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#60 / 03 May 2003 Positive Words Newsletter
Editor: Peter Wade ----- http://www.peterwade.com ----- ... the realities of Christ in you and you in Christ! ----- http://www.inChristRadio.net ----- Positive biblical teaching 24 hours, 7 days a week Prosperity to the foreground... This month our teaching emphasis is on prosperity. Both Jesus and the apostle Paul taught many times on finances. We are presenting material this month to help you get into God's flow of abundance. Many have been disappointed or hurt by the emphasis of some preachers, so we felt a need to present a balanced approach. Remember, a counterfeit dollar is evidence that there is a real dollar! Some people do not attend a church regularly and they do not give regularly either, yet wonder why they have challenges in their life -- health challenges, relationship challenges, financial challenges. If you don't take God as your partner, you're on your own, folk! So let's get back to the Word and see what God says about your finances. There is an electronic book you can download, a printed book you can obtain, audio teachings you can listen to or download, and articles you can read. You are without excuse! Insights From My Writing... It’s Not That Easy, God! "This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened..." (Ephesians 4:17-18a). When I first became a Christian and received Christ as my Lord and Savior, my emotions were in the sky –- up there with God and Christ Jesus. Nothing could sway me. I walked around with a smile on my face and praised God that He had chosen me. I knew I was in God’s family and that my citizenship was in the heavenlies, not on the earth. I had learned that revelation knowledge comes by the grace of God. I knew that God’s knowledge is perfect and reliable. His truths are unchangeable. Why then did I begin to dwindle in enthusiasm and excitement? I know the answer now. But then as a babe in Christ, I didn’t understand the difference between spiritual man and the natural man. My enthusiasm was so great that I thought I could walk in the world believing God’s promises and never stumble again. I believed "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). And I still believe God wants me to "... prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers" (III John 2). What I didn’t know is that my mind would be a major area of Satan’s continued attack. I really wasn’t prepared for these constant decisions each day, and I didn’t know enough of God’s Word to counter attack Satan’s deliberate war on my mind. I cannot say my mind is renewed because there is no such thing as a "renewed mind." It is a constant process. I must study and read the Word of God daily and implant into my mind the revelation knowledge God gives to me. I now understand that sense knowledge versus revelation knowledge is a continuing and vicious battle. So I intend to believe God and be victorious. (From "Renewing Your Mind", Chapter 5, by Peter Wade, adapted by Hildy Matthews.) Affirmation: Thank you, Father, for choosing me to be a part of your family. Thank you for teaching me to read your Word daily so that each day my mind becomes more Christ-like. Insights from Every Chapter in the Bible G. Campbell Morgan was a well-known preacher and writer of over 60 books from the first half of the 20th century. In each issue he gives a comment from one verse in every chapter of the Bible. We continue with Paul's letter to the Romans. "As much as in me is" (Romans 1:15). To begin to read this great letter of Paul, is to find ourselves in the very atmosphere of the closing chapters of the book of the Acts. There we found Paul expressing his conviction that he would see Rome; and we followed him through the years of stress that at last brought him there. It was almost certainly during his stay at Corinth, before starting on that long journey, that he wrote this Epistle, which opens with the expression of his desire to come to them. In connection with that expression of desire, he declared that he was ready to preach the Gospel to those in Rome, and then he used this qualifying phrase, "as much as in me is." The phrase seems to me to be at once a recognition of limitation, and of resource. The sense of limitation was the result of his overwhelming consciousness of the greatness of the Gospel. He knew that no one man was equal to its interpretation. And yet, I think, that quite unconsciously to him perhaps, the phrase was a recognition of resource. More lay within this devoted man than his natural capacities. Christ was formed within him: he was indwelt by the Spirit. Hence his ability to preach the Gospel in all its fulness as he did in this very letter. Is not the deduction patent? The measure in which a man is conscious of limitation, is the measure in which he makes possible the operation of those powers which are his in Christ. This email was launched into cyberspace to bless you. There is no paid advertising in this newsletter, only content-rich, inspirational material. Subscription information: To contact us or subscribe, go to our Home Page http://www.peterwade.com. To unsubscribe, send an email to admin at peterwade dot com. This newsletter is never sent unsolicited. You are receiving it because you subscribed. *** Past Issues: http://www.peterwade.com/archive (c) 2003 Peter Wade http://www.peterwade.com http://www.inChristRadio.net |