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Ego Edging God Out Of Our Lives
Contributed by Dr. Madana Kumar, Phd on Jul 22, 2018 (message contributor)
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1. Ego: Edging God Out Part 1
Contributed on Jul 22, 2018
Jesus left us with a great inheritance. An inheritance of God's presence and His fellowship. However, many of us fail to experience that sweet fellowship because we Edge God Out of our lives. How do we do this? What are the consequences?
EGO: Edging God Out On Good Friday, we examined whether Jesus left us a will, a will bequeathing everything He had to us, which included the awesome presence of God. We established that Jesus actually did exactly that. John 17:24 (NKJV) Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with ...read more
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2. Ego Part 2: Edging God Out Through Pride And Fear
Contributed on Jul 22, 2018
The main way in which we Edge God out of our lives is through pride and fear. Let us examine if we have this problem and if we have how to deal with it
Edging God Out through Pride and Fear It is almost the end of your second module. The freshers’ night is long over. Yet, permit me to start today by picking on the Freshers a little bit. For those of you who no more consider yourselves as freshers, please try to look back to a time when you were a ...read more
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3. Ego Part 3: Edging God Out Through Pride
Contributed on Jul 22, 2018
We are all proud of our achievements. Many times we could be proud of our spirituality itself. What causes that? What are the effects of that? Is there an antidote?
EGO_ Edging God Out through Pride Last time I preached here, we started a study on what prevents us from fully enjoying the inheritance that Jesus left us, viz; the presence of God. What prevents us from enjoying God’s presence? We saw that it is our EGO. Not the Freudian stuff of ego, but really ...read more
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4. Ego Part 4: Edging God Out Through Fear
Contributed on Jul 22, 2018
One of the ways we Edge God out is when when we ignore the fear of the Lord and fall prey to fear of men. How does fear impact our relationship with God? What is the antidote?
EGO _ Edging God Out through Fear There is a reality show on TV called the Fear Factor. The participants are challenged to conquer their fears across many things and then one person wins a good amount of money. The “activities” include, staying in closed spaces, being with disgusting creepy crawly ...read more
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5. Edging God Out Through Un-Forgiveness
Contributed on Oct 28, 2018
One of the many ways we Edge God Out of our lives is by our inability to forgive.
We are studying the different ways in which we Edge God out of our lives. The ways in which we separate ourselves from God. Till now we have examined the issue of Ego, Pride and Fear. Today we will take a look at the biggie, Unforgiveness. All of us have gone through situations where we have been ...read more
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6. Ego : Edging God Out Through Busyness
Contributed on Nov 5, 2018
When was the last time you had a one on one time of Solitude with the Lord? Are you too busy and thus Edging God out?
EGO: Edging God Out through Busyness How many of us woke up to an “alarm” this morning? Most of us; isn’t it? Have you really thought about why is it called the “alarm”? Come to think about it, what is alarm most commonly associated with? It is associated with a disaster to come, a danger ahead, ...read more
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7. Edging God Out Through Entitlement
Contributed on Nov 11, 2019
There are several ways we Edge God Out. One of them is by the sense of Entitlement that many of us strongly feel. The antidote is to Exalt God Only through Thanksgiving.
Edging God Out through Entitlement I have used the acronym EGO before, and some of you might remember it. Edging God Out. There are various ways we Edge God Out of our lives. We have examined some of them in my past messages here, and I would like to continue on the same theme. Today, let us ...read more
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8. Edging God Out Through Victim Mentality
Contributed on Nov 19, 2019
Christians are Called to be Victors, but many of us are victims to the Victim Mentality and thereby Edge God out of our lives.
Edging God Out through Victim Mentality I have spoken here about Edging God Out. We have examined several ways in which we Edge God Out. Pride, Fear, Busyness, Unforgiveness, A sense of Entitlement ae some of the ways in which we Edge God out of our lives. Today we are going to examine another ...read more