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Don’t Think About It! Have you ever been told not to think about something? Or, maybe, you’ve told yourself to stop thinking about something. You may have done this exercise as a party game or in corporate training. “Picture an elephant.” ………… “Now stop thinking about the elephant.” How did that work for you? Probably…

Uh-Oh. Someone is on the wrong side! When someone asks for forgiveness, I’ve sometimes said: “There is nothing to forgive.” And a friend recently said that to me for something I felt bad about. I wonder if that is right. For some reason the person and I asked for forgiveness. It could be a mis-directed…

facebook.com/harry-mouse+durgin God knows everything. He is omniscient. OLord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on…

Too often I will pray for something God has already given me. My problem isn’t that I lack God’s resources but that I don’t apply His provision in my life. Don’t Pray to Receive What You Already Have If I pray for strength to cope with something, or the ability to do what He told…

God is sovereign over everything and everybody all the time. Period. (See Chapters 2-5 in When Storms Come: Will You Be Ready?) Does that mean God is sovereign over our sins? Yes. God is sovereign over our sins, but we are entirely responsible for them. God does not cause evil, He is not tempted by evil, nor does…

Regret We all have past actions—past sins—we regret. We may have spent considerable time reprimanding ourselves. We may still be stuck in that past sin. Regretting sin is a good thing if it leads to godly sorrow, repentance, and determination to follow the Lord. (See, for example, 2 Corinthians 7). But it is not a…