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Not a victim #8 Knowing who you are In Christ
Psalms 139:14 “I will praise You because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well.” In my last post I mentioned I was going to blog about how to live with a narcissistic personality type, not change them. First let me clarify here that I am not an expert! God is! He made each of us! He’s the only one who can change any of us. He’s ruler over the physical AND spiritual realms! With that being said, let me first emphasize the importance of this first step… And the reason I can share this with authority is because it comes…
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Truth
Our world seems to be spinning out of control. We don’t know who or what to believe. We can’t tell who is trustworthy and who is not. We hear what we thought was truth being torn apart as false. We are told things that seem comical, in that we think how can anybody believe those lies?! Yet we hear the lies so often we question them ourself. Mark 13:22 For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect. | Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) We are a people full of anxiety, fear and depression. We are taught…
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Leaning on God in a Narcissistic World Not a victim #7
Psalms 56:13 For You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life. | Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) As I’m reading/listening to my devotions this morning, this scripture comes alive in my mind. It reminds me of what is going on in our world today. It reminds me of what happens when I get all flustered and start questioning myself when interacting with a narcissistic person. My mind was awakened by these words. This is a prayer by David in the bible. He was being hunted down. He was hated by the people who were threatened and wanted to be…
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Happy New Year 2022
1 Corinthians 14:1 Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and above all that you may prophesy. | Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) | Download The Bible App Now This past year, 2021, the JVR Prayer blogs were about the Fruits of the Spirit. For 2022 I feel led to blog about the Spiritual Gifts. While all of the Fruits of the Spirit are for all believers of Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Gifts are more specialized gifts for Gods chosen people. This subject has always been an interest to me, and there’s a lifetime of information on the subject. There are many different types of tests to determine what your Spiritual…
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WARNING!!! DANGER!!!
I’ve just cleaned up my website blogs! 40,000 spam comments throughout all 218 blogs! First, let me apologize if any of these spam comments caused any of you discomfort or inconvenience! AND let me apologize because IF you did leave a comment on the website it did get deleted. I now have a program in place to keep away the spam, however the 40,000 were approved so I manually took them off. Needless to say all of the comments got deleted. Most of the spam were ads or junk, but quite a few were nasty and offensive. This being said, I’ve spent some time looking over my blogs these past…
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Reflect on Thanks Giving!!!
https://bible.com/bible/72/1co.1.7.HCSB As we come to the last couple of months of 2021 and the end of the Fruit of the Spirit Blog series, I wanted to bring the fruits all together. A beautiful basket of fruit, a gift of gifts. A basket of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faith, Gentleness and self control. What a Basket! What a way to celebrate Thanksgiving! Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. These past couple of years have been times of turmoil and challenges beyond challenges for most every person on earth. On top…
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Not a Victim Blog #6
Since my last post I’ve been researching narcissism and what God has to say about the subject in His Word. The book, “The First Will Be Last” (DC Robertsson) was recommended to me by a Facebook writing group member. Here’s a link for research, https://biblicalperspectivesonnarcissism.com/category/5-dealing-with-narcissists/5-practical-actions/ I also found a couple of books at Barns and Noble on the subject. I’m not going to reference them here because I’ve not yet researched the authors or reading material to be able to comment either way. But if you are doing your own research, they are located in the Psychology genre section under Narcissists and Gaslighting. As noted in the book mentioned earlier,…
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The Fruit of the Spirit: Self Control
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. As I’m writing this blog on the final spiritual gift, I find it very convenient that I just finished a blog post about how I gave in and lost control. See my post, Not A Victim Post #5 to understand what I’m referring to. God is speaking to us all the time. But are we listening? Self control. Today, as I write this blog, I have a totally new perspective on this Fruit of the Spirit, Self Control. 2 Peter 1:6 knowledge with self-control, self-control…
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Not a Victim Blog #5
Well, I messed up!! I’m not proud of myself at all. I became that person I used to judge from the side lines. But it was all me! I lost it! It’s amazing how much power a narcissistic personality has, when the target is not rooted in Gods word and not immersed with the power of prayer. I didn’t start the day out with specific prayer for the moment. I didn’t come prepared. I reacted in a moment of weakness. I allowed the narcissist to bring me down to their level. I became the victim allowing the narcissist to claim a victim triumph. After this devastating show of defeat, the…
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Not a Victim Blog #4
“Keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.” Hebrews 12:2 HCSB https://bible.com/bible/72/heb.12.2.HCSB As I wait at the airport I overhear a conversation between three women. They could very well be talking about the person I’ve been referring to in this blog. Their situation was different but the dialogue was the same. Sitting on the receiving end what I hear seems to be so petty and annoying. However, I’ve been on their side too many times and I understand their pain. …