2008-08-29T01:30:10-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/faithfulness http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Shrinking-Your-God-4457 2008-08-29T01:30:10-05:00 Faith is the key that unlocks all the great things God has for you. And He isn't about to let your faith stay the same size. He's in the faith-enlargement business. He's let something come into your life that defies human solution, that overwhelms human answers, so you can experience how big your King really is. When the bad news gets "badder," your God does not get smaller. He's still the Sovereign Lord, the great and powerful God. Let yourself be overwhelmed by the God you have - and you'll find that nothing but Him is truly overwhelming! http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Only-Two-Days-On-Your-Calendar-4481 2008-08-29T00:36:17-05:00 Martin Luther said he had only two days on his calendar: Judgment Day and this day. It's the only day I can live right now. I don't need to be weighed down with yesterday. It can't be changed. I don't need to be fretting about the future. I'm not there yet and I can't control it. What I have is today, one 24-hour slice of life in which to honor my Lord in everything I do. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Faith-Launching-4487 2008-08-29T00:30:48-05:00 If you belong to Jesus, there are people around you who could use some faith right now for what they're facing - but they may need the "jumper cable" of your faith to inspire them to trust God in a big way. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Beautiful-Truth-about-Life-s-Ugliest-Words-4529 2008-08-28T16:28:42-05:00 Amazing faith is all about authority and what authority will decide the outcome in your situation. Amazing faith believes that Jesus will decide the outcome and nothing else! The disease won't decide it, the boss won't decide it, the economy won't decide it, your enemies won't decide it, the odds won't decide it, the devil won't decide it - Jesus will decide it! http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Someone-s-In-My-Room-4426 2008-08-28T14:13:38-05:00 It happened to our Lord before. The Book of Revelation makes it clear that it happened, for example, among some believers in a place called Laodicean. In chapter 3, we learn that they thought they were doing pretty well - they said they were rich and they didn't need a thing. But Jesus said they were lukewarm spiritually - a temperature that He said He would spew out of His mouth. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/Directed-by-the-Dispatcher-4428 2008-08-28T14:11:23-05:00 Now, you don't have to be in law enforcement to have a life directed by the dispatcher. In fact, that's how you're supposed to live every day if you belong to Jesus Christ; listening to the inner voice from headquarters and doing immediately what the Heavenly Dispatcher tells you to do. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/It-Really-Is-How-You-Play-The-Game-4406 2008-08-28T11:34:10-05:00 Well, at least on God's team. That's why Jesus' finish line commendation for His players will be, "Well done, good and faithful servant" (Matthew 25:21), not "Well done, good and successful servant." What God cares about - what God rewards - is an all-out effort. The results are in His hands. The effort is in yours. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Standing-Against-The-Tide-4307 2008-08-27T16:56:43-05:00 Some great places have been really damaged by the slow process of erosion. So have some great people. That's why you've got to make the choices that will stop the erosion in your life. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Mission-Accomplished-4317 2008-08-27T16:50:03-05:00 Some day you'll be heading home. Your time on earth will be over at a time set by your Commander-in-Chief, Jesus Christ. Will He be flying that banner for you when you reach home? Will He say, "Mission accomplished?" In many ways, that is the ultimate measure of whether your life was a success or not. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/When-You-Don-t-Like-What-s-On-Your-Plate-4326 2008-08-27T16:43:12-05:00 I know you have days like that -- when you don't particularly like what's on your plate. Or you don't like how much there is of it. As a parent, you may have to handle some things that really aren't much fun these days. As a son or daughter, or a student, you've been stuck with some jobs that you really don't want to do. At work, it's getting pretty messy, pretty heavy, pretty boring. At church or in your ministry, you're not particularly liking the way it's going in what you're trying to do for the Lord. But it's just part of life -- days, and sometimes lots of days, when we don't like what's on our plate.