the Christian organizations that are setup for youths. There are many programs and organizations out there, but a majority of them are setup to address adult issues. Youths need to be reached at an early age when they are young and not truly set in their ways. It may be more difficult to reach them after they become an adult.

You may already be aware of this, but the formats for these Christian youth programs are setup in a number of different ways. You can find these youth programs locally, nationally or on the internet. By using the internet to reach out to the youths, you are not limited to the area in which you live in.

With the internet being global, you have a much broader audience to capture. You can also reach out to them by creating a website or blog and post numerous articles and resources will be at their disposal, or you can join many of the different social networking sites and forums that are available.

The best place to start would be in your local community. You can gain experience

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Sheltered In The Arms Of God – Protection From Our Enemies

Psalm 18: 1-3, ‘I love you God, my strength (my Saviour, you rescue me from violence). God is my rock and my bastion, my deliverer is my God. I take shelter (trust) in Him, my rock, my shield, my horn of salvation, my stronghold and my refuge. From violence you rescue me. He is to be praised; on God I call and am saved from my enemies.’

In these days of unsettling times, we can’t trust our security to man (or anytime for that matter). Whether it would be our job, the government, to teach us truth or to save us from our enemies. The United States and England are sister nations to Israel. God blessed all three of these nations abundantly.

Things have changed and so have the people of these once God fearing nations. God’s wrath is about to be poured down upon these nations like man has never seen before and it has already started. It is because the people have turned their backs on God, rebelled against Him.

God has once protected these nations from their enemies, but all that is soon to be changed. These nations are going to fall and fall hard they will. Haven’t these three nations learned anything from the Old Testament? History does repeat itself. While many will still choose to not heed these warnings, some will and they will be sheltered in the arms of God.

God is a patient God and He will release His punishment slowly, but man is to blind and stubborn. Man would rather die grabbing hold and clutching the very things that brought to him his destruction,

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Is Your Hope For Change In God Or Man

Where in the world are we placing our hope these days? It seems that man is placing their hope for change everywhere but the right place. Let’s find out just where man has been placing their hope.

We take our hope and place it in something with a vision in our mind thinking that this is what the outcome is going to be. Our imagination can run wild and believe that men can make a change and give us a better life than what God has to offer. Ask yourself this, “Has man ever given you happiness, joy, peace and love that will last forever?” Can man give you eternal life? Can man give you protection from your enemies?

No, man cannot give you any of these things and neither can the world. Yet, people continue to place their hope and trust in man like they are some miracle worker. For example, a politician starts a campaign by promising to change this, that and everything else for the common welfare of the people. Since people are easily mis-led, the politicians professionally written speeches tickle the ears of many people. The more the people listen, the more their hope grows in them.

You can see what happens when people place their hope in man, the administration that is controlling the government in the United States these days is doing nothing for the people. People are losing their houses with no end in sight, unemployment is still growing and the banks are taking advantage of the situation. The majority of the people put their hope in one man and this is what they

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Choose Life

Who are we to destroy what God has formed in the womb?

Since when did God give us the right to decide whether a baby lives or dies? From what I can tell, scripture repeatedly states that God forms us while we are in the womb. Isaiah 44: 2, “Thus says God who made you, who formed you from the womb.” Isaiah 44: 24, “Thus says God, your redeemer, He who formed you in the womb; I, Myself, God, made all things.”

So who are we to destroy what God has formed in the womb? Have we become so de-sensitized that women are even using abortion as a form of birth control? Let’s look at some statistics on abortions.

From a Department of Health study, reported by the Daily Mail that dozens of girls at the age of 12 and 13, are having abortions regularly. In England, girls under 14 that were having abortions rose 21 percent from 2006 to 2007. At the same time, girls under 16 that were having abortions rose 10 percent. Also in England, repeat abortions were on the rise dramatically.

The Daily Mail said that there were over 64,000 repeat abortions just in the last year. In this same year, over 40 women terminated over 8 pregnancies each. Girls, below the age of 18, terminated four or more pregnancies between 2005 and 2008. The number of abortions performed on teenage girls since 1991 has risen 70 percent, stunning isn’t it?

Parents are turning away from their duties and they are causing irreparable harm to their children. If you notice these days, so many of our children are

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Who Is Teaching You?

Teachers and Preachers – Who Are These People?

There is just way to much to learn that man cannot teach you. People have lots of questions like, “Who is God”, What is “spiritual healing”, “What is communicating with God”, “Why was Jesus crucified”, “Who is the Holy Spirit”, or “What does God look like”? Have you answered questions like these yourself by seeking truth, or does someone answer them for you?

This time period that we are living in, we have to be extra careful. There are many preachers and teachers that do not teach Truth, nor do they know what Truth is. You may think that what they teach and preach is true, but really, how do you know? Can they give you a good reason why you should believe what they teach like, the works of their faith for instance?

