Mark Drake International

YESTERDAY IN AFRICA

What Are We Teaching With This Terrible Sunday School Song?

IN 1997, I BEGAN DEFINING GRACE AS CHRIST LIVING HIS LIFE IN AND THROUGH US. NOW I FIND I’M IN GOOD COMPANY- This is from Rick Warren. You need more power than just willpower in your life. You need God’s power in your life.... The fruit of the Spirit are the qualities that God puts in your life when the Holy Spirit lives through you. They are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. How does God produce the fruit in your life? Not by willpower. You don’t go out and say, I’m going to be a more patient person! That doesn’t work. The Holy Spirit has to grow it on the inside. You try to say, I’m going to be more patient. I’m going to be more loving. It’s like tying some oranges on a eucalyptus tree and calling it an orange tree. It doesn’t work that way. Fruit can only come from the inside his Spirit living through you. How does the Holy Spirit work in your life? The answer is gradually: And the Lord who is the Spirit makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image (2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT emphasis mine).

You will go to Heaven when you die if your faith is in Christ. But the journey on the way there will be frustrating, fearful and condemning unless you understand what the New Testament believers meant when they talked about grace. markdrake.org

WHAT DO THESE 3 POINTS MEAN? AND HOW DO THEY CHANGE THE WAY WE VIEW OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD? Col 2:13-14 He forgave us all our sins, ... having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. -He forgave ALL our sins? Or just the ones before our new birth? -He canceled the WRITTEN CODE? Canceled the Law or do we still have to do it ALL? -He took the WRITTEN CODE and nailed it to the cross? This all seems very important to Paul!

HAVE WE MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AN OVERCOMER?

Were Adam and Eve choosing fruit to eat? Or were they choosing who to listen to? From Mark’s podcast You Can’t Change; But You Can Choose. https://podcasts.apple.com//podca/mark-drake/id1084830049

We just need to stay on the potter's wheel....and let Him repair our brokenness....

I can’t experience the peace that passes all understanding unless I am facing trouble I can’t understand! markdrake.org

Just run to the Father. Again and again and again... https://youtu.be/_TRrvYZFkSc