by Bill Elliff
July 12, 2024
I doubt the title above is very enticing. Nobody wants their life to be shipwrecked. But it happens.
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by Bill Elliff
July 10, 2024
It’s easy to make much of myself. To think of myself—what I want or think I need, what I feel others think about me, my aches and pains and discomforts, how it’s going with me, and how it could be better—I could go on for hours. Without hardly any effort, I can spend my day consumed with thoughts of little else.
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by Bill Elliff
June 27, 2024
If you want to understand why you have trouble pursuing God, it is because you are convinced other things are more important. We treasure power, possessions, popularity, the applause of men, comfort, and pleasure, and the list goes on. We dart from one thing to the next, thinking it will give us the satisfaction we crave.
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by Bill Elliff
June 25, 2024
If we’re not careful, our souls can pull us away from intimacy with Christ and drive our lives. We can live soulish, carnal (fleshly) lives even though Christ is in us. This is the source of all our difficulties in the Christian life. So, how do we handle our souls?
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by Bill Elliff
June 21, 2024
God will always empower us for the tasks He wants accomplished … if we will ask
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by Bill Elliff
June 14, 2024
Christ is now with me and, by His Spirit, IN me! I have everything I need because I have Him, and He has me. I am alive because He lives in me. This means I have all the power I need to live in this world, and I can enter into the next.
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by Bill Elliff
June 13, 2024
Most people struggle with a man-pleasing spirit. We all want to be liked. Out of that desire, we often do or say things (or do NOT do or say things) purely to gain the favor of others.
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by Bill Elliff
May 29, 2024
Read John 6 repeatedly and ask Jesus to reveal Himself to you. You will be awed by His quiet trust. Stunned by His selflessness. Challenged by His boldness to speak and humbled by the lack of need for the approval of men. And you will be called to do the same for the glory of God.
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by Bill Elliff
May 27, 2024
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by Bill Elliff
April 30, 2024
To resist anywhere is to restrict everywhere. One private closet, one unsurrendered plot of ground, gives the devil a foothold he doesn’t deserve but will use to maximum advantage. This is why God is in the continual process with His children of helping them relax their hands on the whole.
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by Bill Elliff
April 24, 2024
Are you weak, insufficient, or trembling when you face tasks or people? Not as well trained as others? Don’t have the abilities or experience of the more recognized? Don’t let it stop you. Your weakness is the doorway to His strength if you will trust Him.
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by Bill Elliff
March 26, 2024
Want to live an uncomplicated life? Get in the right posture every day (dependence upon God and a humble willingness to follow the promptings of His Spirit and the illumination of His Word). Follow His leadership. God (and His love) will flow through you, and you will fulfill everything He desires. You will be astounded by His love … and so will a watching world.
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