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- Herausgeber: Harold Mawela
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
This book is designed to teach you to approach circumstances, relationships, and situations of life from a biblical perspective and to experience victory and contentment in all of life's trials, testings and problems.The essence of who we are is made of events and how we responded to those events. We are the sum of what we encountered in life and our reactions to those experiences. Memory, the recalling of the past, is our spirit gazing at the substance of our soul which, at times, directs our life rather than the word of God. Thus, most of our problems are due to ignorance on how to biblically respond to life, and to use life's adversities to our advantage as opportunities to grow and mature in Christ.These spiritual resources are available to those who are born by the will of God. Having accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, the believer is enabled by Holy Spirit to face life, to counter adversities, to grow in grace and strength, and to live in peace and joy.The issue is the self, the soul of man. The self-created by God, belongs to God. The self, tempted to be god without God, became enslaved by SatanThe living soul is what we will deal with...to set it freeto again be completely dependent upon God to follow Him and to glorify Him.Phil. 2:12-13; 2 Pet. 1:3-11 tell us to work out our salvation daily being conformed to the image of Christ. The key is daily, being God-conscious twenty-four hours a day. Either we are thinking God's thoughts or we defer to lower level thinking. There is no gray area. You are either for God or you are against Him.
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Harold Mawela
The Happy Lemon
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
The Law of Problems
The Law of Problem Solving
The Law of Hope
The Law of Healing
(LEAD YOURSELF TO PROBLEM SOLVING)
Copyright © 2018 by (HAROLD MAWELA)
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.
Printed in SOUTH AFRICA
Published by Harold Mawela
All Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The author has added italics to Scripture quotations for emphasis.
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Acknowledgments
A book is never the result of just one person. I’d like to thank God..’’ Thanks to My father / Mentor / Spiritual father Apostle SM Mawela for reminding me of my purpose my mother MM Mawela she is a pillar indeed and to the entire Mawela family you are a great nation. AFM Word of faith,AFM Akasia family and AFM GNN Region thank you for helping me to discover my gifts it is an honor to serve you. And last but perhaps most important, thanks to my family, my wife Zanele my Kids Maatla, Seetsa and Botlalo who did without me while I spent countless hours at the computer, in the library, and in my ‘‘study’’ digesting and merging biblical verse and management wisdom. You provide my inspiration and purpose.
3: God’s Covenant with Abraham . . .
INTRODUCTION
This book is designed to teach you to approach circumstances, relationships, and situations of life from a biblical perspective and to experience victory and contentment in all of life's trials, testings and problems.
The essence of who we are is made of events and how we responded to those events. We are the sum of what we encountered in life and our reactions to those experiences. Memory, the recalling of the past, is our spirit gazing at the substance of our soul which, at times, directs our life rather than the word of God. Thus, most of our problems are due to ignorance on how to biblically respond to life, and to use life's adversities to our advantage as opportunities to grow and mature in Christ.
These spiritual resources are available to those who are born by the will of God. Having accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, the believer is enabled by Holy Spirit to face life, to counter adversities, to grow in grace and strength, and to live in peace and joy.
The issue is the self, the soul of man. The self-created by God, belongs to God. The self, tempted to be god without God, became enslaved by Satan.
The living soul is what we will deal with...
to set it free to again be completely dependent upon God to follow Him and to glorify Him.Phil. 2:12-13; 2 Pet. 1:3-11 tell us to work out our salvation daily being conformed to the image of Christ. The key is daily, being God-conscious twenty-four hours a day. Either we are thinking God's thoughts or we defer to lower level thinking. There is no gray area. You are either for God or you are against Him.
The Law of Problems
We are the sum of what we encountered in life and our reactions to these events. Being conditioned by life's experiences, we are prone to react to life impulsively and instinctively rather than to respond on the basis of considered judgment. Such actions reveal a man's inner life - his focus - and who and what determines his peace and joy.
Our usual focus is on what others have done or failed to do. As we maintain a self-defensive and self-protective posture, we are inclined to judge, to condemn, to criticize, to blame shift, and similar reactions. This self focus is a breeding ground for anger, frustration, despair, bitterness, self-pity, and the like - a life of feelings. A feeling-oriented life is a fertile area in which Satan operates and upon which he feeds .
The ungodly live by their senses. Their lives are directed by how and what they feel. This is what distinguishes a committed Christian from the world: a Christian lives by the will of God, not by feelings. However, nothing wrong with feelings in themselves until we act upon them. We are not to be directed or to live by feelings. We are to take stock and make note of our intents - the spirit that is being manifested. Then ask God for the grace to insure that we respond in a manner that honors and glorifies Him.
Regardless of how we feel, we are to do what the word of God says to do. As we do to please the Father, godly feelings follow the joy of the Lord. Living by the word, one serves God the Creator. Anything done without faith, without reference to God's word is sin .Our response and reactions to life reflect our roots, the source of our being. Man's thoughts, speech and actions convey the character of these roots. Here we can identify the sin patterns and strongholds developed over the years that characterize the lifestyle and personality of the individual.
Category of root problems are many: hypocrisy, manipulation, lying, cheating, stealing, boasting, blame shifting, self-centeredness, self-protection, self-interest, anger, impatience, self-pity, lust, immorality, greed, malice, deceit, etc - a life characterized by self being on the throne of one's life.
We establish godly roots by changing I to We , you in union with Christ. This begins with the new birth, followed by daily renewal of the mind. Thus life is confronted on the basis of God's word the will of God. As we do the word, the Holy Spirit changes our roots which affects our feelings. This is a purification process. And we, in turn, begin to respond to life in a manner that glorifies God .
Method to Solutions
We are to look at life from God's perspective, His view, not from our way, experiences, ideas, opinions, what
others say, the world's philosophy or its psychology. The basic problem and the supreme challenge you will face in making Christ-honoring changes is dying to self. The biblical perspective concerning 'self' is exactly opposite to what the wisdom of this world proclaims ( Luke
9:23-24).
Accordingly, to live biblically is to respond to life's challenges in a manner that pleases and honors God, no longer pleasing and gratifying self.
Hope is an anchor of the soul because it affects our mind and emotions. Christ within me, the Anointed One, breaks the yoke of life's pressures on me. My job is to develop this inner image of Christ within me, that in Him, I am more than a conqueror, never under but always over circumstances, no matter what I face in life.
To really believe this in the inner core of my being that all God's promises are mine depends upon my living in and by the living word of God.
God gave me a heart of flesh, put His Spirit within me, and gives me power to carry out His commands. Being a child of God, I receive revelation knowledge by the word of God in and through my human spirit. No matter what happens to me in life when I call upon God He will intervene in my life, He will reach into my experiences, redeem my past, and cause things to work out for my benefit. God is the One Who is faithful. As I put my faith in Him, He will bring me out successfully. All I have to do is ask boldly, and God's Grace is available to me, and the blood of Jesus Christ intercedes always, washing and cleansing from all sense of guilt and shame whether real or imaginary. My old human nature and all my past has been buried with Christ when I was baptized into His death. At the burial I was also raised with Him into the newness of life, freed from the power of sin, and free now to do acts of righteousness.
