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Procrastination seeks to rob you of God’s best in your life, seeking to rob you of your destiny in Christ Jesus Our Lord. Now you can learn how to cast it out of your life and be on your way to Manifesting Your Destiny In Jesus Christ the Lord.

Here are 5 steps to Overcome Procrastination once and for all.

Step1. Seek God For What You Should Be Doing.

Whenever thoughts of fear and procrastination, more than ever you need to seek God for what His will is for you in that particular time. It may be writing the first chapter of the book He has been leading you to write, and it may be asking for forgiveness after a bad break up of some sort.

Step2. Write The Vision and Make it plain.

Oh, yes, we’re going back to Habakkuk. You’ve heard it many times, but you need to hear it again. Write the vision that God has given you that will be the outcome or better yet the greater outcome of you following through with that task that the devil is trying to steal from you. Once you’ve written it down on paper, write it on your heart. Let your will line up with God’s Will.

Step3. Read The Word that the Lord gives you from His holy Word out loud.

Take the scriptures that apply directly to your circumstance and read them out loud. Life and death are in the power of the tongue(Proverbs 18:21). So in essence, by taking a select piece of scripture that identifies God’s promise to you in that situation and speaking it out loud, you eliminate, the death that was been attempted by fear, and procrastination. And you replace that death with Life. Hallelujah! This is what Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ used when He was led up by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. He used the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

Step4. Focus Your Love for your neighbor in your actions.

Would you be a light in a world of darkness? Would you be willing to lay down your pride, and your momentary fears for the benefit of your friends? Let love reign in your heart. Let perfect love cast out all fear.

Step5. Be diligent in love when you’re faced with fear.

By now, I’m sure that you can see how important love is in overcoming procrastination. We’ve identified the truth that perfect love casts out all fear. Love endures all things. There is a no-quit part of love. When fear, and doubt, rejection tries to cripple the mind, you’ll find that heart filled with love presses on in spite of the circumstances. Let the Love that God has shed abroad in your heart , overflow into your life in all that you do and procrastination won’t be able to gain a grip on you. In Jesus’ Name you will overcome it.

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By now, you’ve probably heard about the best-selling book called “The Secret.” This book is also in a DVD and Audio CD format… It’s become absolutely huge!

The concept is, by using this secret, which is “The Law of Attraction,” you can create ANYTHING you want in your life: more money, a bigger house, more business, a new mate, literally anything you want!

While The Secret contains many truths, it also contains some contradictory ideas to the Word of God. For example, I personally disagree with the notion that a person can have just ANYTHING. The reason is… because we were born with different strengths skills, talents, and abilities.

God made us all unique, with a purpose, and with a certain mission. It really isn’t “all about us!” Now does that mean The Secret and the Law of Attraction is all just a bunch of garbage? Absolutely not!

Below, I’ve listed 3 points that will help the believer in Christ understand how The Secret, The Law of Attraction, and God’s will should all work together in our lives.

1. Clarification for the Believer in Christ

The Secret’s teaching on the Law of Attraction has brought a lot of confusion to the believer in Christ for one very good reason… It leaves out the entire concept of “God’s will!

If you’ve been trying to use The Law of Attraction in the way the teachers of The Secret teach, you’ll soon find yourself feeling far from God!

Should we then, not study the Law of Attraction?Absolutely not! The Law of Attraction is very real, and when you read the words of Jesus, you must believe in it!

When you study the Law of Attraction you must be careful whom you’re learning it from (most of the teachers of The Secret do not profess to be followers of Christ)!

Jesus’ teaching on the Law of Attraction dealt with our beliefs, thoughts, words and actions. The teachers of The Secret teach that our words and thoughts are enough, like there’s some sort of magic in what we request from the “Universe,” and a relationship with our Saviour means nothing. Remember John 14:6, “No one comes to the Father but through Me!”

The wisest man who ever lived said this; “Dreaming instead of doing is foolishness, and there is ruin in a flood of empty words; Fear God instead” (Ecclesiastes 5:7)!

2. The Secret and God’s Will

If you’re a Christian, you’re joint-heirs with Christ because you’ve been adopted into His family. This all means you’re in His will, which also means He directs your steps!

Jeremiah 29:11 says, “I know the thoughts I think toward you says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end!”

This Scripture tells us we need to seek God’s will for our lives… seek what He wants! When we’re doing what we’re anointed to do, we’ll experience success!

When we seek our own thing we’ll fail miserably, for Jeremiah 17:5 says, “Cursed is the one that trusts in man!” Whatever does not begin with God will certainly end in failure!

