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Month: March 2020

Posted on March 31, 2020March 28, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 70: Anxiety Weakens Our Faith

We know that anxiety isn't good for our faith.  We aren't moving mountains…we are barely able to function.  We aren't facing hardship with faith and peace, we are hiding in our houses and touching lightposts. These are not the fruits of faith. The first way anxiety weakens our faith is through the fact that we…

Posted on March 30, 2020March 28, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 69: Practical Steps

So how do we actually do this? 1) Know your Bible.  Know the promises that Jesus earned for you.  Make no mistake, you did not and cannot earn any of them.  Jesus can and did. 2)   Write down the promises.  WRITE THEM DOWN. 3) Put your name in them "And the peace of God ....will guard <your…

Posted on March 29, 2020March 28, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 68: Not A Slave To Fear

Now this is a very important verse: Romans 8:15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. ASV  You see, we can have the spirit of fear, or we can choose not to.  It is a choice we make.  If…

Posted on March 28, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 67: Anxiety As A False Power

  It is also false power, which is from the devil.  If there is nothing I can do to solve a situation, then me worrying about it makes the situation worse.  However, we worry because we think it helps.  It is superstition:  "If I think about the bad, if I worry about it, then it…

Posted on March 11, 2020March 7, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 66: Fear As Disobedience

  Now why would He tell us not to be anxious?  Well because it elevates fear above the Lord.  It can even be a form of idolatry.  If I am obeying my anxiety, I am expressing no trust in God.  I am saying to God "I think that this problem is out of Your control,…

Posted on March 10, 2020March 7, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 65: More Explanation of Anxiety as Sin

Let’s look again at Philippians... 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.  4:5 Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.  4:6 In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  4:7 And the…

Posted on March 9, 2020March 7, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 64: Temptation Of Sin Of The Mind

1Co 10:13 - No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. NIV Temptation of sin of…

Posted on March 8, 2020February 27, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 63: You Have To Keep Pushing Yourself

You have to keep pushing yourself.  You have to make it farther.  Every time you try, even if you don’t do as well as you would like, you are making progress to the day that you will be free. It will seem very slow at first—two steps forward, one step back.  It will seem like…

Posted on March 6, 2020February 27, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 62: Their God Is Their Stomach

Philippians 3:12.Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13.Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and…

Posted on March 5, 2020February 27, 2020 by theintellectualchristian

Shredding The Paper Tiger 61: Accusations

  Romans 8:33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth; 34 who is he that condemneth? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall…

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