Settling refers to lowering your standards, compromising, to decrease your desire for something or to give in to the demands of someone else. My guest, Michael Lombardo, and I talk about this subject of our inheritance in God and not settling for less than God has for us on this episode of Everyday Discernment on …
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My guest this week on Everyday Discernment on the Charisma Podcast Network is Pastor Vlad Savchuk, who has an amazing new book called Fight Back. He teaches about the importance of Christians moving from deliverance to dominion. This requires effort on our part by moving in God’s strength and not our own. Vlad tells how …
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If you are a parent, you know how kids can ask for just about anything and everything. They have no regard or understanding as to whether it is good for them or if it is within the family budget. They just ask, sometimes out of selfish motives, for things they want … I mean “need.” …
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Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” This verse directs us to be our children’s first teacher. Don’t wait for someone else to teach them. Also, validate what they are learning from other sources. I find it interesting …
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The idea of accountability is not something for which most people love to volunteer. Some people are naturally accountable to feedback, listen earnestly and decipher how they can improve based on if the feedback was constructive or not. Other people, however, get very defensive when they receive feedback; they make excuses, and find other people …
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If you are in crisis, please call 1-800-273-8255 or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You are not alone. It seems to me that our Christian culture has made it a sin to despair, question God or be just downright sad. However, the Bible is filled with mighty men of God who struggled with God, questioned God, sought their …
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Do you remember discussions in grade school about what you wanted to be when you grew up? I never knew how to respond; I usually came up with something that sounded cool just to satisfy the teacher asking. Maybe I did not have high aspirations; I was never one who knew exactly what I wanted …
Do you desire promotion but not the process to get there? It’s easy as a kid to idolize all types of celebrities and want to be like them. I was very much into basketball when I was in my early teens. I would spend hours outside shooting hoops, pretending to be Michael Jordan sinking the …
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Sin does not hold back; sin gets what it wants at any cost. Sin can control our thoughts and actions if we let it. Our human nature is sinful. A recent episode of the Everyday Discernment podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network shares how only by correcting it with the transforming power of Jesus’ work …
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When you are young, time seems never-ending. You want it to speed up because you can’t wait to get older. When you are older, you want time to slow down because you know your time here on earth is limited. William Penn said, “Time is what we want most, but what, alas! We use worst.” …
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