Spiritual persons have the Holy Spirit and the mind of Christ. Those who are not spiritual cannot properly evaluate them. For that matter, Christians who are not directed by the Spirit will often not accurately assess spiritual persons and matters. This is because a correct analysis of believers does not compare them to others but relies on how the Lord sees them.
How, then, does the Lord view believers? We are His garden (1 Cor 3:9, Barclay), His valued possession (Dt 7:6, NBV), His honored guest (Ps 23:5, TEV), His work of art (Eph 2:10, JB), His poem (Eph 2:10, Montgomery note), and His masterpiece (Eph 2:10, NLT). In addition, we are God’s jeweled crown (Isa 62:3, CW), His most prized possession (Mal 3:17, NJB), and His inheritance (Eph 1:11). The Lord says we are His dear one (SS 1:9, Moffatt), His true love (SS 5:2, GW), His beloved (Rom 9:25, NAB), His darling (SS 2:10), His faultless dove (SS 5:2, Tanakh), His delightful one (SS 2:13, GW), His exceedingly beautiful one (Isa 62:3, AB-1st), His undefiled one (SS 6:9, NBV), His perfect one (SS 5:2, ESV), His fiancée (2 Cor 11L2), His bride (SS 5:1), His royal spouse (SS 1:2, NLT), and His friend (Jn 15:14-15).
We have royal status (Rev 1:9) and are the objects of His special affection (TNT note on 1 Pet 2:9). Angels are assigned to us (Mt 18:10) because we are His people, His renown, His praise, His beauty (Jer 13:11). He values us greatly. When we think as the Lord does, we will greatly value others and ourselves.
We may avoid enriching commitments because they are costly.
We need to increasingly be delivered from error, unnecessary evil, and the evil one.
by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
A ‘hopeless’ spouse doesn’t mean a hopeless marriage. Have you ever felt hopeless about your marriage improving because it seems that your spouse is unwilling to change? You don’t think your marriage can get better because you believe your spouse is hopelessly unwilling to change – and you assume that their changing is necessary for marital improvement to begin. That assumption is wrong.
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by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
Daily Christian Living is set up to be a daily two-minute Bible study on one of over 275 topics about how to live the Christian life. It includes passage insights from about 50 translations, top commentaries or language aides, quotes, and stories from famous people. All this is geared to answer the question, ‘How then, should I live?’ In two short minutes, you learn great things from the Bible that many people don’t know with wonderful applications about how to live.
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by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
Have you ever wondered how to get the most out of your Bible reading? Do you want deeper insight into the meaning of the Lord’s Prayer? This book covers five key ways of interpreting the Bible that will enrich your understanding of it. Many other ways to better understand the Bible are explained in an appendix.
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by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
God’s 40 hints are taken from the Old Testament book, The Song of Songs. The Song depicts the kind of marital lovemaking the Lord wants His saved couples to experience. By looking at the key characteristics of marital sex the couple in the Song displays, we can understand what to do to vastly improve our own marital lovemaking.
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by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
It is so easy to be insensitive to the very many ways we are rude to our spouse. Jesus said that the key problem in marriage is hardness of heart (Mt 19:8). This book addresses the great need to recognize many of the ways we are rude and gives us ideas for how to display better manners toward our spouse. It is vital that we improve our manners in marriage. Small changes can eventually have great results.
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by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
Discover tools to answer many of the burning questions we all face each and everyday. It is not enough just to make a flippant decision on daily matters whether large or small. God has a specific plan for our life that involves listening to Him and making sound judgement.
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by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
We know the enemy’s strategies for ruining our lives. He will attack our vulnerabilities, but if we can identify what those are and prepare ourselves, we may avoid ourselves and family through unnecessary pain and anguish.
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by Dr. Mark Avery Reed
Too many people live their lives in a very general manner - believing that as long as they do “good” things and try their best they are fulfilling God’s plan for their life. However, that is not how Jesus lived, and it is not how we should live either. We are to be directed by the Spirit on a day in, day out basis.
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Instead of being timid, learn to be appropriately bold.