How do you know that the Bible is true? Have you proven it by working the scriptures? Why do you believe what you read, or what other people tell you? Could it be because they have a title like, pastor, priest, reverend, a member of the clergy, or teacher? Could be because they are in a building called a “church”, where they teach the Bible and preach sermons. Some pastors have a book that they can take a sermon from which relieves them from having to prepare one.

I have heard some things come out of teachers and preachers mouthes that just totally blew me away. Always seek the truth in what you hear, that way you’re not being led down the wrong path. Jesus always gives you a confirmation (and usually more

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Why Do You Hate Me My Brothers and Sisters?

Hate Is That Darkness Of Our Pride

This is a common question some people may ask themselves or just out right in the open like a rap song my daughter showed me. Some people see hate that is directed towards them whether it is because of race, culture, beliefs in religion, a disability, over-weight or just an average Joe that people pick on because they may be different and so they ask, “Why do you hate me?”

What Is Hate?

Hate is a very powerful emotion, so powerful that it can cause someone’s feelings to be hurt all the way up to rioting, genocide, terrorism and war. Hate is the opposite of love and hate can come in many different forms like mocking someone, putting someone down, talking ill will about someone behind their back, being spiteful, laughing at someone when they are down, resentments, anger, violence, cruelty, having it in for someone, informing on people, pointing out bad traits about people and the list goes on and on.

All of this comes from a person’s pride. All it takes is for someone to be affected by another’s looks, actions, the way they live, work or even their skin color to spark that darkness of hate that comes from a person’s pride. A person’s pride is touched when they see or hear something that they disagree with.

We all have this pilot light inside of us that lights the burner when something we see as negative begins to ire us. Our imagination starts to go to work and we start to picture and dream up all these negative thoughts and these thoughts start to burn inside of us causing us to get upset or feel anger. We can either keep these feelings and thoughts inside of us until we decide to calm down or we can exhaust them in a hateful way. Either way they do damage to us or others.

A Very Unhealthy Emotion

When the calmness that we all like to feel inside of us begins to stir, we start to become stressed. Stress has an affect on every part of our body, mind and soul. It has an affect on our heart, blood pressure, and immune system, it can cause headaches, fatigue, back pain and upset your digestive system, just as well as our moods. We can suffer from anxiety, irritability, inability to sleep well which causes us to be cranky and not being able to perform to our full potental. These are just a few things that people can experience when they practice hate.

Why Hate and Not Love?

What is it that causes us to think, talk and act in a destructive way? Why can’t we just be happy and love one another for who they are, what they are and how they may act? Love can change people and the world. It seems that we just let our pride get the best of us like putting the blame on others for everything.

We can take control of our happiness by looking for the positive things in people and trying to bring out the good in our brothers and sisters. It all begins with us as an individual whether you are the first one to say hello, or smile or maybe even overlook someone else’s faults. Don’t forget, we are not

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Who Is God and Why Do We Say God Works In Mysterious Ways?

What Is The Mystery Behind God?

I’m sure that you’ve heard that term over and over again, “God works in mysterious ways.” To be honest with you, there is nothing mysterious about God or the things that He does and even in the things that happen. The problem is, is that people just don’t get to know Him.

God will not reveal Himself to just anyone, He keeps carnal man at a distance because man is corrupt in his own nature. You see, it takes the receiving of the Holy Spirit before we can become in union with God and through the Holy Spirit, God will teach us all about Himself.

In order for us to receive the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, we have to purify ourselves. Our bodies are like temples, they house our soul. When our souls are corrupt by our own carnal self then they are impure, dirty, full of things of the word, sin and they are unholy. When it comes to the Holy Spirit which is pure and Holy, the Holy Spirit cannot reside within our self because of all the darkness that inhibits our soul.

How Do We Purify Ourselves?
It takes Jesus Christ to show us the way to purifying ourselves. That’s why we need to call on Him and build a one on one relationship with Him. What matters most is that we have to have a burning desire to do this, we are going to have to make a commitment to do this and it has to come from our heart in a sincere way. Once you start on that road with Jesus, there’s no turning back.

The road is long and a laborous one at that, it will take a lot of work and learning to strip ourselves of our shortcomings and character defects. Jesus will be right there as He guides us along the way. It’s a road that must be traveled without fear, worries or doubts, but by faith. As Jesus says, “Renounce your life, take up your cross and follow me.” We are going to need this cross to nail our flesh to.

When we reach a certain point in our journey, Jesus will circumcise our flesh, strip away the things of the flesh that cause us to be worldly beings. Then our soul can go through the fire and have all the dross burned off and become pure. Your carnal eyes close and your spiritual eyes open. In 1 Peter 4:12, Dearly beloved, think not strange the burning heat which is to try you, as if some new thing happened to you.

Once this has happened, then as Jesus says in John 14:16, 17, “I shall ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever, that Spirit of Truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you.”

Then you begin on a spiritual journey to learn spiritual things and most important, about God. You’ll begin to understand all about God and you’ll find that He is not as mysterious as they claim Him to be. May God Bless You

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