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is the section you have been waiting for!! At this point
you can look around and be proud of how far you have
come instead of feeling dread over how far you need to
go. The glass is over half full and not half empty. Have
you ever watched a special on TV, or your children
perform in a school play where you felt so much pride it
brought tears to your eyes? That is how God feels about
you right now for coming this far and not giving up.
We all
wish we can say a prayer and BANG! The answer would drop
from the sky. Although that does happen occasionally I
find that with matters of the heart we are being refined
for a purpose and that takes some time. The good thing
is that we come out of the fire way better than when we
went in. I am often asked why God doesn't just answer
prayers in an instant. Being that I am not God I can
only assume that the reason He does this is because if
we got what we wanted when we wanted it, there would be
no need for us to have faith. He wants us to believe in
Him no matter how bad it gets and if He simply gave you
what you wanted when you wanted it, you would go off and
focus on the thing He gave you instead of focusing on
Him. How sad to be a parent and give your children the
world only to have them ignore you and only spend time
with you when they need something. How would you feel?
The
Bible says that "The prayers of a righteous man availeth
much" (James 5:16). Do you have any idea what it takes
to be righteous? I do all right until I get out of bed
in the morning and then it goes down hill. The Bible
tells us of the basic rules or commandments we should be
following but with people living in the flesh as deeply
as we do in this age just TRY to tell them to live
according to the Ten Commandments. The sad part is that
those rules have been written to conform to any age. It
is not the mere words we find within each commandment it
is the principle that is embedded within them for
eternity.
We
travel through life with choices. God has blessed us
with a free will to choose right from wrong and He will
NEVER override your free will. The most popular way is
not always the righteous way. Living a righteous life
requires us to take the path less traveled and sometimes
that path is tough to navigate than the one that is
traveled frequently. (Mathew 7:13-14) When we live an
upright life God listens to our prayers and He answers
them.
Take
some time to learn what being righteous is. You'll be
surprised at how far we tend to stray during the course
of our lives...
The above is an
excerpt from "A
Course in Heartbreak"
- Other lessons in Step Four of the course include:
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How to get answers to your prayers |
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The basic rules of righteousness |
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The straight and narrow vs. the wide and broad |
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The bad rap-born agains |
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Your thoughts become your destiny |
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What NOT to pray for |
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Drinking water out of your own well |
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Delayed because of action |
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Perseverance is a comforting priority |
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Removing all obstacles |
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Loving and unbeliever |
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Let go and Let God |
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Getting what we give |
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Spiritual maturity through spiritual milk. |
A
Course in Heartbreak is almost 200 pages of lessons
designed to help you avoid the pitfalls of standing for
a broken relationship. The Course is designed to guide
you through the lessons God is teaching you without
getting caught in the traps the devil sets for us. All
material found on the Seven Steps pages are Copyright
2003 HeartbreakUniversity.org©. Copyright registration
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No material may be copied, shared or sold without the
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