Tuesday, August 4, 2026

YOU ARE LOVE, NOT SELFISH. LOVE IS THE NATURE OF GOD

 Most Christians think walking in love means trying harder to be nice... but that's not what the Bible teaches. 

You are not trying to become a loving person. You ARE a loving person-because you are born of God. 

In this powerful teaching,  you'll discover: 

The difference between the old nature and the new nature 

• Why selfishness is the root of all sin 

• What it really means to walk in love 

• How to stop struggling and start living from your identity 

• Why love is the most powerful force in the universe 

This message will shift your mindset from effort to identity.


     Most Christians think walking in love means trying really hard to be nice to people. But that's not what the Bible teaches. 

    Walking in love is not about trying to love. It's about walking in the new nature you already have. You're not trying to become a loving person. 

   In fact, you are a loving person because you're born of God and God is love. 

   So the problem is most believers are still living from the old nature, the nature of selfishness. 

And until you understand the difference between these two natures, you'll spend your whole Christian life fighting a battle you've already won. 

   "Selfishness is as deadly as poison. It is poison to the spirit. It is poison to the body of Christ. 

   Selfishness is the nature of the old man and the man who died with Christ. But love is the nature of the new creation. On the man you are in Christ. And when you finally understand this, you'll stop trying to love and you'll start living from love. 

   Today, we're going to examine the greatest challenge every believer faces. The battle between love and selfishness,  the battle between the old nature and the new nature. 

   And I'm going to show you that walking in love is not about effort. It's about identity

   It's not about what you do. It's about who you are. Let me start with the hardest truth you'll hear today. 

     Selfishness is the cause of everything wrong in this world. Every war, every strike, every battle between labor and capital, every divorce, every church split, every broken friendship, it all comes from selfishness. 

 That thing born in the garden has grown so mighty that it governs the nations of the earth. And love is the only thing that can destroy it. Think about that. 

    Selfishness was born in the Garden of Eden when Adam chose himself over God. 

 And that selfish nature has been passed down through every human being ever born. It's the root of sin. It's the root of death. It's the root of every evil thing in this world. And here's what's shocking. Most Christians don't even fear it. They fear selfishness in other people, but not in themselves. 

 They can see it operating in their spouse, in their boss, in their pastor, but they're blind to it in their own hearts. But when you were born again,  something radical happened. You didn't just get forgiven of selfishness. You got a brand new nature. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new." That old selfish nature died. And a new love nature was created inside you. You're not trying to become loving. 

 You already are loving because you're born of Love Himself. 

 But here's the problem. Most Christians don't know this. So they keep living from the old nature even though the old nature is dead. They keep operating in selfishness even though they have a love nature living inside them. And that's why their Christian life is such a struggle. They're trying to live like Jesus Christ while still operating from the nature of Adam. 

 1 John 4:16 says, "God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him." Did you catch that? God is love, not God has love. God is love. 

 And when you were born again, you were born of God. That means you were born of love. You didn't just receive love. You became love because you're a partaker of the divine nature. The same nature that is love.

 Now let me show you what this means practically. When love becomes the rule of your life, selfishness stops reigning. And when selfishness stops reigning, everything changes, your marriage changes, your business changes, your friendships change, your ministry changes because you're no longer operating from what can I get. You're operating from what can I give. 

 "When love is at white heat, selfishness stops raining." 

    At white heat, that means when love is fully activated in your life. When you're walking in the fullness of your new nature, selfishness has no power. It can't control you anymore because you're not living from the flesh. You're living from the spirit. See, you're not living from the old man. You're living from the new creation. Let me give you an example from apostle Paul's life. 

 2 Corinthians 5:14 says, "For the love of Christ constrainth us." The word constrainth means has gained control or has taken us over. Apostle Paul's friends thought he was crazy. They said he was beside himself. 

    But the love of Christ had so set him on fire that he was slowly burning up. His very being was saturated with the passion that drove Jesus to the cross. 

    And that's what happens when you walk in love. You stop living for yourself and you start living for others. I 

Monday, August 3, 2026

Scripture calls the word of God the sword of the spirit. And now I understand why

  And that changes everything. I used to believe that most spiritual battles happened outside of me, situations, circumstances, people. But l've learned that some of the fiercest wars are fought in silence within the private corridors of the mind. And the weapon God gave me to win them is not louder effort or sharper arguments, it is truth. Scripture calls the word of God the sword of the spirit. 

 And now I understand why. When fear creeps in like fog, when lies hiss in the dark like old serpents, it is not emotion or opinion that silences them. 

 It is the voice of God spoken through a mind that has been trained by His Word. 

 There was a time when the enemy had easy access to my thoughts. He knew where I was vulnerable. Where doubt ran like water and fear made its home. But the more I repeated scripture, the more those old pathways were replaced. The lies still knock, but now they find locked doors. 

Truth is my new security system. 

A scripture-shaped mind does not mean I never struggle.

 It means my response is no longer instinctively panic, but peace. Not automatic worry, but trust, not confusion, but discernment.

 Understand that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. 

 And I've come to believe the same is true of truth. When truth is tested in battle, it becomes light. And that light builds something stronger than defense. It builds fortitude. Something remarkable happens when the mind is renewed by truth. Others begin to feel it. My peace becomes a refuge for the anxious. My clarity helps steady the confused. My courage gives hope to the weary. 

Without preaching a word, a quiet, truth anchored mind becomes a lighthouse. A mind rebuilt by God's Word is not merely protected. It is powerful. 

 A fortress of light cannot be easily shaken. And now when the shadows rise, I do not fear them. I reach for the truth already written within me. 

Looking back, I can see it now. God was not only healing my heart. He was quietly rebuilding my mind. The transformation didn't arrive with lightning or noise. 

 It came like morning light, steady and faithful, rising through repetition and surrender. Old thought patterns that once felt immovable are beginning to weaken. New ones rooted in peace, truth, and grace are taking their place.

 This is the sacred work God has invited me into. Not to force my mind into instant holiness, but to cooperate with His Word, one repeated truth at a time.

 I no longer define myself by the thoughts I used to think.

 I am not the sum of my anxious spirals, my regrets, or the lies I once believed. 

I am not the voice that whispers, "You'll never change." 

I am a soul being renewed, a mind being rewired, a heart  being restored by the hand of the one who made me. 

 "The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men." And I would add, the slowness of God is wiser than the rush of the world. 

 His Word does not crash into the mind. It moves like water over stone, patient, gentle, and utterly transformative. 

There are days I stil wrestle with my thoughts. But I no longer fear them. I no longer bow to their power because now I carry something stronger than repetition. I carry truth. And truth is not fragile. 

 It does not flinch when tested. It stands. And when I stand in it, I do too. Repetition is not religious   striving. It is faithfulness.  It is saying, "Lord, I believe you again today, even when yesterday's faith felt 23:11 thin. Imusic] It is choosing to speak light into the dark, even when my emotions haven't caught up yet." 

23:17 Renewal, l've come to learn, is not an event. It is daily cooperation with grace. So tonight, as I quiet my thoughts once more, I whisper what has become my daily prayer. Renew my mind, Lord. Not just so I can think better, but so I can live freer, love deeper, walk stronger, so I can reflect the mind of Christ, not only in what I believe, but in who l am becoming. And if you walk with me through these pages, I hope you feel it too. That quiet stirring, that invitation. 

 Because the God who authored your soul is also the one shaping your mind. He is not finished. He is not in a hurry. And he is not discouraged by your process.

One repeated truth at a time. He is forming something new in you. A mind marked by clarity, peace, resilience, and hope. This is the miracle already happening even now. Not by might, not by striving, but by the gentle repetition of truth again and again until it becomes who you are.






reframed it with revelation knowledge from God

 When my mind might have been overtaken by weakness, I reframed it with revelation. When I am weak, then l am strong. That sentence did not  emerge from comfort. It was carved in hardship, shaped by grace, and it redefined the thoughts that could have otherwise defined me. 

I've had to learn to speak scripture into my mental spirals. 

When fear says,"What if everything falls apart?" I answer with,  "The Lord is my refuge and strength, an everpresent help in trouble." 

When shame says you'll never be enough, I respond, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

And when regret whispers, you should have done better, I remind myself. His mercies are new every morning

This is not self-help. It is spiritual survival. 

 Repetition becomes my rescue line. Each scripture I speak is like stepping off the old path and into a new one. 

One carved by truth, not trauma. There is a quiet brilliance in how God 


[Ukrainian] Коли мій розум міг опанувати слабкість, я переосмислив його з одкровенням. Коли я слабкий, тоді я сильний. Це речення не виникло з комфорту. Воно було вирізьблене у труднощах, сформоване благодаттю, і воно переосмислило думки, які інакше могли б визначити мене.


Мені довелося навчитися вмовляти Святе Письмо у свої ментальні спіралі.


Коли страх каже: «А що, як все розвалиться?», я відповідаю: «Господь — мій притулок і сила, завжди присутня допомога в біді».


Коли сором каже, що тебе ніколи не буде достатньо, я відповідаю: «Тепер немає осуду для тих, хто в Христі Ісусі».


А коли жаль шепоче, що тобі слід було зробити краще, я нагадую собі. Його милість нова щоранку.


Це не самодопомога. Це духовне виживання.


Повторення стає моїм рятівним колом. Кожен уривок з Писання, який я промовляю, ніби сходжу зі старого шляху на новий.


 Висічений правдою, а не травмою. Є тиха блискучість у тому, як Бог


[Russian] Когда мой разум мог быть охвачен слабостью, я переосмысливал это с помощью откровения. Когда я слаб, тогда я силен. Эта фраза не родилась из комфорта. Она была высечена в трудностях, сформирована благодатью и переопределила мысли, которые могли бы иначе определить меня.


Мне пришлось научиться вкладывать смысл Священного Писания в свои ментальные спирали.


Когда страх говорит: «А что, если все рухнет?», я отвечаю: «Господь — мое убежище и сила, всегдашняя помощь в беде».


Когда стыд говорит, что ты никогда не будешь достаточно хорош, я отвечаю: «Нет осуждения тем, кто во Христе Иисусе».


И когда сожаление шепчет: «Ты должен был поступить лучше», я напоминаю себе: «Его милость обновляется каждое утро».


Это не самопомощь. Это духовное выживание.


Повторение становится моей спасательной линией. Каждое слово из Писания, которое я произношу, подобно шагу со старого пути на новый.


Путь, проложенный истиной, а не травмой. В том, как Бог... есть тихое сияние.


[Simplified Chinese] 当我的心智可能被软弱所吞噬时,我用启示重塑它。当我软弱时,我反而刚强。这句话并非出自安逸,而是在苦难中镌刻,在恩典中塑造,它重新定义了那些原本可能定义我的念头。


我不得不学会用经文来驱散内心的漩涡。


当恐惧说:“如果一切都崩溃了怎么办?”我回答说:“耶和华是我的避难所,是我的力量,是我在患难中随时的帮助。”


当羞愧说你永远不够好时,我回应说,如今在基督耶稣里的人不再被定罪。


当悔恨低语:“你本可以做得更好”时,我提醒自己:他的怜悯每日更新。


这不是自助,而是属灵的生存之道。


重复成了我的救命稻草。我诵读的每一段经文,都如同踏出旧路,踏上新路。


 那是由真理而非创伤雕琢而成的。上帝的作为中蕴含着一种静谧的光辉。


[German] Wenn meine Gedanken von Schwäche überwältigt zu werden drohten, habe ich sie durch eine Offenbarung neu formuliert. Gerade in meiner Schwäche bin ich stark. Dieser Satz entstand nicht aus Bequemlichkeit. Er wurde in Not geschmiedet, von Gnade geformt und veränderte die Gedanken, die mich sonst hätten bestimmen können.


Ich musste lernen, die Heilige Schrift in meine Gedankenspiralen zu sprechen.


Wenn die Angst sagt: „Was, wenn alles zusammenbricht?“, antworte ich: „Der Herr ist meine Zuflucht und Stärke, ein Helfer in der Not, der sich immer als zuverlässig erweist.“


Wenn die Scham sagt, dass ich nie genug sein werde, antworte ich: Es gibt keine Verdammnis mehr für die, die in Christus Jesus sind.


Und wenn die Reue flüstert: „Du hättest es besser machen sollen“, erinnere ich mich daran: Seine Barmherzigkeit ist jeden Morgen neu.


Das ist keine Selbsthilfe. Das ist spirituelles Überleben.


Die Wiederholung wird zu meinem Rettungsanker. Jede Bibelstelle, die ich zitiere, ist wie ein Schritt vom alten Weg auf einen neuen.


Ein Weg, der von Wahrheit geprägt ist, nicht von Trauma. Es liegt eine stille Brillanz darin, wie Gott wirkt.


[Italian] Quando la mia mente rischiava di essere sopraffatta dalla debolezza, l'ho riformulata con la rivelazione. Quando sono debole, allora sono forte. Questa frase non è nata dalla comodità. È stata forgiata nella difficoltà, plasmata dalla grazia, e ha ridefinito i pensieri che altrimenti avrebbero potuto definirmi.

Ho dovuto imparare a pronunciare le Scritture nei miei vortici mentali.


Quando la paura dice: "E se tutto crollasse?", rispondo: "Il Signore è il mio rifugio e la mia forza, un aiuto sempre presente nelle difficoltà".

Quando la vergogna dice che non sarò mai abbastanza, rispondo: "Non c'è più nessuna condanna per coloro che sono in Cristo Gesù".


E quando il rimpianto sussurra: "Avrei dovuto fare di meglio", mi ricordo: "La sua misericordia si rinnova ogni mattina".

Questa non è auto-aiuto. È sopravvivenza spirituale.


La ripetizione diventa la mia ancora di salvezza. Ogni passo delle Scritture che recito è come abbandonare il vecchio sentiero per imboccarne uno nuovo.

Un sentiero scolpito dalla verità, non dal trauma. C'è una quieta brillantezza nel modo in cui Dio 


[French] Quand la faiblesse menaçait de m'envahir, je la recadrais grâce à une révélation. Quand je suis faible, c'est alors que je suis fort. Cette phrase n'est pas née du confort. Elle a été forgée dans l'épreuve, façonnée par la grâce, et elle a transformé les pensées qui auraient pu me définir.

J'ai dû apprendre à intégrer les Écritures dans mes pensées tourmentées.


Quand la peur me dit : « Et si tout s'écroule ? », je réponds : « Le Seigneur est mon refuge et ma force, un secours toujours présent dans la détresse. »

Quand la honte me dit que je ne serai jamais à la hauteur, je réponds : « Il n'y a maintenant aucune condamnation pour ceux qui sont en Jésus-Christ. »


Et quand le regret murmure : « Tu aurais dû faire mieux », je me rappelle : « Sa miséricorde se renouvelle chaque matin. »

Ce n'est pas du développement personnel. C'est une survie spirituelle.


La répétition devient mon salut. Chaque verset que je récite est comme un pas de plus vers un nouveau chemin.

 Une vie façonnée par la vérité, non par le traumatisme. Il y a une brillante sérénité dans la façon dont Dieu… 


[ Thai ] เมื่อจิตใจของฉันอาจถูกครอบงำด้วยความอ่อนแอ ฉันก็ปรับเปลี่ยนมันด้วยการเปิดเผย เมื่อฉันอ่อนแอ ฉันจึงเข้มแข็ง ประโยคนี้ไม่ได้เกิดขึ้นจากความสะดวกสบาย มันถูกสลักไว้ในความยากลำบาก หล่อหลอมด้วยพระคุณ และมันได้นิยามความคิดใหม่ที่อาจกำหนดตัวตนของฉันได้


ฉันต้องเรียนรู้ที่จะพูดพระคัมภีร์เข้าไปในวังวนความคิดของฉัน


เมื่อความกลัวพูดว่า "ถ้าทุกอย่างพังทลายลงล่ะ?" ฉันตอบว่า "พระเจ้าทรงเป็นที่พึ่งและกำลังของฉัน เป็นผู้ช่วยที่อยู่เคียงข้างฉันเสมอในยามทุกข์ยาก"


เมื่อความละอายใจบอกว่าคุณจะไม่มีวันดีพอ ฉันตอบว่า ไม่มีคำพิพากษาลงโทษสำหรับผู้ที่อยู่ในพระเยซูคริสต์แล้ว


และเมื่อความเสียใจกระซิบว่า คุณน่าจะทำได้ดีกว่านี้ ฉันเตือนตัวเองว่า พระเมตตาของพระองค์นั้นใหม่ทุกเช้า


นี่ไม่ใช่การช่วยเหลือตนเอง แต่มันคือการเอาตัวรอดทางจิตวิญญาณ


การพูดซ้ำกลายเป็นเส้นทางช่วยชีวิตของฉัน พระคัมภีร์แต่ละข้อที่ฉันพูดก็เหมือนกับการก้าวออกจากเส้นทางเก่าและเข้าสู่เส้นทางใหม่ 


หนึ่งเดียวที่ถูกแกะสลักด้วยความจริง ไม่ใช่บาดแผลทางใจ มีความงดงามอันเงียบสงบในหนทางของพระเจ้า


[ Azerbaijani ] Zəiflik ağlımı ələ keçirə biləcəyi zaman, onu vəhylə yenidən qurdum. Zəif olduğum zaman güclüyəm. Bu cümlə rahatlıqdan yaranmadı. Çətinliklərdən həkk olunmuş, lütfdən formalaşmış və məni başqa cür təyin edə biləcək düşüncələri yenidən müəyyənləşdirmişdi.

Müqəddəs Yazıları zehni spirallarıma daxil etməyi öyrənməli oldum.


Qorxu "Hər şey dağılsa necə olar?" deyəndə cavab verirəm: "Rəbb mənim sığınacağım və gücüm, çətinliklərdə daimi köməkçimdir."

Utanc heç vaxt kifayət etməyəcəyinizi deyəndə cavab verirəm, indi Məsih İsada olanlar üçün heç bir qınama yoxdur.


Peşmançılıq pıçıldayanda, daha yaxşısını etməli idiniz, öz-özümə xatırladıram. Onun mərhəməti hər səhər yenidir.

