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You're blessed when...

Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵 31/7/2020 Text: Matthew 5:1-12 (Message Bible) [1](1-2) When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him. Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his climbing companions. This is what he said: [3]"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. [4]"You're blessed when you feel you've lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you. [5]"You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought. [6]"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat. [7]"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'care-f...

Establishing unwavering belief.

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵 30/7/2020 Please read carefully, it might as well be the most important Spirit Breakfast I've shared so far this year... Text: 2 Timothy 1:12 (King James Version) For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. All over the globe we see many leaving the faith. Many rejecting God and His Son. Many are shunning the Christ in the name of enlightenment and illumination. This trend seems to be prevalent with the younger generation. They are a class of people who haven't been able to balance the truth of what they've been taught and the realities of life. Many of these individuals were believers from infancy, children of devoted believers, children of pastors and spiritual leaders, some of them even held offices in the body of Christ, and some were even pastors. When I see such devia...

Temptation comes from our desires

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵 29/7/2020 Text: James 1:12-18 (Message Bible) [12]Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life. [13](13-15) Don't let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, "God is trying to trip me up." God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one's way. The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust. Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer. [16](16-18) So, my very dear friends, don't get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown...

Profiting from challenges

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵 28/7/2020 Text: James 1:2-8 (Message Bible) [2](2-4) Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. [5](5-8) If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves. Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open. Have a graced day... #SpiritBreakfast™ #TestimonyTuesday™ #PastorMuve™ #power #profit #tests #challenges #trials #faith #patience #perfection #wisdom #ask #believe

Shout praises to God

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵 27/7/2020 Text: Psalms 97:1-12 (Message Bible) [1]God rules: there's something to shout over! On the double, mainlands and islands—celebrate! [2]Bright clouds and storm clouds circle 'round him; Right and justice anchor his rule. [3]Fire blazes out before him, Flaming high up the craggy mountains. [4]His lightnings light up the world; Earth, wide-eyed, trembles in fear. [5]The mountains take one look at God And melt, melt like wax before earth's Lord. [6]The heavens announce that he'll set everything right, And everyone will see it happen—glorious! [7](7-8) All who serve handcrafted gods will be sorry— And they were so proud of their ragamuffin gods! On your knees, all you gods—worship him! And Zion, you listen and take heart! Daughters of Zion, sing your hearts out: God has done it all, has set everything right. [9]You, God, are High God of the cosmos, Far, far higher than any of the gods. [10]God loves all who ha...

Think of yourself the way Jesus thought of Himself

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵 25/7/2020 Text: Philippians 2:1-11 (Message Bible) [1](1-4) If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. [5](5-8) Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the st1atus of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incr...

The Good Shepherd

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Spirit Breakfast 🍞🍵 24/7/2020 Text: John 10:11-18 (Message Bible) [11](11-13) "I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices himself if necessary. . A hired man is not a real shepherd. The sheep mean nothing to him. He sees a wolf come and runs for it, leaving the sheep to be ravaged and scattered by the wolf. He's only in it for the money. The sheep don't matter to him. [14](14-18) "I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me. In the same way, the Father knows me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before myself, sacrificing myself if necessary. You need to know that I have other sheep in addition to those in this pen. I need to gather and bring them, too. They'll also recognize my voice. Then it will be one flock, one Shepherd. This is why the Father loves me: because I freely lay down my life. And so I am free to take it up again. No one takes it from me. I lay it down of my own fre...