We often limit God by assuming He is subject to the laws of science. He is not. These laws explain how God, the Creator and Sustainer of all creation, normally works with His material creation (2 Pet 3:4, JNTC note). In Mk 6:41 Jesus took a few fish and a little bread and reproduced it by breaking it. This was an act of creation which was clearly different from our current laws of science as we now understand them.
If we reflect on this, it should inspire us to pray big prayers. It should motivate us to learn more about the spirit world and how it works. Perhaps we will never need to walk on water but what about praying for miraculous financial provision? One widow in the Old Testament had oil and flour multiply as she was obedient to a specific God-given directive (1 Ki 17:12-16). Another had oil multiply so she could pay her bills (2 Ki 4:1-7). These, too, were creative acts contrary to our laws of science. There is something in all these examples which is profound and which probably will become far more important in the desperate last days before the return of Christ.
Furthermore, since there are evil spirits who oppose God and seek to mislead humans (2 Cor 2:11), some miracles by these evil spirits are intended to ‘corroborate’ rebellion against God (2 Thess 2:9). It can sometimes be easy to misunderstand whether it was God or an evil spirit who did something (Job 1:12 with verse 16; 2 Cor 11:13-15). However, let us not reject what is good because we are too lazy to carefully assess or too afraid to possibly encounter something that is bad.
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.