Tag: Pride

Eight Deadly Thoughts: Diogenes Allen

" ... one of the things I found ... through all spiritual writers, that is people who are concerned with bringing to fullness, in our lives, the work of Christ, and that's the work of God the Holy Spirit....all of them agree that after we are converted we can expect ourselves to be assailed by eight deadly thoughts." Diogenese Allen

“These eight deadly thoughts are like cholesterol, they fill the arteries, so to speak, and the flow of the Spirit is not able to get through easily, and sometime, choked off all together.” These thoughts assail us unbidden – It is important to realize that the thoughts themselves are not sin. Christ was tempted, yet […]

My Grace is Sufficient for You

My grace is sufficient! Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, tokeep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me — to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12: 7-10, mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese

7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9 And He has said to me, […]