Bu, özünə kömək deyil. Bu, mənəvi sağ qalmadır.


Təkrarlama mənim xilas yoluma çevrilir. Danışdığım hər bir ayə köhnə yoldan çıxıb yeni bir yola girmək kimidir.

Travma deyil, həqiqət tərəfindən həkk olunmuş bir ayə. Tanrının necəliyində sakit bir parlaqlıq var


[Afrikaans] Toe my gedagtes dalk deur swakheid oorgeneem is, het ek dit met openbaring herformuleer. Wanneer ek swak is, dan is ek sterk. Daardie sin het nie uit troos ontstaan nie. Dit is in swaarkry gekerf, deur genade gevorm, en dit het die gedagtes herdefinieer wat my andersins kon gedefinieer het.

Ek moes leer om die Skrif in my geestesspirale te spreek.


Wanneer vrees sê: "Wat as alles uitmekaar val?" antwoord ek met: "Die Here is my toevlug en sterkte, 'n alomteenwoordige hulp in nood."

Wanneer skaamte sê jy sal nooit genoeg wees nie, antwoord ek: daar is nou geen veroordeling vir diegene wat in Christus Jesus is nie.


En wanneer spyt fluister, jy moes beter gedoen het, herinner ek myself. Sy genade is elke oggend nuut.

Dit is nie selfhelp nie. Dit is geestelike oorlewing.


Herhaling word my reddingslyn. Elke Skrif wat ek spreek, is soos om van die ou pad af te stap en in 'n nuwe een te beland.

Een gekerf deur waarheid, nie trauma nie. Daar is 'n stille briljantheid in hoe God


[Arabic]

 عندما كادت أفكاري أن تستسلم للضعف، أعدتُ صياغتها بالإلهام. عندما أكون ضعيفًا، فأنا قوي. لم تنبع هذه الكلمات من الراحة، بل نُقشت في غمرة الشدائد، وصُقلت بنعمة الله، وأعادت تعريف الأفكار التي كان من الممكن أن تُحدد هويتي.


لقد تعلمتُ أن أُردد آيات الكتاب المقدس في خضمّ أفكاري المتضاربة.


عندما يقول لي الخوف: "ماذا لو انهار كل شيء؟"، أُجيب: "الرب ملجأي وقوتي، عونٌ لي في الضيقات".


عندما يقول لي الخجل: "لن تكون كافيًا أبدًا"، أُجيب: "لا دينونة الآن على الذين هم في المسيح يسوع".


وعندما يهمس لي الندم: "كان عليك أن تفعل أفضل من ذلك"، أُذكّر نفسي: "رحمته جديدة كل صباح".


هذا ليس بحثًا عن الذات، بل هو نجاة روحية.


يُصبح التكرار طوق نجاتي. كل آية أُرددها تُشبه الخروج من الطريق القديم إلى طريق جديد.

 واحدةٌ نحتتها الحقيقة، لا الصدمة. ثمة تألقٌ هادئٌ في كيفية تعامل الله


[Armenian] Երբ միտքս կարող էր թուլության մեջ ընկղմվել, ես այն վերաձևակերպեցի հայտնությամբ։ Երբ թույլ եմ, այդ ժամանակ ուժեղ եմ։ Այդ նախադասությունը չի ծնվել մխիթարությունից։ Այն փորագրվել է դժվարությունների մեջ, ձևավորվել է շնորհով և վերաիմաստավորել է այն մտքերը, որոնք այլ կերպ կարող էին ինձ սահմանել։


Ես ստիպված եմ եղել սովորել սուրբգրային հատվածներ ասել իմ մտքի պարույրներին։


Երբ վախն ասում է. «Ի՞նչ կլինի, եթե ամեն ինչ քանդվի», ես պատասխանում եմ. «Տերը իմ ապավենն ու զորությունն է, միշտ օգնականը դժվարության մեջ»։


Երբ ամոթն ասում է, որ դու երբեք բավարար չես լինի, ես պատասխանում եմ. «Այժմ դատապարտություն չկա նրանց համար, ովքեր Քրիստոս Հիսուսի մեջ են»։


Եվ երբ ափսոսանքը շշնջում է. «Դու պետք է ավելի լավ անեիր», հիշեցնում եմ ինքս ինձ։ Նրա ողորմածությունները նոր են ամեն առավոտ։


Սա ինքնօգնություն չէ։ Սա հոգևոր գոյատևում է։


Կրկնությունը դառնում է իմ փրկության գիծը։ Յուրաքանչյուր սուրբգրային հատված, որը ես արտասանում եմ, նման է հին ճանապարհից դուրս գալուն և նոր ճանապարհ մտնելուն։

Մեկը փորագրված է ճշմարտությամբ, այլ ոչ թե տրավմայով։ Կա մի լուռ փայլ նրանում, թե ինչպես է Աստված 

[ Balinese]   Rikala pikayunan titiange minab sampun keni kelemahan, titiang ngrangkai malih antuk wahyu. Yening tiang lemet, sinah tiang kuat. Lengkara punika nenten medal saking panglipur. Punika kaukir ring kasangsaran, kawangun olih sih pasuecan, lan punika mendefinisikan mawali pikayunan sane polih mendefinisiang tiang. 

 Tiang sampun patut malajah ngomongin kitab suci dados spiral mental tiange. 


 Rikala takut ngomong,"Kenkenang yen makejang ulung?" Titiang masaur sapuniki: “Ida Sang Hyang Widi Wasa punika dados pasayuban miwah kakuatan titiange. 

 Rikala kimud maosang ragane nenten pacang naenin cukup, tiang nyawis, mangkin nenten wenten ukuman antuk anake sane wenten ring Ida Sang Kristus Yesus. 


 Lan rikala nyesel mabisik, sepatutne ragane nglaksanayang sane becikan, tiang ngelingang dewek tiange.  Sih pasuecan Idane anyar nyabran semeng. 

 Puniki boya ja ngwantu raga. Punika wantah kauripan rohani. 


  Pangulangan dados garis penyelamat tiange. Sabilang ayat sane baosang titiang, sakadi matilar saking margi sane sampun sue tur nuju margi sane anyar. 

 Silih sinunggil sane kaukir olih kasujatian, nenten trauma. Wenten kecemerlangan sepi ring sapunapi Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa .

[Vietnamese] Khi tâm trí tôi có thể bị sự yếu đuối chế ngự, tôi đã định hình lại nó bằng sự mặc khải. Khi tôi yếu đuối, thì tôi mạnh mẽ. Câu nói đó không xuất phát từ sự thoải mái. Nó được khắc ghi trong gian khổ, được định hình bởi ân điển, và nó đã định nghĩa lại những suy nghĩ lẽ ra có thể định nghĩa tôi.

Tôi đã phải học cách nói những câu Kinh Thánh vào những vòng xoáy suy nghĩ của mình.


Khi nỗi sợ hãi nói, "Điều gì sẽ xảy ra nếu mọi thứ sụp đổ?", tôi trả lời rằng, "Chúa là nơi nương náu và sức mạnh của tôi, là sự giúp đỡ luôn hiện diện trong lúc hoạn nạn."

Khi sự xấu hổ nói rằng bạn sẽ không bao giờ đủ tốt, tôi đáp lại, giờ đây không còn sự kết tội nào cho những người ở trong Chúa Giê-su Christ.


Và khi sự hối tiếc thì thầm, bạn lẽ ra nên làm tốt hơn, tôi tự nhắc nhở mình. Lòng thương xót của Ngài luôn mới mẻ mỗi buổi sáng.

Đây không phải là tự lực cánh sinh. Đây là sự sống còn về mặt tâm linh.


Sự lặp lại trở thành đường cứu rỗi của tôi. Mỗi đoạn Kinh Thánh tôi nói đến giống như việc bước ra khỏi con đường cũ và bước vào một con đường mới.

Một con đường được khắc ghi bởi chân lý, chứ không phải bởi nỗi đau. Có một sự rực rỡ thầm lặng trong cách Chúa...


