DECISION, DIRECTION & FOCUS

Have you been making a lot of effort to succeed in something? Maybe in a relationship, maybe trying to please God, maybe bearing a heavy yoke in your job or in something else... Jesus wants you to know that He desires you to have mercy on yourself. He wants you to know that He is actually NOT pleased with what you are doing. Because that is not the way of living that He designed for you. "But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."  Matthew 9: 13 What Jesus is saying above is that He LITERALLY is not interested in the righteous. Because everybody is a sinner. So those who TRY to be righteous are not interesting to Him because He desires mercy and not sacrifice. He desires authenticity, honesty. He prefers if you are honest with yourself assuming what you really want and what you really don't. When you try to succeed in something with too much effort, despising ...

God has given to all wives a unique privilege. The privilege of submission. Maybe this just offended some of you, but keep reading and you will see why submission is a good thing. When we submit to our husbands despite what he does, says or thinks, we give God permission to lead our marriage. In this post I will explain more about that, exposing to you the power of submission and the effects of doing it or not doing it. Some women think that it's absurd to submit to an evil husband. But let me show you what happened when these two women decided to embrace submission at any cost, no matter what was happening. My first example is Abigail. She had an evil husband. But she continued fearing God, respecting and submitting to her husband. The obedience that she had to God did not depend on her husband's behavior or if her husband obeyed God or not. God was looking and observing Abigail's position and her reaction/ response to her husband's wickedness. She kept he...