Hope & Faith

Faith is sometimes treated like a kind of political skill to be used on God—to convince Him of our position. But while I may be correct in trying to convince another person of my position, I am never correct in trying to convince God. In fact, trying to persuade God to do anything that He doesn't already want to do is a very bad plan indeed.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jeremiah 29:11 KJV)
God is not wringing His hands, wondering what He's going to do with us. He knows exactly what he is thinking (purposing, considering, imagining, conceiving, devising) regarding our future. And none of what He is thinking about us has even a hint of evil, but His thoughts toward us are of peace (prosperity, health, safety).
If this is the attitude of the God who created us, it is difficult to imagine why we would ever try to persuade Him of anything—but we do. (I don't suppose I have ever doubted His good intentions toward me. But I have questioned His responses toward me, as if maybe He didn't know all of the details about my situation.)
But He has more than just good intentions toward us. He has an expected end in mind for us as born‐again believers. And He has all the details to help us get there—the kind of life He expects us to live.
This knowledge should be enough to kill any desire we have to persuade God of our own position. As good as our position might be, God's position is alway

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In addition to the softcover book, "The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself . . . How Loving Yourself the Way God Does Can Bring Healing and Freedom to Your Life," this teaching DVD and companion Study Guide are also now available. This DVD consists of 7 separate sessions (total of 45 minutes) and is designed to be used for individual, small or large group study. Go to http://www.jerryanddenisebasel.com to purchase the physical DVD. To purchase and download the video online, go to https://gumroad.com/l/XPKY

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In "The Missing Commandment: Love Yourself . . . How Loving Yourself the Way God Does Can Bring Healing and Freedom to Your Life," Jerry and Denise Basel explain the importance of allowing God to reclaim and heal every part of us. This video provides a powerful illustration of our need to embrace the child within in order for healing to occur. To read more, go to http://www.jerryanddenisebasel.com or http://www.amazon.com/The-Missing-Commandment-Yourself-Healing/dp/0983992487

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No Other Gospel

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!

10 Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ. Galatians 1:6-10NIV

Whatever you are fasting, if you mope around and feel sorry for your deprivation then you have lost the significance of the fast.

Your focus, in that case, will be on the circumstances and not on Jesus.
If, however, you do not allow whatever you fast to affect you then you have effectively shut off, or at least tuned out, the distractions that are siphoning your attention away from the Lord.

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Except for those times when the Spirit of God fell on them, God lived with the men and women under the old covenant differently than He lives with us. He was external to them, but He is internal to those of us who are born again through Christ.
We have a new heart and a new spirit within us. But what exactly does this mean?
Jesus basically fulfilled everything that needed to be fulfilled when He said, “It is finished.” How He did all this, including the fulfillment of the law and the prophets, is beyond the scope of my brain. But I do know that Jesus is both the beginning and the completion all things (see Revelation 22:33).
Our heart has been transformed by Christ and now has the capacity to contain Him fully through the presence of the Holy Spirit within us. In other words, when we have Jesus within us we effectively have Jesus' fulfillment of the law and the prophets (see Matthew 5:17).
So as a born‐again believer, it is just as impossible for me to fast like they did under the old covenant as it is for me to practice the law like they did under the old covenant. Oh, I can do it, all right, but to do so would be to reject what Jesus did on the Cross. If I were to try to live under the law like they did back in the old days, then I would completely abandon the grace of God.
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit