Sari @sarikorpi@dingdash.com

@Chimneysweepwife
"What happened to Keith Waters is the latest in a long line of cases where honest, kind, normal people are subjected to harassment and intimidation for expressing moderate, mainstream Christian views on sexual ethics. We live in a world where even questioning the LGBTQ agenda can land you in serious trouble."
That's just so true!! Thank God for people who won't be silent but speak out the truth! 🙏

If she would be found guilty of charges, that would practically mean that the Bible would be banned in Finland, at least in some parts. You wouldn't be able to stand for God words about how sexuality was created only for a man and a woman in marriage. That would be hate speech and forbidden.
🙏

Päivi Räsänen, a Finnish MP, is accused of hate speech and on next Monday, the 24th, she's called to be in court. She made a tweet about how homosexuality is a sin according to the Bible as she criticized the lutheran church for taking part in a pride-festival. You can read more about it here:

https://adfinternational.org/court-date-set-for-finnish-mp-charged-over-bible-tweet/

@tanjaostman they did report, and not that bad this time.

https://yle.fi/news/3-12282427

@DevotionalTreasures Thank you my brother! 😊

That verse became alive for me through being a mother (of five). In the beginning, with the first child, it was hard for me to put my own needs aside as the baby needed to be cared of and breastfed day and night. I just waited the whole day for my husband to come home from work! But as time went and we got more children, I slowly learned to start "dying for myself" and put my own desires aside. I then started to understand what that verse meant about giving your body as a sacrifice to God. I see this same also in marriage, you give yourself to the other. (1 Cor. 7:4).

God bless you!

@DevotionalTreasures Good post! Yes, the altars' to God is now to be built in our hearts! And what are the sacrifices on our altars? Our worship, our life - our living bodies! This is one of my absolute favorite verses in the Bible:

"I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship." (Rom. 12:1)

So this is not just a theological thing to build an altar to God in our hearts and "give our life to Jesus", it means that we practically give our b o d i e s for Him as a living sacrifices, which means everything that I use my body for in my everyday life. ❤

"Make Him central to your every hour, the source of your every breath, and the Light that everyone sees in you each day."

Amen!

@tanjaostman 😂

@erdenpilger I fully agree that the healing of our spirit, which was bound to sin and therefore dead spiritually, is the absolute most important healing to a person! However, God is so full of compassion for us humans that he wants to reach his hand out also in our physical needs and sicknesses, that's what Jesus did when he walked on earth; he healed both spiritually and physicallly. And he's the same today. Why doesn't then everyone get healed, although we pray and cry out to God? I don't know. God's ways are higher than ours. So in that way I too think we can't take it as a prophesy (guarantee) for all sicknesses in the world. 
It's a pity that many charismatic churches has made healing (and christianity) a business (where you seek worldly success). They don't seek HIM, only his blessings. Daniel is a good role model: to stand firm and obey God's word, know He is able to save from evil people (or heal) - also if he won't. He's God, and He's 100% good and righteous. ❤ God bless you!

"Jesus has changed my life, His name be lifted high, this holy fire's burning inside of me!"

https://youtu.be/sw-t4NCuhVY

@DevotionalTreasures God is truly worthy of our praise! And when He has lit His fire in us it can't stay hidden! Be blessed brother! 😊

@Chidiotamiri Thank you!
And you put it very well in your previous post: "But though the ability to sin is still in us, the grace of God has appeared to us and it enables us to say "NO" to sin."
Be blessed!

When we seek God as a means to get something for us, we will not find Him."

- K. P Yohannan

"But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

- Matt. 6:33

@Chidiotamiri Amen to this! 🙏

@Crissy_1565 To see a person be transformed by the love and power of God, surrender himself totally to Christ and start preaching the gospel so that more people can be set free - That's what Jesus came for! He came so that the lost world would have a chance. Without Him we are lost.

Keith Green is a great example of a person who lived 100% for Christ. His life was totally transformed and consumed by the love God, put on fire for Jesus and for the lost in the world - saving nothing of himself. Impacted millions of peoples lives and are still impacting:

https://youtu.be/4nLRCIzNI5c

@Chidiotamiri Amen!
And ones' Jesus has made us righteous and purified us from our past sins, He gives us His grace to live a holy life according to his will. But now it's all glory to Him, because I know in me, that's in my flesh, dwell nothing good (Rom.7:18). He helps me to die to my self and to walk in the Spirit. (Rom. 6:13).We are not slaves to sin anymore, although it will be stuck to us as long as we live in this body. (Rom. 7:25). But we have a new Master now! 🙌 (Rom. 6:6-7,14)