2008-10-29T18:24:30-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/joy http://intothyword.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=48109&columnid=3803 2008-10-29T18:24:30-05:00 Jesus; the Perfecter of our Faith! We are not alone in this journey of faith; we have a great multitude of witnesses in those who have gone before us, upon whose shoulders we stand. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Freedom-No-One-Can-Take-5668 2008-10-15T16:30:56-05:00 You may be in a hurting time right now and you didn't get to choose your situation. But, like the man in the concentration camp and the apostle in the prison cell, you can choose your attitude. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Your-Emergency-Lights-5662 2008-10-09T15:33:28-05:00 If your joy is attached to your circumstances, when the storm knocks them out, you'll be in the dark. But if your joy is internally generated from an unshakable relationship with your awesome, Sovereign Lord, then you have light that will be there when every other light fails. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Power-of-the-Name-3986 2008-09-11T16:22:49-05:00 There can be decisive power in a name; even power that delivers you from what you deserve. And there is no name with more decisive power in all the universe than the name of Jesus. His name accomplishes things nothing else can accomplish. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Healing-Power-of-Exercise-5639 2008-08-29T09:45:08-05:00 You can speed up your healing by doing what you do not feel like doing; getting involved with people when you feel like withdrawing from them, getting active when you feel like being inactive, charging into some ministry or helping role when you feel like retreating, looking for someone whose need you can meet instead of someone who can meet yours. The hurt you have been through will give you the sensitivity and the credentials to minister to other hurting people. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/How-to-go-from-the-Basement-to-the-Penthouse-4455 2008-08-29T01:31:29-05:00 Now, one of the secrets of peace in the midst of great stress, of poise when everything is up for grabs, of perspective when you could be freaking out - the secret is to start celebrating the kind of God you have. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Hour-Before-the-Sunrise-4463 2008-08-29T01:23:07-05:00 God uses the long dark night to accomplish some important spiritual changes. He wants us to have those times when no human answers, no human consolation, no human heroes, no human efforts can change things. He's bringing you to the end of what you can do, the end of anything you can even think of doing. Because that's the beginning of the things only God can do. But first, He has to get us out of the way. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Breaking-Through-Thick-Ice-4445 2008-08-28T16:47:33-05:00 It's not easy to melt the ice that has frozen over a sidewalk. It's even tougher to melt the ice that has frozen over someone's heart. That hard, frozen heart may be yours right now - or it may be the frigid condition of the heart of someone you know. Any hard or frozen heart is something that can cause a lot of injury - and can be holding inside a pile of hurt. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Looking-Forward-to-the-Report-4533 2008-08-28T16:19:59-05:00 I guess some people are going to be confident when they see Jesus. They're looking forward to it. Why? Well, you have been living all along for the things that matter forever, so you'll be stepping into everything that you invested when you see Jesus. You've been making your relationship with Jesus the number one priority of your life, of your energy, so seeing Him will be just the glorious continuation and fulfillment of what you've been doing here. Those who are really living for Jesus are the ones who are really looking for Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/What-the-Shepherds-gave-the-Baby-4420 2008-08-28T14:23:47-05:00 What the shepherds gave Jesus must have meant far more to Him than any treasure the wise men brought. It's a gift that is within your power to give - but one that all too few of His followers ever offer Him.