[Myanmar Burmese

ကျွန်မရဲ့စိတ်ကို အားနည်းချက်တွေက လွှမ်းမိုးသွားနိုင်တဲ့အခါ၊ ကျွန်မက ဗျာဒိတ်တော်နဲ့ ပြန်လည်ပုံဖော်ခဲ့တယ်။ ကျွန်မ အားနည်းတဲ့အခါ ကျွန်မက ခွန်အားကြီးတယ်။ အဲဒီစာကြောင်းက နှစ်သိမ့်မှုကနေ ထွက်ပေါ်လာတာမဟုတ်ဘူး။ ခက်ခဲကြမ်းတမ်းမှုတွေမှာ ထွင်းထုထားပြီး၊ ကျေးဇူးတော်နဲ့ ပုံသွင်းထားပြီး ကျွန်မကို တခြားနည်းနဲ့ အဓိပ္ပာယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုနိုင်တဲ့ အတွေးတွေကို ပြန်လည်အဓိပ္ပာယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုထားတယ်။


ကျွန်မရဲ့ စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ လှိုင်းလုံးတွေထဲကို ကျမ်းစာကို ပြောတတ်အောင် သင်ယူခဲ့ရတယ်။


ကြောက်ရွံ့မှုက "အရာအားလုံး ပြိုကွဲသွားရင်ကော" လို့ ပြောတဲ့အခါ "ဘုရားသခင်ဟာ ကျွန်မရဲ့ ခိုလှုံရာနဲ့ ခွန်အား၊ အခက်အခဲမှာ အမြဲတမ်း အကူအညီပေးသူပါ" လို့ ကျွန်မ ပြန်ဖြေတယ်။


ရှက်ရွံ့မှုက ဘယ်တော့မှ လုံလောက်မှာ မဟုတ်ဘူးလို့ ပြောတဲ့အခါ၊ ကျွန်မက ခရစ်တော်ယေရှုထဲမှာ ရှိနေသူတွေအတွက် အခု ရှုတ်ချစရာ မရှိတော့ဘူးလို့ ပြန်ဖြေတယ်။


နောင်တက တိုးတိုးလေးပြောတဲ့အခါ၊ မင်း ပိုကောင်းအောင် လုပ်သင့်တယ်၊ ကျွန်မ ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် သတိပေးတယ်။ သူ့ရဲ့ကရုဏာတွေက မနက်တိုင်း အသစ်ဖြစ်နေတယ်။


ဒါက ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် ကူညီတာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။ ဝိညာဉ်ရေးအရ ရှင်သန်ရပ်တည်ရေးပဲ။


ထပ်ခါတလဲလဲရွတ်ဆိုခြင်းက ကျွန်မရဲ့ ကယ်တင်ရေးလမ်းကြောင်း ဖြစ်လာတယ်။ ကျွန်မပြောတဲ့ ကျမ်းစာတိုင်းဟာ လမ်းဟောင်းကနေ လမ်းသစ်တစ်ခုထဲကို ခြေလှမ်းလိုက်သလိုပါပဲ။


စိတ်ဒဏ်ရာမဟုတ်ဘဲ အမှန်တရားနဲ့ ထွင်းထုထားတဲ့ ကျမ်းစာ။ ဘုရားသခင်ရဲ့ ဉာဏ်ပညာမှာ တိတ်ဆိတ်ငြိမ်သက်တဲ့ ဉာဏ်ပညာ ရှိပါတယ်


[Tamil] என் மனம் பலவீனத்தால் ஆட்கொள்ளப்பட்டிருக்கக்கூடிய சமயங்களில், நான் அதை வெளிப்பாட்டின் மூலம் மறுவடிவமைத்தேன். நான் பலவீனமாக இருக்கும்போது, நான் பலமுள்ளவனாக இருக்கிறேன். அந்த வாக்கியம் சுகபோகத்திலிருந்து தோன்றவில்லை. அது கஷ்டத்தில் செதுக்கப்பட்டது, கிருபையால் வடிவமைக்கப்பட்டது, மேலும் அது என்னை வரையறுத்திருக்கக்கூடிய எண்ணங்களுக்கு ஒரு புதிய வரையறையை அளித்தது.


என் மனச் சுழல்களுக்குள் வேதவசனங்களைப் பேச நான் கற்றுக்கொள்ள வேண்டியிருந்தது.


"எல்லாம் சிதைந்து போனால் என்ன செய்வது?" என்று பயம் கேட்கும்போது, "கர்த்தர் என் அடைக்கலமும் பெலமும், இக்கட்டில் எப்போதும் உடனிருக்கும் உதவியும் ஆவார்" என்று நான் பதிலளிக்கிறேன்.


"நீ ஒருபோதும் போதுமானவனாக இருக்க மாட்டாய்" என்று வெட்கம் சொல்லும்போது, "கிறிஸ்து இயேசுவுக்குள் இருப்பவர்களுக்கு இப்பொழுது ஆக்கினைத் தீர்ப்பு இல்லை" என்று நான் பதிலளிக்கிறேன்.


"நீ இன்னும் சிறப்பாகச் செய்திருக்க வேண்டும்" என்று வருத்தம் கிசுகிசுக்கும்போது, நான் எனக்கு நானே நினைவூட்டிக்கொள்கிறேன். அவருடைய இரக்கங்கள் ஒவ்வொரு காலையிலும் புதியவை.


இது சுய உதவி அல்ல. இது ஆவிக்குரிய உயிர்வாழ்தல்.


மீண்டும் மீண்டும் சொல்வது என் மீட்புக் கயிறாகிறது. நான் பேசும் ஒவ்வொரு வேதவசனமும் பழைய பாதையிலிருந்து விலகி ஒரு புதிய பாதையில் அடியெடுத்து வைப்பதைப் போன்றது.


அது அதிர்ச்சியால் அல்ல, சத்தியத்தால் செதுக்கப்பட்டது. கடவுள் செயல்படும் விதத்தில் ஒரு அமைதியான மேன்மை இருக்கிறது.


[Telugu] నా మనస్సు బలహీనతచే ఆవరించబడినప్పుడు, నేను దైవ ప్రత్యక్షతతో దానిని పునర్నిర్మించుకున్నాను. నేను బలహీనంగా ఉన్నప్పుడే, నేను బలంగా ఉంటాను. ఆ వాక్యం సౌకర్యం నుండి పుట్టలేదు. అది కష్టంలో చెక్కబడి, కృపచే రూపుదిద్దుకుంది, మరియు లేకపోతే నన్ను నిర్వచించగలిగే ఆలోచనలను అది పునర్నిర్వచించింది.


నా మానసిక గందరగోళాల నుండి లేఖనాలను బయటకు పలకడం నేను నేర్చుకోవలసి వచ్చింది.


భయం, "ఒకవేళ అంతా నాశనమైపోతే?" అని అన్నప్పుడు, నేను, "ప్రభువు నా ఆశ్రయము, నా బలము, ఆపదలో ఆసరాగా నిలుచువాడు" అని జవాబిస్తాను.


సిగ్గు, "నువ్వు ఎప్పటికీ సరిపోవు" అని అన్నప్పుడు, నేను, "క్రీస్తుయేసునందు ఉన్నవారికి ఇప్పుడు ఏ శిక్షావిధియు లేదు" అని బదులిస్తాను.


మరియు పశ్చాత్తాపం, "నువ్వు ఇంకా బాగా చేసి ఉండాల్సింది" అని గుసగుసలాడినప్పుడు, నేను నాకు నేనే గుర్తుచేసుకుంటాను. ఆయన కనికరములు ప్రతి ఉదయము నూతనమైనవి.


ఇది ఆత్మసహాయం కాదు. ఇది ఆధ్యాత్మిక మనుగడ.


పునరావృత్తి నా రక్షణ రేఖ అవుతుంది. నేను పలికే ప్రతి లేఖనము పాత మార్గం నుండి బయటకు వచ్చి కొత్త మార్గంలోకి అడుగుపెట్టడం లాంటిది.


అది సత్యంచే చెక్కబడినది, గాయంచే కాదు. దేవుడు వ్యవహరించే విధానంలో ఒక నిశ్శబ్దమైన ప్రకాశం ఉంది

[Sinhala] මගේ මනස දුර්වලතාවයෙන් යටපත් වී ඇති විට, මම එය හෙළිදරව් කිරීමකින් නැවත සකස් කළෙමි. මම දුර්වල වූ විට, මම ශක්තිමත්. එම වාක්‍යය සැනසීමෙන් මතු නොවීය. එය දුෂ්කරතාවයෙන් කැටයම් කර, කරුණාවෙන් හැඩගස්වා ඇති අතර, වෙනත් ආකාරයකින් මා අර්ථ දැක්විය හැකි සිතුවිලි එය නැවත අර්ථ දැක්වීය.


මගේ මානසික සර්පිලාකාරවලට ශුද්ධ ලියවිල්ල කථා කිරීමට මට ඉගෙන ගැනීමට සිදු විය.


"සියල්ල කඩා වැටුණොත් කුමක් කළ යුතුද?" බිය පවසන විට, මම පිළිතුරු දෙන්නේ, "ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේ මාගේ රැකවරණය සහ ශක්තියයි, කරදරයේදී සදාකාලික උපකාරයකි" යනුවෙනි.


ලැජ්ජාව ඔබ කිසි විටෙකත් ප්‍රමාණවත් නොවන බව පවසන විට, මම ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වන්නෙමි, ක්‍රිස්තුස් ජේසුස් වහන්සේ තුළ සිටින අයට දැන් දණ්ඩනයක් නැත.


කනගාටුව මුමුණන විට, ඔබ වඩා හොඳින් කළ යුතුව තිබුණි, මම මටම මතක් කර ගනිමි. ඔහුගේ දයාව සෑම උදෑසනකම අලුත් ය.


මෙය ස්වයං උපකාරයක් නොවේ. එය අධ්‍යාත්මික පැවැත්මයි.


පුනරාවර්තනය මගේ ගලවා ගැනීමේ මාර්ගය බවට පත්වේ. මා කතා කරන සෑම ශුද්ධ ලියවිල්ලක්ම පැරණි මාර්ගයෙන් ඉවත් වී නව මාර්ගයකට පිවිසීමක් වැනිය.


