I find many Christians and people have their own agenda in life and can get easily side-tracked. It could be life experiences. One side-track for me is I believe in eating healthy, but that is a conviction that has occurred because I lost my husband to a heart attack. I see how even if 10% of poor eating habits contributed to his death from his eating habits is enough for me to change. I could go around and start a crusade of eating better. Go talk on a regular basis about eating healthy. I met a physician who is writing a book about eating healthy and he is a runner in marathons. What I found is dropped 30 lbs. is a witness in itself that I look and feel healthier. But that is not my “primary calling” it’s more of side conviction in life. I don’t want to get “side-tracked” in life. It’s like having a sidekick. (A sidekick is a close companion who is generally regarded as subordinate to the one he accompanies.)
The Jews thought that Jesus would lead a revolt against Rome. There have been a number of revolts in this world. Just type in revolution and you see the many revolutions there have been through life.
Martin Luther led a reformation in challenging the authority of the pope and the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money.
Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against discrimination on race in the workplace, public transportation and restaurant facilities. The movie “The Help” talks about that discrimination.
There was a was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the Western world from the 1960s into the 1980s, which included a woman’s right to her own body and the right to choose abortion. Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office.
Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic. We have the right to bear arms here in the United States.
Some people may want to argue the rights and wrongs of our society. There are various organizations that do this. Jesus did not come to start a revolution, but he came to start a revolution which was to change men’s hearts. The people did not want to change, the religious leaders were concerned about Jesus and the law being changed or removed. This is why Jesus responded, to clarify his mission “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill it” (Matt 5:17). He brought the law’s requirements to completion.
The Jews thought that Jesus would lead a revolt against Rome. There have been a number of revolts in this world. Just type in revolution and you see the many revolutions there have been through life.
Martin Luther led a reformation in challenging the authority of the pope and the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money.
Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against discrimination on race in the workplace, public transportation and restaurant facilities. The movie “The Help” talks about that discrimination.
There was a was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the Western world from the 1960s into the 1980s, which included a woman’s right to her own body and the right to choose abortion. Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office.
Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic. We have the right to bear arms here in the United States.
Some people may want to argue the rights and wrongs of our society. There are various organizations that do this. Jesus did not come to start a revolution, but he came to start a revolution which was to change men’s hearts. The people did not want to change, the religious leaders were concerned about Jesus and the law being changed or removed. This is why Jesus responded, to clarify his mission “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill it” (Matt 5:17). He brought the law’s requirements to completion.
There was social injustice back in his time. Slavery, women bought and sold. Jesus talked about the sins of his generation. (Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation." Matthew 12:45).
Jesus did not try to change the monetary (banking) or political system (Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar). There was much corruption. During the trial of Jesus Pilate and Herod became friends. The forces of evil starting aligning. Later, Spartacan led a revolt to try to free the slaves from the Romans. He warned about the hypocrisy of the religious leaders. (Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs. Luke 12:-3)
What is your primary passion in life? It’s like choosing a work career. You want to work in a job that you enjoy. I enjoy working on computers and I use a computer in the work place. I’ve been using computers since I was 24 years old. It started out with data entry, than I was a word processor for a law firm, than I did a lot of tracking in databases on an IBC PC, so I went into computer programming, now I do more spreadsheets for data and computer graphic works for brochures. I hope to continue in my evolution in the future to have maybe a consulting job in using Adobe After Effects and Video Editing or Flash animation. Using computer software is a “passion” of mine.
How many computer graphics people does it take to change a light bulb? None because it’s a hardware problem. I hate fixing or installing computers with a passion, I only like using the software. I also like hard coding a website (the JavaScript coding behind the website).
There are just a number of talents/gifts we may have in life and we have to consider what talent or gift God wants us to use. A person started the Amber Alert because their child was kidnapped, I know a couple whose teenage son drowned here at my work place from sniffing automobile coolant to get high. He jumped in pool and he drowned; now they go around and they talk to other couples about warning signs of drug abuse for teenagers. With becoming widowed, I go in the direction of a new calling of God, it’s the same when I was divorced which is to help single parents (Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27)
It talks about “abiding in our calling.” Many of these women do not have the influence of their fathers and it’s an absence of a father role. I went through that same experience. In the lack of financial and emotional support for my children. I’m not interested in someone’s agenda; I’m interested in what the Spirit is speaking to the churches and what he is telling me to do. (He, who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. Revelation 2:7)
Some of our “agenda’s” have been giving through experiences or our “callings in life.” I know I will frustrate the grace of God if I don’t fulfill my calling to reach the people that God has called me to reach. Those souls in the same boat. Leading is by example. (And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. 1 Cor. 11:1). What everyone has to determine is what is God’s agenda in their life, i.e. what he has called you to do. I still help married couples and those wanting to get married especially step families, because I lived in a step-family relationship for almost 15 years.
Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him. 1 Cor. 7:20
Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him. 1 Cor. 7:20
Were you a slave when you were called? Don't let it trouble you--although if you can gain your freedom, do so. 1 Cor. 7:21
vs. 24 Brothers, each man, as responsible to God, should remain in the situation God called him to.
Paul repeats the verse twice!
I try to be sensitive and follow the calling or leading of God in my life. When my children were teenagers I ministered to teens in the prisons. I find when you sow good seed into other people’s life the seed comes back to you. Same now, most of my healing and encouragement in life has come from helping other widows in my situation.
I try to be sensitive and follow the calling or leading of God in my life. When my children were teenagers I ministered to teens in the prisons. I find when you sow good seed into other people’s life the seed comes back to you. Same now, most of my healing and encouragement in life has come from helping other widows in my situation.
Beatles: A Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78
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