When you’re merely seeking after what you want, and not what God wants, you’re in the flesh, which is sin! And we know sin separates us from God. Again, remember Jeremiah 17:5, “Cursed is the one that trusts in man” (the word “Man” means flesh, or one’s self)!

God wants a relationship with us more than anything else. He wants our heart, and it grieves Him when we chase after selfish things instead of Him. Matthew 6:33 says, “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you!”

3. Why The Secret Works for Everyone

The Law of Attraction is a Godly principle. It’s just that the wordly teaching of it is not Godly.

Because The Law of Attraction is a Godly principle, it will work for everyone, whether they have faith in Christ or not. It’s a universal law containing Godly principles. It’s just that the teachers of the Secret have distorted the biblical references by leaving God out of the equation.

I’m sure you’ve noticed, non-Christian people can achieve great success in their chosen endeavors just as Christians can. Why? Because they’re practicing Godly principles. They just don’t realize it.

Just like the Law of Gravity is always working, so is the Law of Attraction! The Law of Attraction largely determines what we get out of life. It has been working FOR, and AGAINST us since we were born.

The Law of Attraction basically says, “What you think about the most becomes your reality,” or “Thoughts become things!”

So, if you ARE, or ARE NOT getting the things you really and truly desire out of life, I challenge you to consider what you’re thinking about most of the time! What you think about most flows out of your life! Proverbs 4:23 says, “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues of life.”

If you read my newsletter every week, and I’m sure you do, right? You know I write a lot about how important your thinking is!

What is “thinking?” It’s a manner of faith! Jesus said, “According to your faith be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29), and Proverbs 23:7 tells us, “As a man thinks, so is he!”

Conclusion

Jeremiah 17:7 says, “Blessed is the one that trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is!”

It’s a sad thing for a believer to lose his or her peace! It’s only when we trust Him, is when we have perfect peace… and it’s when we begin to trust in ourselves is when we lose it. Once peace is gone, nothing will work.

This is why the teachers of The Secret are so dangerous… by leaving out God’s will, they suggest we ought to trust in ourselves to get the things we want.

A Christian should use the Law of Attraction to glorify God in his or her life, not merely to obtain selfish ambitions.

By seeking His will, knowing what He wants from us, and then trusting Him to help us as we keep focused on that very thing, we’ll put ourselves in a position to receive.

Now, since we’ve clarified that The Secret, or The Law of Attraction is real, understanding it thoroughly is another thing. Truly understanding it with a Christian perspective is even more vital if you’ve been saved, because now you’ve become His, and you must stay within His will!

So think about Jesus’ words, “All things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23)! All things means just that… all things… good and bad!

If you are, or are not, getting the things you really and truly believe God wants for you in your life, I challenge you to consider what you’re thinking about most of the time!

The teachers of “The Secret” say that The Law of Attraction means “Thoughts become things.” But, in reality, the Law of Attraction actually means, “What we think about most flows out of our lives!” We find this truth in Proverbs 4:23, “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues of life.”

Daniel N. Brown is an entrepreneur and teacher of biblical success principles! Get his Free Special Report, “Christian Prosperity Secrets” when you subscribe to his Free “Prosperous Christian” e-Letter…
http://www.SecretPlaceOnline.com

The best evidence for the divine inspiration of the Bible are the many hundreds of predictive prophecies contained in its pages. It is important to go beyond this general statement and focus in on the very best of the best of the Bible’s predictive prophecies in order to understand this supernatural proof in a clear way.

In this article we will take a look at the CROWN JEWEL of Bible prophecy. I have often mentioned that the Bible is unique among sacred writings in that it contains this immense multitude of accurate predictive prophecies.

No other holy book of any other faith contains anything approaching the Bible’s record of prophecy and fulfillment. For instance, the Koran contains only about two dozen verses that could be purported to be predictive and these are very uncertain regarding fulfillment.

There is the Muslim belief in the future coming of a messianic figure called the Mahdi [’Mahdi’ is from an Arabic word meaning the “guided one.”] This prophecy is not rooted in any Koranic verse but derives from early Islamic folklore.

Some Christians who study Bible prophecies pertaining to the antichrist believe that many Muslims will be fooled into accepting the antichrist as being the Mahdi.

If someone approaches you on the street and asks you for the single best evidence for the Christian faith I would recommend that you point him to the predictive prophecy contained in the Bible in Isaiah chapter 53. This prophecy, written approximately 700 years before the birth of Christ, not only gives a description of some details about the life of Christ but repeatedly, in several ways, describes the fact that Jesus was coming to die for our sins.

It is highly significant from a theological perspective that this prophecy so clearly predicts the heart of the Gospel message. (The passage actually begins in Isaiah 52:13-15 and continues through all 12 verses of Isaiah 53.)

In reading the prophecy which consists of just fifteen verses, I have found no less than twelve direct or inferred references to Jesus suffering for our sins or taking our griefs upon Himself. This matter of repetition is of great theological significance.

In the Hebrew language the importance of things is indicated by repetition. For example, In Genesis 14:10 the treacherous tar pits are referred to in the original as “pit pits.” Instead of saying they are “bad pits” they are “pit pits.”

We see repitition all through the Hebrew scriptures most notably in Isaiah 6:3 which says “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts.” This is called by theologians the “thrice hagion” and the triple use of the word “holy” is meant to intensively emphasize that God is holy.

The Isaiah 53 twelve-fold repeat of the central mission of Jesus to die for our sins has no comparison in all of scripture. Even the New Testament itself which describes the substitutionary atonement in many passages has no single passage that compares with this twelve-fold repetition contained in Isaiah chapters 52-53!

It can be said that the Old Testament, in this predictive prophecy, has a more clear description of the central truth of the Gospel than any comparable passage of the New Testament. This also confirms that the crucifixion of Christ is the central event of all history and that Jesus is indeed the promised Messiah of Israel.

Just one verse of Isaiah 53, verse 5, contains a fourfold repetition of Jesus’ atoning sacrifice. The verse reads “But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.” [NASB]

Animals were sacrificed in the Jewish temple at Jerusalem. Jesus fulfilled the prophetic significance of the Jewish sacrificial system when He offered Himself as “an offering for sin” (Isa. 53:10).

When Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice there was no more need for sacrifice of animals. The sacrifice of animals under Judaism ended,

Isaiah 52-53 also contains other predictive elements of interest. Isaiah 53:9 reads “His grave was assigned to be with wicked men, Yet with a rich man in His death.” [NASB] This is a clear prediction of Jesus being buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy man (Matthew 27:57-60).

Isaiah 53:10 contains a prediction of the resurrection of Christ. Isaiah 53:10 contains the phrase “He will prolong His days.” [NASB] The resurrection of Christ certainly has resulted in the prolonging of His days.

He was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and will return to rule and reign on this earth from the throne of David in Jerusalem (Luke 1:32).

As Peter, the apostle, admonished us “be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.”

There are many predictive prophecies that foretold the coming of Christ and gave details such as His virgin birth (Isaiah 7:14), The fact that He would suffer death by crucifixion (Psalm 22:1-16), and there’s even a prophecy that foretold the time of His coming (Daniel 9:24-26) but the clearest of all is that incomparable, inescapable Isaiah 53!

Bill Nugent has written many articles on Christianity, philosophy and science. He has also written books that give Bible based teaching on sanctification and that caution against the error of legalism. His books are available at his website http://www.gracelawandsonship.com.

Help me to communicate with God? Please help me communicate with God much more easily. Help me be able to hear God’s voice? These are quesitons that I’ve asked others in the past as I was trying to get to know God more and more. But when God revealed to me The Truth in His Word, I reached out in faith and today I’ hear and communicate with God for just about everything. What’s this truth? The Truth is: all those who belong to the Lord, those who have the Spirit of Christ dwelling within them, know the Lord and Hear His voice.”My sheep hear my voice (says Our Lord Jesus Christ). I know them, and they follow me(John 10:27).”

Being able to hear God’s voice clearly, is very important in the life of the every Christian. And to really hear him clearly they are only three things that you need to do:

1) Ask Him to open your ears to hear His Voice.

Even right now. This moment. Just say, “Lord, open my ears in Jesus’ name. Amen.” Thank Him for answering your prayer. And then listen. Why listen? That’s step 2.

2) Believe that when you ask you shall receive. So go ahead and receive already.

That’s right. Our Lord Jesus Christ has promised that if week ask anything in His name that we shall receive the good gifts we’ve asked for(Matthew 7:7-11) . Praise God! So as I said, go ahead and receive already! Then as you hear Him, thank Him for making you more aware of His voice, and His leading in your life. Now proceed to step 3.

3) Believe that you’ve heard God in Faith working through Love.

Woah! That a hefty chunk, isn’t it. Yeah, I thought so myself. But here’s what it all boils down to. You’ve got to believe in Faith and in this faith is in Christ Jesus, Our Lord.

You should have this Faith, knowing that God reconciled you to Himself through Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

And this is the Gift of God. And because of this reconciliation you now have access to every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus, and one of those blessings is being able to Hear His Voice.

Two things that you must keep in mind however are:

1) God will never alter anything that has gone out of His mouth. He’ll never say anything to you that goes against His holy Word written down in the Bible.

