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Once we begin to focus on being thankful, it changes our outcome on life. It can even rearrange our circumstances to line up to God’s perfect will for our lives. By being thankful, we turn our attention to the goodness of God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In our last post we learned about the triune nature of man, and that we are comprised of spirit, soul, and body.

As we continue our study, it is important for us to understand the triune nature of man. According to scripture man is comprised of three parts.

o walk in the spirit (Galatians 5:16-25), we must first train our minds to discern our spiritual senses. We can do this by learning to focus our attention on our spirit as we go throughout our day. This is not always an effortless process and requires a lifetime commitment to learning and growing in the things of God.

My wife had a dear friend who was very close to her. This friend even moved into our neighborhood to be close by. The two worked at the same company for many years, and were quite transparent with each other concerning their personal lives, challenges, and difficulties they were facing on their jobs.

We are living in a generation where truth is increasingly being considered hate speech. It has become a generation where many leaders and authority figures (including parents) are terrified to confront issues with the truth for fear of being labeled insensitive, legalistic, hateful, unloving, or uncaring.

Recently Face the Nation ran a special program on AI generated content. The episode was entitled “How to differentiate AI-generated images and videos from real ones.”

There is a war of ideas and beliefs waging throughout our world like never before. It has brought division among governments, politicians, families, and friends. Most of these divisions come from differences of opinions, media hype and spin, and not what’s true.

We will try to wrap up this series on ‘Ways God Speaks’ in this post. However, this topic is so broad and deep it could take another ten or more posts to cover the subject well. In John chapter 17 we read the following: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3 

Another way God speaks is through dreams. We can see this clearly in scripture and it might surprise you to learn how powerful divinely inspired dreams are when properly interpreted.

Let’s continue our study on the ways God speaks or communicates with us by learning about mental visions or pictures, or what I sometimes call mini visions.

We have been examining ways God speaks and have looked at hearing God or receiving His communication through the ‘Word,’ the ‘still small voice,’ and the ‘witness of the Spirit.’

In today’s post we will look at another way God speaks to us— one that is probably the most common nonverbal way He communicates.

We have been looking at ways God speaks to us. In our last few posts we examined God speaking through His written word and others. Today we will look what the Bible calls the “still small voice.”

The other day I was speaking with my daughter and mentioned this series on “Ways God Speaks.” She said something like, “God often uses people to speak to us” and it arrested my attention.

In our last post we established the importance of the Word of God as our foundation. As we know the Word, we can more easily discern the...

Once we accept the fundamental truth that God wants to speak to us, we can begin to learn the ways He speaks or communicates.   Many...

In this series we will look at some of the primary ways God speaks to us, including verbal and non-verbal communications.

We have discussed the dangers of covetousness and greed, but have not dealt much with what it means to be content. Contentment can seem like a relative thing to some, but the Bible clearly says... "Now godliness with contentment is great gain. "

And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses."  Luke 12:15

“Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.” Oswald Chambers

Recently, my wife and I were at the checkout in Walmart. The cashier was a Christian, and while she rang up my groceries, we talked...

When the Bible instructs us to do something it becomes our responsibility to act upon it because it is not a suggestion....

Many years ago, I was driving on I-25 towards New Mexico and suddenly ran out of gas.