Posts by Pressing On Together

Encouragement is fuel for the day. I pray you have one or more people who regularly encourage you. Or circumstances that lift you up. And I pray that you do not have a discourager in your life. What to do if we don’t have encouragers and/or do have discouragers in our own lives: Pray Pray…

Lies We Believe All of us believe lies, some are spiritual lies from the father of lies, Satan (John 8:44); other lies affect our “normal” routines. One of the lies I believe is that when I get caught up, I can rest. That lie keeps me going, which can be good, but it creates stress…

Who is Your Enemy? The owners of that car and truck may think geese are their enemies, especially after they had to clean up the mess! In these dark days, you may regard certain people, officials, politicians, political parties, advocates, or social movements as enemies. You hate, and should hate, murder, abuse, assaults, looting, arson,…

You’re awful. You don’t deserve to go to heaven. I sure don’t deserve heaven, but, then, no one does. What do you mean? I’m way better than you. Yes, but I am not the standard.* Huh? Jesus Christ is the standard. Are you as good as He? I’ve lived a good life. I’m a good…

Change How You Feel Feelings arise from thoughts. To change your emotions, change your thinking. To change your thinking, know the Bible. When I was a new Christian, I remember an illustration about feelings. It was a picture of a train: The engine was the Word of God, pulling a car labeled “thinking,” pulling a…

Evaluate from faith not pride.  The news is filled with stories of “narcissists,” self-centered folks, prideful people. The commonality is that they evaluate what happens based on how it affects them, how it makes them feel.  Of course, everyone, including you and me, is prideful. For Christians, though, we work to stomp it out. (See…

Be Ready Be Alert Good guys do NOT always wear white hats! Bad guys MAY wear white hats! Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:14) We must continually be ready and alert. Be Ready Know the word of God, the Bible. Hide His word in your heart. Be ready to apply…

Scripture tells us to remember who God is and what He has done. Here are two of the reasons: Remembering cures fear, depression, and more. David, when he was in despair, deliberately remembered God. Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I…

Don’t Listen to Lies In the book of Ezekiel, Yahweh declares wrath and woe on the false prophets who speak out of their own imagination. Those false prophets disheartened the righteous and encouraged the wicked (Ezekiel 13:22). They misled Yahweh’s people. They did much harm by “lying to My people who listen to lies.”  (Ezekiel…

False accusations hurt! Job suffered false accusations for much of 35 chapters. Paul, after pouring himself into the Corinthians, was accused by them of not being a true apostle, being deceitful, taking advantage of them, speaking poorly, and more. (2 Corinthians 10-12) Most, or maybe all, of us have been accused of character, motives or…