SAGITTARIUS: VICTORY Will Be Yours!

Could it be that our grandest test of faith is how we treat each person and each situation at love – holding to the Greatest Commandment? (Matthew 22:37-39) If we were true to this test we may quickly shun many of the things we instinctively say or do or give approval to; where divisions are caused – in ‘the name of God’, no less.

Regularly, though not as often as I would like, I wait until the business of the day is gone and the sky has darkened and I go out and sit in my backyard. It is quite dark though the small, dim backyard lights from my yard and the yards of neighbors soften the darkness and off in the distance I can see reflections of the downtown lights in the night sky.

The Mayan prophecy for 2012 was not for the destruction of the Earth. It was for the destruction of the Old Age of Pisces and all it out dated energies and institutions. The new age of Aquarius will herald in new energies and new ways to do things.

A lot of us Christians have the misconception that once we have given our lives to Christ & have accepted him as our Lord & personal Savior then all of our problems will just somewhat miraculously despair. However, it it’s only a matter of time before reality sinks in & we realize that that’s not always the case. As a matter of fact, that’s just the beginning of a long & very often challenging journey in our Christian walk! In no time, we realize that all the problems that we were facing before we became born again Christians are still very much present in our lives.

We read our world through the eyes of the filters of our personality, experiences, and values – in sum, our perceptions. We make attributions with what we see quicker than we can even understand. Add to this the fact we’re all spiritual beings, searching for meaning in life; we more easily find the wrong answers, thinking they’re right for us.

When traveling around the block or across the globe, you can easily create opportunities to be a good witness. Carry along the Bible and people will ask you questions and make comments.

If a fellow Christian would ask you on what your score is in regards to the people you have shared the gospel to (this includes the people you have mentored and the people whose lives have been impacted by your life), how would you respond? This is neither an offensive question nor a question that tries to belittle your efforts. It is simply a query that the person wants you to answer. So again, what is your score?

Dr. Irving Kirsch, a research scientist at Harvard, has been studying the placebo effect for over 30 years and has found that in most cases, placebos work as well as the standard medications prescribed by most physicians for various illnesses. Placebos are even as or more effective in common surgeries, meaning instead of performing an actual surgery, the surgery was faked and the patients recovered just as well as those who had the actual surgery.

Even the strongest among us have wrestled with self-doubt, times or seasons when one doubts one’s abilities or strengths to complete a project or to continue with a job or to just to do anything right. This can lead to melancholy and dejection. So what to do when these saboteurs enter our minds?

This article displays the kinds of heart we have toward God’s word the bible. It shows what happens to the Word if we are not receptive to what God has to say.

Mercy and forgiveness are about no longer exchanging negative energy with someone else, an experience or even a situation that involved several people. Choosing forgiveness releases you from repeating an experience in another place and time with another person or group of people with different faces and different names.

Since the fall of man in the garden of Eden, man has been in an endless quest to find satisfaction, peace, joy and contentment. Every effort always ends up in emptiness. Material things like sex, fame, fortune, prestige and power may seem to satisfy temporarily, then that void emerges again in our spirit. I realize that this is a controversial subject. Some believe that there’s everlasting life and others don’t, but God has given us the choice. The Pharisees believed in resurrection but the Sadducees didn’t, nevertheless, Jesus resurrected from the dead according to the scriptures. Let’s briefly explore what the scripture says about this subject. Let God be true and every person a liar.