 කම්පනයෙන් නොව සත්‍යයෙන් කැටයම් කරන ලද එකක්. දෙවියන් වහන්සේ


[Tibetan]   ངའི་སེམས་ལ་ཞན་ཆ་ཡོད་སྲིད་པའི་སྐབས་སུ། ངས་དེ་ལ་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་དང་བཅས་བསྐྱར་སྒྲིག་བྱས། ང་ཞན་པའི་སྐབས་སུ་ང་ཤུགས་ཆེ་བ་ཡིན། བརྗོད་ཚིག་དེ་བདེ་འཇགས་ལས་ཐོན་མེད། དེ་དཀའ་སྡུག་ནང་དུ་བརྐོས་ནས་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་བཟོ་ལྟ་བཟོས་པ་དང་། དེས་གཞན་གྱིས་ང་ལ་འགྲེལ་བཤད་རྒྱག་ཐུབ་པའི་བསམ་བློ་དེ་དག་ལ་བསྐྱར་དུ་ངེས་ཚིག་བཀོད་ཡོད། 


 ངས་སེམས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ནང་ལ་ཡི་གེ་བཤད་ཤེས་དགོས་བྱུང་། 


 འཇིགས་སྣང་གིས་"གལ་ཏེ་ཡོད་ཚད་ཆག་པ་ཡིན་ན་གང་འདྲ་རེད།" ངས་ལན་དུ་ "གཙོ་བོ་དཀོན་མཆོག་ནི་ངའི་སྐྱབས་གནས་དང་སྟོབས་ཤུགས་ཡིན། 


 ངོ་ཚ་ཡིས་ཁྱེད་རང་ནམ་ཡང་འདང་ངེས་ཤིག་མིན་ཞེས་བཤད་སྐབས་ངས་ལན་བཏབ་པ་ནི། ད་ལྟ་ཁིརཱིས་ཡེ་ཤུའི་ནང་དུ་ཡོད་མཁན་ཚོར་ཉེས་འཛུགས་མེད་པ་རེད། 


 འགྱོད་པ་སྐྱེས་སྐབས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་ཡག་པོ་བྱེད་དགོས་འདུག ངས་རང་ཉིད་ལ་དྲན་སྐུལ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད།  ཁོང་གི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ནི་ཞོགས་པ་རེ་རེར་གསར་པ་ཡིན། 


 འདི་ནི་རང་དོན་མ་རེད། དེ་ནི་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་འཚོ་གནས་ཡིན། 


  བསྐྱར་ཟློས་ནི་ངའི་མྱུར་སྐྱོབ་ཀྱི་ཐིག་ལ་གྱུར། ངས་བཤད་པའི་གསུང་རབ་རེ་རེ་ནི་ལམ་རྙིང་ནས་ཕྱིར་ཐོན་ཏེ་ལམ་གསར་པ་ཞིག་ལ་འགྲོ་བ་དང་འདྲ། 


 བདེན་པས་བརྐོས་པ་གཅིག་རེད། རྨས་སྐྱོན་མ་རེད། ལྷ་ཇི་ལྟར་འོད་སྟོང་འཕྲོ་བ་ཞིག་ཡོད།

[Nepali] जब मेरो मन कमजोरीले भरिएको हुन सक्छ, मैले यसलाई प्रकाशले पुन: फ्रेम गरें। जब म कमजोर हुन्छु, तब म बलियो हुन्छु। त्यो वाक्य आरामबाट निस्किएन। यो कठिनाइमा कुँदिएको थियो, अनुग्रहले आकार दिएको थियो, र यसले मलाई अन्यथा परिभाषित गर्न सक्ने विचारहरूलाई पुन: परिभाषित गर्यो।


मैले मेरो मानसिक सर्पिलहरूमा धर्मशास्त्र बोल्न सिक्नु परेको छ।


जब डरले भन्छ, "यदि सबै कुरा टुटेको भए के हुन्छ?" म जवाफ दिन्छु, "प्रभु मेरो शरणस्थान र शक्ति हुनुहुन्छ, समस्यामा सधैंभरि रहने मद्दत।"


जब लाजले भन्छ कि तपाईं कहिल्यै पर्याप्त हुनुहुन्न, म जवाफ दिन्छु, ख्रीष्ट येशूमा भएकाहरूका लागि अब कुनै निन्दा छैन।


र जब पश्चातापले फुसफुसाउँछ, तपाईंले राम्रो गर्नुपर्थ्यो, म आफैलाई सम्झाउँछु। उहाँको दया हरेक बिहान नयाँ हुन्छ।


यो आत्म-सहायता होइन। यो आध्यात्मिक अस्तित्व हो।


दोहोरिने मेरो उद्धार रेखा बन्छ। मैले बोल्ने प्रत्येक धर्मशास्त्र पुरानो बाटोबाट हटेर नयाँ बाटोमा पाइला चाल्नु जस्तै हो।


 आघातले होइन, सत्यले कुँदिएको। भगवानले कसरी

[Norwegian] Da tankene mine kanskje ble overmannet av svakhet, omformet jeg dem med åpenbaring. Når jeg er svak, da er jeg sterk. Den setningen kom ikke fra trøst. Den ble hugget i motgang, formet av nåde, og den omdefinerte tankene som ellers kunne ha definert meg.


Jeg har måttet lære å tale Skriften inn i mine mentale spiraler.


Når frykt sier: «Hva om alt faller fra hverandre?» svarer jeg med: «Herren er min tilflukt og styrke, en alltid tilgjengelig hjelp i nød.»


Når skam sier at du aldri vil være nok, svarer jeg: «Det er nå ingen fordømmelse for dem som er i Kristus Jesus.»


Og når anger hvisker: «Du burde ha gjort det bedre,» minner jeg meg selv på. Hans barmhjertighet er ny hver morgen.


Dette er ikke selvhjelp. Det er åndelig overlevelse.


Gjentakelse blir min redningslinje. Hvert skriftsted jeg taler er som å gå av den gamle stien og inn på en ny.

En stien hugget av sannhet, ikke traumer. Det er en stille briljans i hvordan Gud

[ Cebuano] Sa dihang ang akong hunahuna tingali nalupig sa kahuyang, akong gibag-o kini gamit ang pagpadayag. Kon ako maluya, nan ako kusgan. Kana nga sentensiya wala mogawas gikan sa kahupayan. Kini gikulit sa kalisud, giumol sa grasya, ug kini nagbag-o sa mga hunahuna nga unta naghubit kanako.


Kinahanglan kong makat-on sa pagsulti sa kasulatan ngadto sa akong mga spiral sa hunahuna.


Kon ang kahadlok moingon, "Unsa kaha kon ang tanan maguba?" Motubag ko, "Ang Ginoo mao ang akong dalangpanan ug kusog, usa ka kanunay nga tabang sa kasamok."


Kon ang kaulaw moingon nga dili ka gayud igo, ako motubag, wala nay pagkondenar alang niadtong anaa kang Kristo Jesus.


Ug kon ang pagbasol mohunghong, kinahanglan unta nga mas maayo ang imong nahimo, gipahinumdoman nako ang akong kaugalingon. Ang Iyang mga kalooy bag-o matag buntag.


Dili kini pagtabang sa kaugalingon. Kini espirituhanong pagkabuhi.


Ang pagsubli-subli mahimong akong linya sa pagluwas. Ang matag kasulatan nga akong gisulti sama sa paglakang gikan sa daan nga dalan ug ngadto sa usa ka bag-o.


Usa nga gikulit sa kamatuoran, dili trauma. Adunay hilom nga kahayag sa paagi sa Dios

[ Spanish] Cuando la debilidad pudo haber dominado mi mente, la transformé con revelación. Cuando soy débil, entonces soy fuerte. Esa frase no surgió de la comodidad. Fue forjada en la adversidad, moldeada por la gracia, y redefinió los pensamientos que de otro modo podrían haberme definido.


He tenido que aprender a invocar las Escrituras en medio de mis pensamientos negativos.


Cuando el miedo dice: "¿Y si todo se derrumba?", respondo: "El Señor es mi refugio y fortaleza, mi ayuda segura en momentos de angustia".


Cuando la vergüenza dice: "Nunca serás suficiente", respondo: "Ahora no hay condenación para los que están en Cristo Jesús".


Y cuando el arrepentimiento susurra: "Deberías haberlo hecho mejor", me recuerdo a mí misma: "Sus misericordias se renuevan cada mañana".


Esto no es autoayuda. Es supervivencia espiritual.


La repetición se convierte en mi salvavidas. Cada pasaje bíblico que comparto es como desviarme del camino antiguo y adentrarme en uno nuevo.

Un camino forjado por la verdad, no por el trauma. Hay una serena brillantez en la forma en que Dios...


[Portuguese Portugal] Quando a minha mente poderia ter sido dominada pela fraqueza, reformulei-a com revelação. Quando estou fraco, então sou forte. Esta frase não surgiu do conforto. Foi esculpida na dificuldade, moldada pela graça e redefiniu os pensamentos que me poderiam ter definido.