2) God’s thoughts towards you are for you welfare and not for your harm; to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)

3) Jesus Christ is our Lord, Our Saviour and our Hope.

And now I invite you to join me at the Quinson Thomas Ministries website, http://www.quinsonthomas.com, where I want to get into your hands a host of free audio podcasts ebooks and videos that will help you fulfill Your God-given destiny in Christ.

How does one become a truly successful Christian? Even though people are diverse, the successful ones share some things in common. Here are six common traits that all successful Christian people have in common…

1. Successful people know themselves. They understand their talents and strengths, and they know how to use them to their advantage.

2. Successful people are open to feedback. They learn from the opinions of others. Even the opinions of less successful people.

3. Successful people are eager to learn and improve. They have a thirst for knowledge and ask questions. As they are lifelong students who continuously reinvent themselves, they adapt to the ideas they consistently learn. They know by acquiring new information they keeps themselves improving.

4. Successful people are curious and not afraid to take risks. They push the envelope, looking for adventure. They explore new options, not fearing mistakes. They know that success depends upon pushing forward toward improvement. They embrace errors because they believe mistakes offer a valuable learning experience.

5. Successful people learn from criticism. They are students, and adversity builds their character. Every successful people can point to a significant critic that affected his or her development.

6. Successful people serve as a role model or mentor for other people. They coach others, helping them focus on improvement, teaching, mentoring and empowering them.

Do you see yourself in any of these six points? If not, there is a quick fix… The answer lies in a simple change of attitude. An attitude that says, “I am confident - in Christ!”

If you noticed, the six characteristics listed above have not even a hint of arrogance in them. Now, there is huge line dividing confidence and arrogance. How to distinguish between the two can be clarified in the following points…

~ A person of confidence always tries to encourage and help others in building their confidence, where as a person of arrogance tries to discourage others.

~ A person of confidence attracts others who are confident, are elevated in their presence, and gets inspiration in their company, whereas an arrogant person creates repulsion in the minds of others because of his or her boastful nature.

~ A person of confidence appreciates the success of other people and shares in his or her’s happiness, whereas a person of arrogance discourages and tries to humiliate others and feels jealous of their success.

~ There is joy in being around people of confidence because they are cheerful and can mix freely with everyone else. In the presence of arrogant people, even confident people may begin to feel a little down.

Conclusion

Truly successful Christian people share common traits… traits such as a high degree of confidence, an openness to criticism, a willingness to teach, a great desire to expand their skills, and the ability to remain humble.

Daniel N. Brown is an entrepreneur and teacher of biblical success principles! Get his Free Special Report, “Christian Prosperity Secrets” when you subscribe to his Free “Prosperous Christian” e-Letter…
http://www.SecretPlaceOnline.com

A general consensus has emerged among serious, science oriented UFO researchers that a certain small percentage of UFOs are real and are not figments of anyone’s imagination. Furthermore, it is well known that many individuals claim to receive messages from alleged extra-terrestials aboard UFOs.

The messages received from UFOs are generally occultic and steer people away from belief in Christian doctrine. Extra-terrestials tend to undermine or attack the Christian faith.

Christian scholars and researchers have responded to this attack. In this article I will show that leading UFO researchers, many of whom are agnostic, have come around to generally support the Christian position on UFO phenomena.

After all the UFO sightings have been carefully analyzed and most explained away as natural phenomena the remaining UFOs, called residual UFOs (RUFOs) are regarded as real. They are real yet the leading researchers say they are not metallic spacecraft from distant stars or planets.

Astronomers who have devoted their careers to studying UFOs point to the fact that UFO flight patterns defy the laws of physics such as turning and accelerating so fast that any metal spaceship would disintegrate even if the metal spaceship was a solid iron ball. Furthermore, UFOs are seen in the atmosphere and not observed coming in from outer space.

UFO sightings have been reported throughout history. Ancient literature describes ‘aerial people’ and ‘cloud ships’ in terms that correspond to modern UFO sightings. In 1691 a Scottish minister wrote a book describing how Scottish farmers were harassed by paranormal entities similar to the UFOs of our time.

All of us are aware of the many UFO cults that have sprung up. There have even been television specials devoted to UFO phenomena.

Francis Crick, Nobel prize winning co-discoverer of DNA, calculated the probability of proteins forming by random collisions of atoms in the primordial ooze. Crick found it so remotely improbable that proteins and other building blocks of life could form by chance on earth that he decided that aliens from outer space must have brought life to earth.

Crick’s theory that claims that aliens brought life to earth is called the “Guided Panspermia Theory” of life origins. This new theory of life origins gave momentum to UFO research.

