MARY T CAVAZOS

You must first seek the kingdom of God. You will be fed and clothed. To me the promise means that if I put God

Giving is one of the gifts mentioned in Romans 12:6-8. It is part of the ministry and God rewards all who work for His kingdom. As the scripture shows in 2Cor 9:11 Paul says that they will be made rich so they can be generous all the time. Although I believe tithing is one of the Old Testament laws that was done away with when the new covenant was made, I do think that we are all to give all we can to not only support our church but also the missions and people who are in need. The only New Testament reference that I can find to tithing is when Jesus is talking to the Pharisees in Mt23:23. I believe that when He told them not to neglect the others He was speaking to them as Jews, who still had that custom. When the big controversy was going on about the Gentiles keeping the Jewish laws it was made quite clear that the Gentile Christians were not meant to take on the Jewish customs. Forgive me Pastor Ralph, but I think that church leaders have decided to keep this law in effect in order to get more revenue for their churches.

The basis of Paul

A prosperity doctrine can threaten Christian ministry because it can cause someone to turn to God for the wrong reasons. I have heard quite a few preachers preach if you pay your tithes then you will get back ten-fold. I have seen a lot of people pay tithes because they believe that expecting to get out of the financial trouble that they are in and there are no results. Sure there are people who do reap when they pay tithes, but there are just as many who suffer great financial burdens when they do. Enough said about tithes that is a whole other topic that I don

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Like you said in your lesson, you have to concentrate on the task at hand if we are going to succeed in what we attempt to accomplish. We are human, we have carnal minds. We have to force ourselves to focus on the Godly. I think that although Satan can

By thanking God for the request that we make we are showing faith. We are seeing the granting of the prayer as we are making it. Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. By offering thanksgiving in our prayer we are increasing our faith, the more we use it the more we get.

I think that rejoicing is a strong feeling of joy that can

Paul like Jesus, knew that some people need a role model to follow. He was only following Christ

Being called upwards by God is like feeling the love of someone that you hold very special in your heart, someone that you love and they want to spend time with you. Like being chosen one out of many for a very important position. I think that anyone who is a real Christian has been called by God at some point or another. I think that God

I think that sometimes we can look at the past and get depressed over things that might have turned out differently. When that happens we feel sorry for ourselves and lose our focus on Jesus. I sometimes think about the things in this life that I used to have and don

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Righteousness obtained through the law can only fail. Jesus Christ is the only human who could keep every law that was given( remember there was over 600 laws to follow, not just the 10 commandments). If we believe that Jesus will give us the grace we need to be righteous, then that righteousness can not fail because it comes from God. I think that society in general looks at a person

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Sure I have struggled with

We are to hold fast the Word, we are to live it. It is not enough to just believe, even Satan believes the Word of God. He quotes scripture, but we are to put that Word to use in our daily lives. The purpose of the Church is to seek and save those that are lost. How can we get others to live the Word if we are not living IT ourselves? If we are applying it to our every day lives then we won

Complaining and arguing is like a cloud covering up our love. When we do this it is not letting love show. When we stop the complaining and the arguing and see other peoples opinions as valid points we are able to grow and develop a deeper relationship. We let the light of God

I think that the Philippians were to work out their own salvation by working out the problems they were having, because the disagreements were not in the will of God. Evidently some were grumbling and complaining maybe about what they were expected to do, maybe they were like Martha complaining about what others were not doing. Not necessarily salvation from

Jesus was really human. He was born, He lived and He died. He felt emotions and pain. These verses teach that He was human not just pretending. It makes a big difference whether Jesus was really human or not. The reason God came to earth as man was to provide a way to our salvation. Since Satan had taken control of the earth when Adam and Eve sinned, God needed a man that would be able to take back the possession of the earth. If He was not human this would not have been able to be accomplished.

To me the term that Christ didn

These two verses teach that we will be in heaven immediately after death. Also Jesus told the thief on the cross

Whatever the fear is it is from Satan.

If we don

Making it through life

Paul asks for discernment so that the Philippians will know what is pleasing to God. The result will be a closer relationship with God. The better we know what pleases or displeases a person the better we are equipped to do those things that will make that person happy. By being selfish in our relationships we are looking at what we want and not at the needs and desires of the other person. We lose sight of making that person happy. In the most important relationship, that one with God, we risk losing the relationship that we do have. We see over and over in the Old Testament that He is a jealous God. He wants to be first and foremost in our lives. By striving for the good things in this life, we are getting our gratification from the riches of this world instead of from God and doing what pleases Him. God is the best thing in our lives and by desiring those things more than Him we can destroy that relationship. This is only relationship that really matters. I want to know what is pleasing to God, I look forward to hearing those words