Have Your Cake and Eat It Too!!

Have Your Cake...Eat It Too!!

Being pleasing to God and approved by men! Can you really eat your cake and still have it? We live in a world where we are told that we deserve to have our cake and eat it too and eat our cake and always have it.

Romans 14:16-18

God calls us to a life that is suppose to be set apart from the world. We are suppose to be different than the people around us. This does not mean that we are sinless or that we should become judgmental. Our example should be should should lead others to God.

How can I be pleasing to God and approved by men! Living a life that pleases God does not mean that I am judgmental of the world. I will never have the impact for God and be approved by men if I am self righteous and judgmental. Jesus had compassion on the world and yet he called them to live a better life!

The ingredients to spiritual cake: R+P+J (HS) = Cake

Righteousness
Peace
Joy
Holy Spirit

Stuff can make you happy temporarily but it can never make you joyful. We need the right ingredients to make the cake that God intends for us to make. We need to follow Gods recipe in order to create the life that God intends for us to create.

The world is trying to sell me counterfeit cake!. It is possible to please God and be approved by men! How to please God and be approved by men?

Romans 12:1-2
Philippians 4:18
Colossians 3:20
Hebrews 13:21

What am I pursing in my life? What are my priorities? Are they inline with Gods priorities? Everyday I am facing two options. The cake that God is offering or the cake that the world is offering. One is everlasting and fully satisfying, the other is temporary and leaves me empty and unfulfilled.





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The Power of Spiritual Thinking

The Power of Spiritual Thinking

The Power of Positive Thinking

THe statement of "The power of positive thinking" Does not include God but it does not exclude God either. God calls us to positive spiritual thinking and God gives us great power in positive thinking. Positive thinking alone is not enough without God.

What happens to positive thinking when life deals us negativity? Spiritual thinking addresses the positive and negative in our lives

Ephesians 4:17-19

Sin darkens our understanding. Sin breeds darkness and dark times that engulfs us in negativity and death. Sin creates confusion as well. Spiritual thinking provides clarity!

Sin breeds and leads to more sin. Sins progression if left unchecked will lead us to complete darkness.

Ephesians 4:20-24

Jesus brightens! Jesus shines brightness into every dark corner! Vs. 23 -- we need to renew our minds through Jesus! We start in darkness and have to search for Jesus and follow the light in order to get out of the darkness.

Through Jesus we are recreated. Jesus has taken something broken and made it anew!

Ephesians 4:25-32

Vs 25 "therefore" is a transition that makes us look back and see that it is because of Jesus and the light that he brings to our lives!

What I feed my soul is what is going to come out in my life. If I feed my heart the word of God and if I feast on Jesus and his goodness then my life will show good things, positive things!