Tive de aprender a falar as Escrituras no meio dos meus pensamentos confusos.


Quando o medo diz: "E se tudo se desmoronar?", eu respondo: "O Senhor é o meu refúgio e a minha fortaleza, socorro bem presente na angústia".


Quando a vergonha diz que nunca será suficiente, respondo: "Agora já não há condenação para os que estão em Cristo Jesus".


E quando o arrependimento sussurra: "Devias ter feito melhor", lembro-me: "As tuas misericórdias renovam-se a cada manhã".


Isto não é autoajuda. É sobrevivência espiritual.


A repetição torna-se a minha tábua de salvação. Cada passagem bíblica que menciono é como sair do caminho antigo e entrar num novo.

Um caminho trilhado pela verdade, não pelo trauma. Há um brilho sereno na forma como Deus...


[Brazil Portuguese] Quando minha mente poderia ter sido dominada pela fraqueza, eu a reformulei com revelação. Quando estou fraco, então sou forte. Essa frase não surgiu do conforto. Foi esculpida na dificuldade, moldada pela graça e redefiniu os pensamentos que poderiam ter me definido.


Tive que aprender a falar as Escrituras em meio aos meus pensamentos confusos.


Quando o medo diz: "E se tudo desmoronar?", eu respondo: "O Senhor é o meu refúgio e a minha fortaleza, socorro bem presente na angústia".


Quando a vergonha diz que você nunca será suficiente, eu respondo: "Agora já não há condenação para os que estão em Cristo Jesus".


E quando o arrependimento sussurra: "Você deveria ter feito melhor", eu me lembro: "Suas misericórdias se renovam a cada manhã".


Isso não é autoajuda. É sobrevivência espiritual.


A repetição se torna minha tábua de salvação. Cada passagem bíblica que eu menciono é como sair do caminho antigo e entrar em um novo.

Um caminho trilhado pela verdade, não pelo trauma. Há um brilho sereno na maneira como Deus... 

[Korean] 마음이 나약함에 사로잡힐 뻔했을 때, 저는 계시를 통해 생각을 새롭게 했습니다. 내가 약할 때, 나는 강하다. 이 문장은 안락함에서 나온 것이 아닙니다. 고난 속에서 새겨지고 은혜로 다듬어졌으며, 그렇지 않았다면 나를 규정했을 생각들을 재정의했습니다.


저는 마음속의 소용돌이에 성경 말씀을 되뇌이는 법을 배워야 했습니다.


두려움이 "모든 것이 무너지면 어떡하지?"라고 속삭일 때, 저는 "여호와는 나의 피난처요 힘이시요 환난 중에 언제나 나를 도우시는 분이시라"라고 대답합니다.


수치심이 "넌 절대 충분하지 않아"라고 말할 때, 저는 "그리스도 예수 안에 있는 자에게는 정죄가 없느니라"라고 되뇌입니다.


그리고 후회가 "더 잘했어야 했는데"라고 속삭일 때, 저는 스스로에게 상기시킵니다. "그분의 자비는 매일 아침 새롭습니다."


이것은 자기 계발이 아닙니다. 영적인 생존입니다.


반복은 저의 구원의 손길이 됩니다. 제가 되뇌이는 모든 성경 구절은 마치 낡은 길에서 벗어나 새로운 길로 들어서는 것과 같습니다.

 진실로 빚어진 것이지, 트라우마로 빚어진 것이 아니다. 신의 방식에는 조용한 광채가 있다.


[Japanese] 心が弱さに支配されそうになった時、私は啓示によってそれを再構築しました。「弱い時こそ、私は強い」。この言葉は安楽な状況から生まれたものではありません。苦難の中で刻まれ、恵みによって形作られ、そうでなければ私を定義づけていたであろう思考を根本から変えたのです。


私は、心の迷いに聖書の言葉を語りかけることを学ばなければなりませんでした。


「もしすべてが崩れ落ちたらどうしよう?」という恐れが囁く時、私は「主は私の避難所、私の力、苦難の時の変わらぬ助け」と答えます。


「あなたは決して十分ではない」という恥の念が囁く時、私は「キリスト・イエスにある者には、もはや罪の宣告はない」と答えます。


「もっとうまくできたはずだ」という後悔が囁く時、私は自分に言い聞かせます。「主の憐れみは毎朝新しい」。


これは自己啓発ではありません。霊的なサバイバルです。


繰り返し唱えることが、私の救いの手となるのです。 私が語る聖句の一つ一つは、古い道から新しい道へと踏み出すようなものです。

それは、トラウマではなく真実によって刻まれた道です。神の御業には、静かな輝きがあります。


[Javanese] Nalika pikiranku kewalahan, aku ngowahi nganggo wahyu. Nalika aku ringkih, aku kuwat. Ukara kuwi ora metu saka rasa nyaman. Ukara kuwi diukir ing sajroning kangelan, dibentuk dening sih-rahmat, lan mbentuk maneh pikiran-pikiran sing sakjatine bisa mbentuk aku.


Aku kudu sinau ngucapake Kitab Suci menyang spiral mentalku.


Nalika rasa wedi ngomong, "Kepiye yen kabeh ambruk?" Aku mangsuli, "Gusti iku papan perlindungan lan kekuwatanku, pitulungan sing tansah ana ing wektu kangelan."


Nalika rasa isin ngomong yen kowe ora bakal cukup, aku mangsuli, saiki ora ana paukuman kanggo wong-wong sing ana ing Kristus Yesus.


Lan nalika penyesalan muni, kowe kudune nindakake luwih apik, aku ngelingake awake dhewe. Welas asih-Ne anyar saben esuk.


Iki dudu pitulungan dhiri. Iku kaslametan spiritual.


Pengulangan dadi garis penyelamatku. Saben ayat sing dakkandhakake kaya-kaya metu saka dalan lawas lan mlebu dalan anyar.

Sing diukir dening bebener, dudu trauma. Ana kaendahan sing sepi ing kepiye Gusti Allah

[Indonesian] Ketika pikiranku mungkin dikuasai oleh kelemahan, aku membingkainya kembali dengan wahyu. Ketika aku lemah, maka aku kuat. Kalimat itu tidak muncul dari kenyamanan. Itu diukir dalam kesulitan, dibentuk oleh kasih karunia, dan itu mendefinisikan kembali pikiran-pikiran yang mungkin mendefinisikan diriku.


Aku harus belajar untuk mengucapkan ayat-ayat Alkitab ke dalam pusaran pikiranku.


Ketika rasa takut berkata, "Bagaimana jika semuanya hancur?" Aku menjawab, "Tuhan adalah tempat perlindungan dan kekuatanku, penolong yang selalu hadir dalam kesusahan."


Ketika rasa malu berkata bahwa kau tidak akan pernah cukup baik, aku menjawab, sekarang tidak ada penghukuman bagi mereka yang berada di dalam Kristus Yesus.


Dan ketika penyesalan berbisik, seharusnya kau berbuat lebih baik, aku mengingatkan diriku sendiri. Kasih karunia-Nya baru setiap pagi.


Ini bukan bantuan diri. Ini adalah kelangsungan hidup spiritual.


Pengulangan menjadi tali penyelamatku. Setiap ayat suci yang saya ucapkan bagaikan melangkah keluar dari jalan lama dan memasuki jalan baru.

Jalan yang diukir oleh kebenaran, bukan trauma. Ada kecemerlangan yang tenang dalam cara Tuhan bertindak.

[Iban]   Lebuh runding aku engka udah dipegai pengelemi, aku ngaga baru rangka iya enggau penerang. Lebuh aku lemi, dia aku kering. Ayat nya enda pansut ari pengelantang. Iya diukir dalam penusah, ditempa ulih pengasih, lalu iya meri definisyen baru ngagai runding ti tau meri definisyen ngagai aku enggau chara bukai. 


 Aku udah patut belajar bejaku ayat kudus ngagai spiral mental aku. 


 Lebuh penakut madah,"Baka ni enti semua utai labuh?" Aku nyaut enggau, "TUHAN nya endur aku ngelindung diri enggau pengering aku, Iya seruran nulung aku lebuh aku tusah." 

 Lebuh pemalu madahka nuan enda kala chukup, aku nimbal, diatu nadai ukum ke sida ti dalam Kristus Jesus. 


 Lalu lebuh nesal bisik, nuan patut udah ngereja pengawa enggau manah agi, aku ngingatka diri empu.  Pengasih Iya baru tiap pagi. 


 Tu ukai pengawa nulung diri empu. Iya nya pengidup rohani. 

  Ulang nyadi garis penyelamat aku. Tiap iti ayat ti disebut aku nya baka ke nyingkang ari jalai lama lalu nuju jalai ti baru. 

 Siti diukir ulih pemendar, ukai trauma. Bisi kecemerlangan ti sunyi dalam baka ni Petara .


[ Icelandic] Þegar veikleiki gæti hafa gripið hugann, endurorðaði ég hann með opinberun. Þegar ég er veikur, þá er ég sterkur. Þessi setning kom ekki fram í huggun. Hún var höggin í erfiðleikum, mótuð af náð og hún endurskilgreindi hugsanir sem hefðu annars getað skilgreint mig.