Close encounters of the fourth kind are when people (almost invariably occultists and New Agers) are actually abducted and communicate with the aliens. The aliens generally give messages with deep religious impact that steer people away from Christianity.

Let’s consider the following quote: “For example, ‘The Urantia Book,’ a tome supposedly communicated to humans by spirit dictation from ’superuniverse rulers,’ spends the first two-thirds of its 2,097 pages describing a ‘universe of universes’ that is not subject to space and time”

The quote continues: “The last third of this UFO bible denies the full deity of Jesus Christ and humanity’s need for salvation from its sinful condition.” (Quoted from Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestials by Ross, Samples and Clark p. 122.)

It seems plain from the above quote and from abundant other evidence that the aliens oppose Christian doctrine. This leads me to believe that the aliens are actually demons.

It is also very interesting and revealing to note that many of the best UFO researchers seem to be coming around to a view that undergirds and supports the Christian view that demons are involved.

Astronomer J. Alan Hynek and the late French physicist Jacques Vallee are perhaps the most respected UFO researchers in the world. Both are agnostics. No one can consider them Christians with a theological ax to grind.

Both men have made what I consider to be very bold statements that clearly undergird the Christian position that spiritual entities are behind UFO phenomena. For example, Hynek said that UFOs cause physical effects “in the same way that a poltergeist can produce very real physical effects.”

Vallee said “The UFO phenomenon represents evidence for other dimensions beyond spacetime . . . It is a spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans.”

There are many other quotes I could cite. Vallee was the leading proponent of the Interdimensional Hypothesis which is the view that UFOs come from another dimension (Christians like me would say the other dimension is the dimension of spirit) and not from interstellar travel.

Many prominent born-again Christian scholars such as David Allen Lewis have done research on UFO phenomena. It seems clear to them that demons are using UFOs to deceive millions and prepare them to embrace an occultic, ‘New Age’ type of faith.

Some say that UFOs and the teachings that proceed from them are preparing the world to receive the coming antichrist.

I will close this article by mentioning the fact that there have been documented cases of close encounters of the fourth kind, which are abductions of people by UFOs, that have actually been stopped when the people involved called out the name of Jesus. In other words the people appealed to the atoning work of Christ who died for our sins.

When they cried out to Jesus the demons attempting the abduction ceased their activity. The demons fear the power of Christ and must submit to the power of Christ because Christ is the Son of God. See the April 2001 issue of Charisma magazine for documentation of UFO abductions that were stopped in this way.

A major source for this article was Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men: A Rational Christian Look at UFOs and Extraterrestials by Ross, Samples and Clark.

Bill Nugent has written many articles on Christianity, philosophy and science. He has also written books that give Bible based teaching on sanctification and that caution against the error of legalism. His books are available at his website http://www.gracelawandsonship.com.

Have you gone through book after book, sermon after sermon, or article after article looking for answers that will bring you success for your life, but found yourself only coming up with more questions?

Does it seem like the more you study, the more frustrated you become?

There’s an interested Scripture I would like to direct you to found in Ecclesiastes 1:16-18. This is written by Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived…

“I said to myself, “Look, I am better educated than any of the kings before me in Jerusalem. I have greater wisdom and knowledge. So I worked hard to be wise instead of foolish. But now I realize that this was like chasing the wind. For the more wisdom, the more my grief; to increase knowledge only increases distress” (Amplified Bible Translation).

The reason I believe why Solomon said the more knowledge and understanding he got increased his grief was because it lead him into a fleshly spirit where he may have tried to do things in his own power.

I know from personal experience; the times in my life when I left God out, the real power was gone and I was left with nothing more than frustration!

Jesus said, “As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine you are the branches. He that abides in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing” (John 15:4-5).

Yes, I believe much study can lead to distress. It can get us off track with our relationship with God, particularly if what we are studying is not coming from a Christian author.

Good judgment is definitely required when learning new ideas that are not usually taught in local churches or delivered by non-Christian authors!

Getting educated, learning new ideas, and studying is certainly something I personally believe in, but I know we must consider God’s will in our lives above all else. Again, without Him, we can do nothing.

We should get knowledge and then ask God what we are to do with it, how we are to apply it to our lives, and how we are to help others with it. Getting knowledge is not something we should try to get for selfish reasons! James 4:3 says, “”You ask and fail to receive because you ask with wrong purpose and selfish motives” (Amplified Bible Version).

Daniel N. Brown is an entrepreneur and teacher of biblical success principles! Get his Free Special Report, “Christian Prosperity Secrets” when you subscribe to his Free “Prosperous Christian” e-Letter…
http://www.SecretPlaceOnline.com