jennifer_bloom

Jesus said it is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God but many men like Jacob and Abraham and Solomon and David were rich in money and men like Moses and Elijah and Jesus and Cyrus were rich in status. What I believe Jesus...

To me when Jesus drives people out of the marketplace, he is saying you cannot serve both social status climbing and spiritual status climbing, that what God honours differs from what humans honour and what humans honour differ from what God honours. This does not mean that faith and success...

In the bible, Solomon says that all hard work brings a profit but mere talk leads only to poverty. I also had a dream where God told me if I worry about the things that I can control that than God will worry about the things in my life that I can’t control. The way I combine those two things...

Jesus talks about how the kingdom of heaven is like a man who catches many fish with his team of fisherman and than put the good fish into containers and through the bad fish away. To me the fish symbol the religiously faithful. Some Christians use their religion as an excuse to be a good...

One of the reasons God sometimes resists is and makes us fight for what we want is that He is trying to mould our character While I’ve attempted to make money writing books and failed to achieve anything amazing or majestic, I realized the process of writing has changed me Gos resists us to...

The bible says that though all evil doers prosper, they will be destroyed forever And another part says though the wicked who are the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be destroyed forever. Now a wicked man is a false witness and an enemy is somebody who is not faithful...

Matthew 6:33 says seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all else will be added unto you The way I understand that verse is that if you pursue spiritual wealth which is the presence and virtue of God and pursue second the spiritual enrichment of all who cross your path,...

Jesus said a man who can be trusted with very little can be trusted with very much and a man untrustworthy with very little is untrustworthy with very much. The little is your life and social influences, the much is your eternal and everlasting goal, if you want to be merciful about big things...

Jesus says that he who humbles himself will be exalted and he who exalts himself will be humbled. The Old Testament says let the man who has God’s word speak it faithfully, meaning your verbal outflow is the byproduct of a spiritually tenacious and persistent life, not some high minded...

In the parable of the talents and the parable of the minas, the ones who grew tremendously were awarded and the one who refused to grow was punished, and the way I interpret that verse is, if you are not able to do great things with your life, than you should do the things you are capable of...

I believe the bible teaches not to confuse comfort with satisfaction or contentment with benefit A person has to be focused on progress to be successful Focusing on comfort and rest is futile because until you die - perfect bliss will never be possible but productivity and growth and self...

An Alternate Understanding of the Beatitudes 1) Blessed are those who are willing to acknowledge their ignorance and mistake for they will appreciate God’s love 2) Blessed are those who are willing to sacrifice for what they want for they will be comforted 3) Blessed are those who look within...

The bible says that when a man acquires worldly wealth but is not grateful and loving towards God, He will lose his sense and the bible says those who are rich have exploited the comforts that God had designed for them to enjoy after living righteously and possibly only to receive in the next...

The Bible teaches that you can’t receive new powers until you forget the past, but I was unwilling to let the past go because I thought my salvation was dependent on my sacrifice and hard work and not on the love of God. Forgiveness is the condition of worship and worship is the precondition for...

The Secret to Greatness is Not Positive Thinking It is Respect. To do well in school, you must respect school. To have a beautiful figure, you must respect your image. To have a happy home life you must respect your home life and to have a healthy relationship with God, you must respect His Will...

I believe God has kept me single for the following reasons 1. To End The Cycle of Abuse Growing up with very critical and neglecting family members and having been integrated into a bunch of haphazard and disparaging communities, I grew up with the belief that abuse was normal and did not know...

I mentioned previously I came up with 40 symbolic uses for salt. Today I will add two more! 1. It is a symbol for usefulness. A useful Christian does things to benefit himself and his family and his world. He isn’t concerned purely with his own fun and entertainment and quality of life but seeks...

In my life, I had some of my biggest breakthroughs after going through severe pain or difficult trauma: My failed grades from school were deleted from my transcript because I reported health problems and provided them with medical evidence, leaving me with an improved record that made my grades...

This is an image of scales and I chose this image because scales are binary and when one opportunity is heavier, the other has no choice but to be low impact and inconsequential: In the same way, there are 13 decisions you can make that determine whether you will be a mature believer or an...

Salt serves different functions in society and can symbolize different things in scripture but what I’ve noticed is that in scripture, salt is both a sign of honour and a sign for dishonour: It is used on the offerings in God’s temple to establish social and moral value in religious ritual and...