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Topic: REDUCE (11/05/15)
What is society dictating about your ways of thinking and believing? As I go through my day so many things surround me that are programing my thoughts and actions. Where do I begin to dictate my mold and expectations of who I am in Jesus Christ and not let the World dictate my life? So many times it’s doing what I have to do and making less the priorities of what God has called me to do; which is making an impact in how I respond react and reach out to others. So let me not reduce my faith to the things of this World but scale it up to the Kingdoms work and its glory.
How do I (we) not dwindle down the Kingdoms glory in the midst of the worlds ways and its impact in our daily surroundings? I look to the characters of the Bible; one in particular is Daniel and his friends. They were curtailed to going to a new country, getting new names and learning new ways in Babylon; modern day 2015. This world of Babylon wanted them to do away with what they believed themselves to be in Jesus Christ. They were prisoners of their society; what else were they supposed to do? They did what they knew best and focused on obedience to God and His word and ways. When Daniels friends were backed in a corner and asked to relinquish their ways and reduce themselves to the ways of Babylon they said no. In the midst of death in the Lion’s den; they did not know if God was going to save them but they knew God and didn’t let others scale down their reaction in obedience to stepping out in faith. They went into the lion’s den with power that the Holy Spirit could only have filled them with. They stood strong in their faith in who God was and who they were in Him. They knew Him in all His glory and had submitted to Him so that others would not lessen their faith walk.
How about you? Are you letting others and the situations of the Babylon of 2015 scale you down to less then what the Lord has for you; or will you be conquerors and victors in Christ Jesus. He has called us to a higher level of strength and power in Him. Don’t let the world moderate your actions or prevent you from being all He wants you to be. I love Daniel and how he and his friends did not lessen their ways in following Jesus Christ but stood strong; as they stood strong Nations were changed. May I not be curtailed to the Babylon of 2015 but be a Daniel changer in all I say and do. May people and Nations come to know the Lord because I will not scale down myself to the ways of the Babylon of 2015.
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Yvonne Blake 
11/18/15
You have some great thoughts here. I agree, we need to be bold and strong in the Lord in these times.
It would improve your writing to find someone to help you with your puntuation and sentence structures.
Great writing! Keep it up.
Donna Powers
11/18/15
Your thoughts are clear and you are bold about the need to put God first. With a little work, this could be an excellent story!