take heart and die to yourself
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."- John 16:33
"He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels."
- Revelation 3:5
"Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus."
- Romans 6:8-10
Something I heard at retreat:
What do you do with those who have already died to themselves? If you threaten to kill, they are willing to die for what they believe... if you leave them to live, they continue to preach the gospel.
If you have already surrendered your idols and know the Lord gives and takes away, what is there to fear?
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"What do you do with those who have already died to themselves? If you threaten to kill, they are willing to die for what they believe... if you leave them to live, they continue to preach the gospel."
ReplyDeletepraying we can get to that state