Ég hef þurft að læra að tala ritninguna inn í hugsunarhneigð mína.

Þegar óttinn segir: „Hvað ef allt hrynur?“ svara ég með: „Drottinn er hæli mitt og styrkur, alltaf hjálp í neyð.“


Þegar skömm segir að þú munt aldrei vera nógur, svara ég, það er nú engin fordæming fyrir þá sem eru í Kristi Jesú.

Og þegar eftirsjá hvíslar, þú hefðir átt að gera betur, minni ég mig á. Miskunn hans er ný á hverjum morgni.


Þetta er ekki sjálfshjálp. Þetta er andleg lifun.


Endurtekning verður björgunarlína mín. Hver ritningargrein sem ég tala er eins og að stíga af gömlu brautinni og inn á nýja.

Ein sem er höggin af sannleika, ekki áföllum. Það er hljóðlát snilld í því hvernig Guð

[Esperanto] Kiam mia menso eble estis superfortita de malforteco, mi reformulis ĝin per revelacio. Kiam mi estas malforta, tiam mi estas forta. Tiu frazo ne eliris el komforto. Ĝi estis ĉizita en malfacilaĵoj, formita per graco, kaj ĝi redifinis la pensojn, kiuj alie povus esti difinintaj min.


Mi devis lerni paroli la skribaĵojn en miajn mensajn spiralojn.


Kiam timo diras: "Kio se ĉio disfalos?" mi respondas per: "La Eternulo estas mia rifuĝo kaj forto, ĉiam ĉeesta helpo en mizero."


Kiam honto diras, ke vi neniam sufiĉos, mi respondas, ke nun ne ekzistas kondamno por tiuj, kiuj estas en Kristo Jesuo.


Kaj kiam bedaŭro flustras, vi devus esti farinta pli bone, mi memorigas min. Liaj kompatoj estas novaj ĉiumatene.


Ĉi tio ne estas memhelpo. Ĝi estas spirita supervivo.


Ripeto fariĝas mia savlinio. Ĉiu skribaĵo, kiun mi parolas, estas kiel paŝi for de la malnova vojo kaj en novan.

Unu ĉizita de vero, ne traŭmato. Estas kvieta brileco en kiel Dio

[ Estonian ] Kui nõrkus võis mu meelt vallutada, muutsin seda ilmutusega. Kui olen nõrk, siis olen tugev. See lause ei tekkinud lohutusest. See oli raiutud raskustes, vormitud armu poolt ja see andis uue tähenduse mõtetele, mis oleksid võinud mind muidu määratleda.


Olen pidanud õppima pühakirja oma vaimsetesse spiraalidesse edastama.


Kui hirm ütleb: "Mis siis, kui kõik laguneb?", vastan ma: "Issand on mu varjupaik ja tugevus, alati abimees hädas."


Kui häbi ütleb, et sa ei ole kunagi küllalt, vastan ma, et neil, kes on Kristuses Jeesuses, pole enam hukkamõistu.


Ja kui kahetsus sosistab, et oleksid pidanud paremini tegema, tuletan endale meelde. Tema halastus on igal hommikul uus.


See ei ole eneseabi. See on vaimne ellujäämine.


Kordamisest saab minu päästerõngas. Iga pühakirjakoht, mida ma räägin, on nagu vanalt teelt maha astumine uuele.

 Tõe, mitte trauma poolt kujundatud. Jumala vaikne sära peitub selles, kuidas ta 


[ Khmer ] នៅពេលដែលចិត្តខ្ញុំអាចត្រូវបានគ្របដណ្ដប់ដោយភាពទន់ខ្សោយ ខ្ញុំបានកែសម្រួលវាឡើងវិញជាមួយនឹងវិវរណៈ។ នៅពេលដែលខ្ញុំទន់ខ្សោយ នោះខ្ញុំរឹងមាំ។ ប្រយោគនោះមិនបានកើតចេញពីការលួងលោមទេ។ វាត្រូវបានឆ្លាក់នៅក្នុងការលំបាក បង្កើតឡើងដោយព្រះគុណ ហើយវាបានកំណត់ឡើងវិញនូវគំនិតដែលអាចកំណត់ខ្ញុំតាមវិធីផ្សេង។


ខ្ញុំត្រូវរៀននិយាយព្រះគម្ពីរចូលទៅក្នុងរង្វង់ផ្លូវចិត្តរបស់ខ្ញុំ។


នៅពេលដែលការភ័យខ្លាចនិយាយថា "ចុះបើអ្វីៗទាំងអស់ដួលរលំ?" ខ្ញុំឆ្លើយថា "ព្រះអម្ចាស់ជាទីពឹង និងជាកម្លាំងរបស់ខ្ញុំ ជាជំនួយដែលមានវត្តមានជានិច្ចក្នុងគ្រាលំបាក"។


នៅពេលដែលភាពអាម៉ាស់និយាយថា អ្នកនឹងមិនដែលគ្រប់គ្រាន់ទេ ខ្ញុំឆ្លើយថា ឥឡូវនេះគ្មានការថ្កោលទោសសម្រាប់អ្នកដែលនៅក្នុងព្រះគ្រីស្ទយេស៊ូវទេ។


ហើយនៅពេលដែលការសោកស្តាយខ្សឹបខ្សៀវ អ្នកគួរតែធ្វើបានល្អជាងនេះ ខ្ញុំរំលឹកខ្លួនឯង។ សេចក្តីមេត្តាករុណារបស់ទ្រង់គឺថ្មីជារៀងរាល់ព្រឹក។


នេះមិនមែនជាការជួយខ្លួនឯងទេ។ វាគឺជាការរស់រានមានជីវិតខាងវិញ្ញាណ។


ការនិយាយឡើងវិញក្លាយជាខ្សែបន្ទាត់សង្គ្រោះរបស់ខ្ញុំ។ ព្រះគម្ពីរនីមួយៗដែលខ្ញុំនិយាយគឺដូចជាការបោះជំហានចេញពីផ្លូវចាស់ ហើយចូលទៅក្នុងផ្លូវថ្មីមួយ។


មួយដែលឆ្លាក់ដោយសេចក្តីពិត មិនមែនរបួសផ្លូវចិត្តទេ។ មានភាពវៃឆ្លាតស្ងប់ស្ងាត់នៅក្នុងរបៀបដែលព្រះ

NATURAL MAN'S FAITH

 Chapter The Tenth 

NATURAL MAN'S FAITH 

NATURAL man does not have the same kind of faith that the Believer enjoys. The natural man believes in the things he can see, hear, taste, smell and feel. (Read title,"The Two Kinds of Faith.") 

It was hard for us to grasp this. For a long time I could not understand the meaning of the word, "believe," in relation to natural man. 

Then the Spirit unveiled it to me. "Believe" is an action word, a verb. "Faith" is a noun, the result of action. Then, believing, for the unsaved man, would be to act on what God has spoken. 

He says to the unsaved man, "If you will take Jesus Christ as your Saviour and confess Him as your Lord, I will give you Eternal Life." 

Then the natural man simply acts on the Word, and the Father gives him Eternal Life. As soon as he has done this, the Father owns him as His child. In the mind of the Father he is a believer and possesses all things. 

Ephesians 1:3 will illustrate it. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ." 

All things are his, but he may not know it. As he grows in Grace, he will come to know what he is in Christ. 

He cannot grow in Grace without the Word. He has the Living Word, the Written Word, and he has the great, mighty Holy Spirit as his teacher so that he may grow in the Word. 

As he grows in the Word, he grows in Grace. That is, his spirit begins to take on the Love Nature of Jesus. He becomes gentle and beautiful in his spirit. 

He may have been very critical and hard before, but now the very gentleness of the Master has taken possession of him. 

The Pauline pictures of full grown faith are a challenge to him, so he feeds upon the Word daily. He studies to show himself approved unto the Father. 

He begins to take over the burdens of those who are weaker than he. Romans 15:1 becomes a favorite with him,"Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves 

He has been an abnormally selfish man, but he now becomes an abnormally unselfish man. 

You see, this new babe in Christ is growing very rapidly. The very Life of the Father is being reproduced in him. The Word of Christ dwells in him richly, He is passing out of the bondage that held him. 

His whole mental life was full of unseemly things. Now his recreated spirit, filled with Love, is gaining control of that unruly mind and imagination. He is bringing it into subjection to the Word. 

The Word truly begins to dwell in him richly. He feeds upon it, lives in it. He acts upon it. 

The Word has become a love letter from the Father to his heart. It is a daily message from Heaven's Throne Room. It is his com-munication with the Father and the Master. 

After a while the Word abides in him to the extent that his Faith life becomes outstanding. 

John 15:7,8 becomes a beautiful reality."If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples." 

I hear him say, I want that eighth verse made real in my life, I want to bear much fruit. I want Him to look upon me as a disciple,as a student, as one that is sitting at His feet practicing the Word. 

You see, this new man that has been begotten in Him, that new self, has utterly displaced the conduct and the practices of the old self. 

People cannot understand this. He no longer blasphemes or cares to go with the old crowd. Whenever he goes with the old crowd, it is as an evangelist. He is out seeking the lost. 

