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Press Through Until You Break Through

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BYTES   Press Through Until You Break Through Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13‭-‬14 {Extract from my book "Woman Of Faith"}: Do not just make a token effort to impress God. Press forward toward  your inheritance in Christ Jesus. Press through until you get to the breakthrough you have been hoping, praying and believing for! God does not reward half-hearted efforts. He will test you to see how badly you want what He has for you. Be like Perez (Genesis 38:27-30), Jesus ancestor, and press through until you break through! Keep your trajectory ever upward, reaching continuously for the prize of the upward call of God ready and waiting for you in Christ Jesus. Be assured, the view is spectacular from the top! Never Settle For Less Than God'...
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Word Study: Dianoia. How's Your Understanding?

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BYTES : Word Study: Dianoia. How's Your Understanding? And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. I John 5:20  Dianoia   Dianoia is Greek for understanding . Dianoia is a compound of two words, Dia + nous denoting the mind as a faculty of understanding, thinking, feeling and desiring.  Plato defined Dianoia as knowledge of the kind that falls short of the highest kind, that is noesis. He believed that nous was a higher mental faculty associated with the apprehension of unchanging, eternal truths. Whereas Dianoia was a lower mental faculty associated with fallible belief and the sensory world.  Aristotle divided Dianoia further into techné , or theoretical knowledge, and phronesis , or knowhow: practical and moral wisdom. Thus Dianoia is the human cognitive capacity for, process of, or result of discurs...
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Word Study: God's Highlights

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BYTES~   Word Study:  God's Highlights Nun|  Your Word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. Psalms 119:105 Highlights God's Word is a lamp to our feet.   That  is, God's Word glistens on, or lights up, the road ahead of us. We do not need to stumble around in the darkness of confusion or in that tunnel of voices which so easily distract us.  God's Word is also a light unto our path . It's as if God highlights the best path for us to take especially when we come to a bend in the road.   Just as you and I use highlights to call attention to high points, to things of major significance to us, or to illuminate text that holds special interest for us, so God uses His  highlights  to emphasize things of importance as we read His Word or as we go about our daily lives.  God's Highlights , well, stand out like Highlights . You could be reading a passage in the Bible when a word or phrase suddenly stands out to you,  seem...
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Word Study: Triggering

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BYTES~  Word Study :  Triggering Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Philippians 3:13‭-‬15 Triggering What can you just not forget from your past? Have you identified what triggers depression, anxiety, and fear in your life? What sparks of memory still trip you up so many years later?  Apostle Paul had trouble with his triggers in life as well. He had lived to persecute the church, having some killed, imprisoning others for their faith before he had his Damascus Road experience with Jesus. Some of his triggers were church  people rejecting him because they thought he was lying about his conversion. Many of his triggers were...
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Word Study: Paradidomi~He Gave His Life For Me

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BYTES~   Word Study: Paradidomi~He Gave His Life For Me I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me ;  the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.  Galatians 2:20 PARADIDOMI Gave Himself for me is PARADIDOMI in the Greek. Paradidomi is an interesting compound of two words: Para and didomi . Para> denotes being near, beside or in the vicinity of. Didomi> means to give, grant, commit, show or deliver (up).  Compound para+didomi and you get a word that means to deliver to one something to keep, use, take care of, or manage; to entrust to, to commit (something) to someone. Yet it also means to deliver up one to custody, to betray, deliver to prison. It  is used to describe how Judas betrayed Jesus to the authorities.  Paradidomi~  He Gave Himself For Me.   As you can see, Paradidomi basically means to give, or entrust, something...
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Word Study: Dioko> Follow (Hard) After

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BYTES~   Word Study:   Dioko> Follow (Hard) After Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after , if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.    Philippians 3:12 KJV.  Dioko>Follow (Hard) After Dioko   is the Greek for   Follow after and it literally   means to pursue, to persecute, follow (after), or to press toward. Dioko is an old hunting term meaning to follow the tracks or the scent of the animal. Dioko depicts a hunter deliberately and intentionally searching for, following after and ruthlessly hunting his prey. The hunter is determined to never stop until he has found what he is looking for. He follows hard after what he wants, in other words.  Dioko>Follow After...  What are some of the things we as Believers should be following hard after according to the Bible?  1. Dioko, Follow After, These: But thou, O man of God, flee these things; a...
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Word Study: The Word of God =The Mind of Christ

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BYTES~ Word Study: The Word of God＝Mind of Christ 1 Corinthians 2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ . This Is Truth＝ Jesus Is The Word of God The Word of God  & The Mind of Christ . Logos Theos＝The Word of God.  Logos means  something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse) also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is Christ); Word (Christ). Theos   means  God . The Mind of Christ ＝ Nous Christos. Nous   describes   the intellect, that is, the mind (divine or human; in thought feeling or will); by implication, meaning: - mind, understanding. Christos   means  Christ, Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ.  How can the Mind of Christ, Nous Christos,  be equal with  the Word of God, Logos Theos ? How can these things be? Well...
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