Satisfy The Craving

Leon FontaineDevoted

I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. John 6:35 (NLT) When I was young, my mom baked 24–30 loaves of bread per week to feed our family of seven. I can still remember like it was yesterday. I would walk through the front door of our house and be enveloped in the aroma of freshly baked bread. We would slather butter on thick slabs of warm bread until it melted and ran down our fingers. My four brothers and I could easily polish off two or three loaves in one sitting. Nothing tastes better than good food when you’re hungry. But you also experience other forms of hunger that …

Always For Your Good

Leon FontaineDevoted

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28 (NLT) Let’s pretend that you love golf and you have a chance to hang out with the world’s top ranked golfer. As you head out onto the course, he offers to give you a few tips to improve your game. Would you say to him, “Stop telling me what to do. I’ll play the way I want to!” Anyone who wants to get better at golf would be crazy to respond this way. Yet we do this with God all the time. God wants to show you how to build the best life you can have—a …

Valor por si mismo no importa lo que sea

Leon FontaineEntregate

¿No se venden cinco pajarillos por dos moneditas? Sin embargo, Dios no se olvida de ninguno de ellos. En cuanto a ustedes mismos, hasta los cabellos de la cabeza él los tiene contados uno por uno. Así que no tengan miedo: ustedes valen más que muchos pajarillos. Lucas 12:6-7 (DHH) Ayer hablamos sobre el hecho de que la autoconfianza es muy diferente de la autoestima. Desarrollamos autoconfianza en un área de nuestras vidas cuando tenemos experiencia y un buen historial en esa área, cuando nos hemos vuelto más competentes para hacer algo. La autoestima, por otra parte, no necesita estar relacionada con nuestro desempeño en absoluto. Muchas veces las unimos. Sentimos que si nos desempeñamos a un nivel más alto, valemos más. Pero ese es …

El auto-valor arraigado en el amor de dios

Leon FontaineEntregate

Que Cristo viva en sus corazones por la fe, y que el amor sea la raíz y el fundamento de sus vidas. Y que así puedan comprender con todo el pueblo santo cuán ancho, largo, alto y profundo es el amor de Cristo. Efesios 3:17-18 (DHH) ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre autoestima y confianza en uno mismo? A menudo confundimos los dos términos, pero en realidad, son totalmente diferentes. La confianza en sí mismo viene de lo que usted ha logrado en la vida, su experiencia, su historial, su rendimiento. La verdadera autoestima, por otra parte, se basa en el amor de Dios por usted; se trata de saber lo que usted vale para él. Estar arraigado y establecido en el amor de Dios tiene un efecto …

Enjoy God Every Day

Leon FontaineDevoted

Then you will delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. Isaiah 58:14 (AMP) According to Isaiah 58:14, as you learn to enjoy God, He causes you to ”ride high and soar above it all” (MSG). He wants you to do great things. Just to clarify, there is a big difference between living a great life and living a famous life. I know plenty of great people who are unknown, and I can think of plenty famous people that I wouldn’t call great either. Hitler was famous, but he certainly was …