2013-10-28T10:00:10-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/your+personal+power/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/drought-proof-security-6991 2013-10-28T10:00:10-05:00 Maybe you're facing unemployment, maybe the value of your house has been a problem, it could be inflation, deflation, all kinds of unexpected expenses, or maybe the medical care is so expensive you hadn't planned on it. If you're depending on the finances of earth to keep you secure, you're going to be scared a lot of the time. But if your roots go deep into God's endless resources, you're pretty secure. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-no-regrets-alarm-6964 2013-09-19T16:13:17-05:00 sin alarm that God uses when you're reaching for something that could hurt you is Spirit tremors. It's an uneasiness in your spirit that says, "This just isn't right." That's probably the stirring of the Holy Spirit. Listen to that inner warning. But respond immediately and put on the Scripture brakes, respond to the shame warnings, to the Spirit tremors before sin drowns them out and you grab a plateful of regrets. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/putting-the-planets-where-they-belong-6963 2013-09-18T09:16:37-05:00 We come out of the darkness when we realize and we never compromise the final centrality of the Bible in our personal universe, and when we put the planets of all those other ideas where they belong - in orbit around the sun of the Word of God. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/love-has-x-ray-vision-6961 2013-09-17T12:39:03-05:00 You can have discernment in your daily choices the same way the first-century believers did. You've got to pray for it. Ask for it often. Like Superman, you can have x-ray vision, but to see the things that are really valuable. God can give you powerful inner eyes when you open up to His discerning love. Love isn't blind; it has x-ray vision. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/voice-majors-6959 2013-09-17T12:36:57-05:00 Like that little goat, you just have to accumulate experience in hearing your Shepherd's voice in your heart, each day, all through the day. And then when He calls, you'll leap His direction, because all of us Shepherd-needing folks are trained by one vital skill. We all need to be voice majors; majoring in recognizing the voice of our Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-sign-on-your-life-6880 2013-05-24T09:40:44-05:00 There's a sign on your life. It doesn't say like it did on the house that I bought: "Sold." The sign on your life and mine says: Bought. You are a purchased person. You belong to the person who paid for you. Are you living that way? Are you living for the One who gave His life so you could have hope, so you could have a life, so your life could have meaning, so you could have an eternity in heaven, who paid with His life for yours? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/clone-or-original-6825 2013-03-08T09:17:30-05:00 Be yourself! Relax! Be the person that God made for a unique role that you are destined to fulfill. You compare with somebody else? You'll never get off the ground. You try to copy someone else, and you will never be the person you were created to be. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/addicts-need-a-meeting-6804 2013-02-07T09:38:35-05:00 Now, our support group is a support person. We cannot stay away from sin unless we have our meeting - yeah, our meeting with God - regularly. The day you skip your meeting is the day you start to slip. We're not talking about some legalistic ritual where you have check the box Christianity: Read my Bible and prayed. No, not doing your duty. It's a love thing. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/your-share-of-the-load-6798 2013-01-30T09:46:44-05:00 God has a part of His load for you to carry. No child of God is exempt. "To whom much is given, much is required." So begin on your knees, "Lord, break my heart for something that breaks Yours." Take some ownership for one of those needs. And what will God do with your willing heart? I don't know, but He'll make your life bigger as you get beyond caring about what just concerns you. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/very-deep-but-very-dead-6794 2013-01-24T09:41:53-05:00 Start a spiritual diary, and in it write two things: what did I read today; what is God saying here and put it in your own words...not Bible words. And then, what am I going to do differently today because of what He said?" The Bible isn't just to be mastered. It's to be obeyed.