Suffering

Be familiar with the following content from The Preface, Introduction, Appendix, & Chapters 1-5 of “Living Out the Mind of Christ: Practical Keys to Discovering and Applying the Mind of Christ in Every Day Life” by Dr. Gutierrez

Prayer/Devotional Life: Have daily heartfelt prayer time with the Lord, John 15:4-5 “Remain in me, and I will remain in you…” Have a sense of urgency and passion for the Lord. Not only have a heartfelt prayer but also pray fervently!

“Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all my

A relationship with God with close interaction is what life is all about. Hearing God's voice and knowing His presence daily can take your Christian experience to the highest level. The Bible reveals to us the way for us to hear God's voice and to know Him better. Through prayer and intimate knowledge of God all Christians can know God better when they know how to listen to God with their spirits. The art of hearing God does not have to escape the believer. God is always near open your spiritual eyes. Find out more about hearing God's voice for

Are you willing to risk everything in order to make a difference with the time you have? Robert F. Kennedy is credited with saying, “Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.” In essence, those who accomplish something great do so by taking great risks. Do you want to make a difference? Do you desire to see God move? We must be ready to take whatever risk God requests of us. Remember that we don’t have to do it on our own; it isn’t up to how much we accomplish, but how willing we are to be used by God. I have to warn you, pursuing Christ isn’t always safe. Just look at the life of Paul. He was beaten, shipwrecked, and eventually beheaded. Esther was faced with the possibility of death by choosing to ask the king to save her people. Still, in each case, God was glorified and he used the people who listened and were obedient to whatever He asked of them. They took the risk and were

"It should be clear that it is your responsibility to study, learn, and connect with God for yourself and then share your wonderful experience with the Good work that you are doing, not with fake lip service and Ulterior Motives." ~ Jon Barnes

He convicts the world of sin and righteousness and judgment. He brings conviction in our heart that we need Jesus and He takes us and leads us to Jesus.

While living at my grandma’s she took me to church. And Sunday school every Sunday. That brought me closer to God. Like Grandma says all of the time, “Jesus is who we should try to live like. “Before long, I learned it does not matter what people say about me because people talked about Jesus. It does not matter what they call me but what I answer to. The only thing there is to do is to try to live as Jesus did. “The world is not perfect,” Grandma says, “but it is our job and our duty as Christians to up lift His Holy name, tell the world who he is, and help those who are in need.” Going to church also taught me that I should love everyone no matter what they do, where they come from, how they look, or they act. You should always treat people the way I would like to be treated. However, it also helps me to know that not all people are heartless; there are people in the world that love to help others overcome their fears and day to day life problems. The church is one big, happy family; it brought me closer to my old friends and showed me that God will never put more on me then I can handle, passing his test makes me wordy of his

The New Testament highlights resurrection and living a life of faith and purity. Those who commit themselves to God and are in union with the Lord work towards God’s grace and a divine fate. However, for those who live a life of sin and mock God, he turns his back to leave them to lead their lives in sin and ultimately

The book Steps to Christ discusses our relationship with God. The author Ellen White describes thirteen steps we must take to enable us to have a loving and committed relationship with our Heavenly Father. In this essay I discuss each of the thirteen steps.

But God restored us to himself through his love and mercy and saved us with his grace (v. 4-7).

be among His people in a special way. Jesus called this special way the Kingdom of God. He warned His listeners to repent their sinful ways to be ready for the approaching Kingdom of God. In urging

“Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I knew You always hear Me, but I said this for the benefit of the people

When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, sin entered the world and that which was once good became corrupted. From that moment, we were separated from God. Yet because we were made in His image and He love us so much, He gave up his one and only son to die on the cross for our sins. One of God’s attributes is His benevolence, which means that He loves and cares about all His creation. He is also merciful, which means that He is very compassionate and tender-hearted towards us. I mention these specific attributes to emphasize the fact that these attributes were also present in the person of Christ. Jesus said, “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9), meaning that if we want to personally “know the love, the holiness, the power

Having been a Christian for many years I thought that I had a fair knowledge of what it meant to pray. I was amazed and humbled by the idea that through Jesus’ restorative act on the cross I am able to come into God’s presence - and not only come but be welcomed and even longed for. I believed that prayer is a powerful tool to petition God , a vehicle to praise Him , and an instrument to increase our intimacy with Him . I understood that people pray in a variety of ways, based on the teaching they have received, their experience, and even their personality. Most commonly, I engaged in prayer as a conversation with God.