He has taken Jesus' place. The Jesus Life now rules him. You know, this is the most wonderful thing about this life.

As a natural man, he didn't understand any of these things; he didn't care about them. Yet his old associates and old lfe and the habits have all dropped off. He has become an utterly new man. 

THE LIMITATIONS OF NATURAL MAN 

He is the slave of his senses. Five senses rule.

We think of him in the Garden, walking with God as a spirit-ruled being. His spirit then dominated everything. 

God could communicate with him with the utmost freedom, but when he fell, his spirit became a partaker of Satan's nature. He lost his contact with God, and when he was dlriven from the Garden, he became utterly dependent upon his five senses to support and protect and care for him. 

He is out in a world now where Satan rules. He must have eyes to see the dangers, and ears to hear his enemies. He must have taste to know what to eat. He must have a keen sense of smell so as to detect an enemy or poisoned fruits. He must have a sense of touch. 

He lives in the realm of his senses now. 

All that man has learned since the fall has come through his senses. Man has had no other means of knowledge. He has been shut away from God. 

"Now the natural man understandeth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually revealed." 1 Corinthians 2:14. 

There can come no spiritual revelation to that man from God. If he gets any spiritual revelation, it will be from the devil. 

That is the reason why angels were the agents of communication under the Old Covenant. God could not reveal Himself to natural man, but angels could be seen and heard. Natural man could receive messages from them. A voice could speak out of Sinai that Moses and the elders could hear. 

How different was the Pauline Revelation! 

No angels came to Paul and told him what to write. God was in his spirit, and the Revelation came through the spirit 

God gave to Paul a Revelation of Jesus, an unveiling of Jesus in his spirit. Then his spirit-ruled mind was able to write what the Holy Spirit had given in regard to Jesus.

Since the Fall of man in the Garden, he has been ruled by his five senses. Satan has been his over-lord. 

Natural man had Satan's nature, so it was easy for Satan to reveal his will to him; it is easy for natural man to do the will of Satan. 

The Believer has the nature of the Father, so that it is easy for the Father to reveal Himself to His child through the Living Word. 

You see, the Satan-ruled man cannot know the things of the Spirit. All that he knows are the things of Satan, the god of this world. 

He can understand the deep things of Satan, but he cannot understand the Bible nor its marvelous Revelation. 

This Satan-ruled man believes in experiences; either his own, or the experiences of other people. That is the reason that you can draw a great congregation of unsaved men, if you can get some folks who have had marvelous experiences to tell them. This attracts the man of the senses. 

SENSE KNOWLEDGE FACTS TO PONDER 

We have little appreciated the fact that sense knowledge has had so large a place in the formulating of creeds and doctrines. 

If Love had dominated the writers of doctrines and creeds, there would never have been a division in the Body of Christ. 

Sense Knowledge springs largely from selfish interests and governs our spirits, holding them in bondage, unless the believer has utterly yielded to the Lordship of the Word, to the Lordship of Love, and to the Lordship of the Man Jesus. 

Love binds us together and makes us one. 

Doctrines that separate the church were never born of Love. 

As I have studied Calvinism, I have seen with amazement that it is but a sense knowledge philosophy that seeks to cover itself with scriptural quotations. Arminianism is the same. 

Remember, Truth never separates the Church, never divides it into groups, never makes them antagonitic to each other. 

Experiences based upon the five senses have caused many dissensions.

In that wonderful movement called the Tongues Movement, immature believers who had received that startling demonstration, felt that they could no longer fellowship with anyone who didn't have the same experience. 

Most of us can remember how the Church was divided over the Second Coming of Christ, There was another division on the subject of Divine Healing. 

Sense Knowledge was the separator and the divider. Love would have held us all together. 

The senses are dangerous teachers. 

Experiences, even if based upon works of consecration, of hours of prayer, of confession of sins, cannot be trusted. The Word alone, as unveiled in the Pauline Revelation is the only safe guide. 

Don't misunderstand me. You cannot be guided by the teachings of John the Baptist and of Jesus as recorded in the four Gospels in regard to any experience, unless that teaching of the four Gospels is confrmed, explained, elucidated in the Pauline Revelation, or with Peter's and John's unveiling in their Epistles. 

In the four Gospels, Jesus is dealing almost exclusively with the Jews, the First Covenant people, who were natural men, spiritually dead. 

In the Pauline Revelation, He is dealing almost exclusively with the New Covenant people, the New Creation folks. 

Never preach experiences... PREACH THE WORD! 

The man who preaches experiences and talks of experiences becomes a dangerous leader. 

Let Love interpret the Word. Let Love govern every action, every decision of your life. 

This Jesus kind of Love, Agape, is the very Nature of the Father,and if that governs us, we will be governed by the Father. 

Remember, that the Word is Love speaking to your heart, not always to your reasoning faculties, but to your heart. 

There is no division where Love rules. 

Selfshness is always the senses in supremacy. Remember, the senses are always jealous.

May I offer this suggestion. As a child of God, never seek experiences. Nearly all the experiences are in the senses and these experiences do not give faith in the Word. They give faith in Man's word. 

They believe in healing because they saw men healed. They believe in speaking in tongues because they heard them. 

I believe in healing because the Word teaches it. I believe in speaking in tongues because the Word teaches it, not because someone else has spoken in tongues, or has been healed, or has had some other wonderful experience. 

Never give an experience the first place in your life. The Word must have that. 

We do not need to seek the Holy Spirit, He has already been given. He is here. 

Luke 11:13, "How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?' 

Notice, "your heavenly Father"; that is for a believer. That was not written for the Jews, for He was not the Jews' Heaveniy Father. 

Galatians 3:2 "This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the message of faith?" 

That settles the issue! 

But, you say, the disciples waited ten days. Yes, but they didn't know what they were waiting for. They didn't know that Christ had died for their sins according to the Scripture. 

They didn't know during those ten days why they were waiting in that Upper Room. 

They didn't know anything about His Substitutionary Sacrifice. 

None of then believed in His 7, even when they saw Him after He arose. 

They knew nothing about what the three days and three nights meant to the human race.

They didn't know what Jesus meant when He said they were to tarry and be baptized. They didn't know that baptism meant the New Birth. 

They didn't know anything about indwelling of the Spirit that was to enable them to speak in tongues. They didn't understand it. 

1 Cor. 12:13 "For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greek, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit." That is the New Birth. 

Immersion doesn't mean a filling, for when I immerse one in water, I don't fill them with water. When they were immersed by the Holy Spirit in that Upper Room, they weren't flled with the Spirit until after the immersion. 

The question we should ask is the question that Paul asked the Ephesians, "Ilave ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed?" This is an intelligent question. 

When you ask a believer if he has received his baptism, and the believer is instructed in the Word, he will say, "Certainly, I have received Eternal Life. But if you mean, have I received the Holy Spirit, that is another question.' 

We do not seek for Righteousness. We are made the Righteous-ness of God in Christ. 

We do not seek for power, because we have the Holy Spirit, who raised Jesus from the dead, within us. 

We do not seek for faith, because we are believers. We are not doubters, we are the true Sons of God. 

We are men who act upon the Father's Word just as Jesus acted on His Father's Word. 

This new order of Life, this new type of Christianity that has unveiled to us the truth about sense knowledge and bas made us Masters in the Name of Jesus over the forces that have held us in bondage all our lives, has become a Living Reality. 

We know now what makes an atheist, an atheist, a modernist, a modernist 

We know the why of metaphysics. We understand why men have become philosophers. 

It is all sense knowledge seeking after something to satisfy a hungry human spirit that is craving God. 

These people are all in one class. They are all sense knowledge devotees. They tell me they are scientifc. 

What is science? It is but sense knowledge gathering together certain data. They haven't one thing except what the five senses have contributed.

They are sense knowledge men, oft times drunken with the few facts they have collated, gathered, classified. 

Philosophy is sense knowledge seeking after God. No philosopher ever found God in the realm of philosophy. It is the child of the senses. 

The seeking philosopher finds only himself, for he is seeking in himself. He can't seek outside of himsclf. The natural man cannot find or know aught but himself. The philosopher is a psychical, mental man. 

Psycho-analysis is but discovering oneself. He has not discovered the real self, for he can't find that. The real self is a spirit. 

The only self he has discovered is the mental self that has derived all his knowledge from the five senses. 

When one searches in his inner self, he only finds what he has already built there or else someone else has built. 

Philosophy is a total failure in seeking the solution of the human problem. 

Psychologists have called our human spirit,"a sub-conscious mind." for this searcher in his own self-consciousness, has discovered that there is something besides the reasoning faculties. 

He can't find it nor diagnose it, so he calls it "a sub-conscious mind." 

It is his spirit. That is not the right way of expressing it. It is himself, his spirit, that the reasoning faculties cannot find or understand even if they found it. 

When that spirit receives the Nature of God and gains the ascendancy over the reasoning faculties that get their impulses from the senses, then man can study psychology and get to know himself in Reality. 

There is room for a new psychology, but it will not be called psychology - it would be Spiritology. 

It is knowledge of the activities and operations of the recreated human spirit in its relation to the renewed mind.