by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 19, 2013 | anger, beliefs, holiness, obedience, self-protective sinful strategies
In our last post, we began to see the foundation for the temptations that led to Balaam’s anger. He is being offered approval, distinction, and prosperity by King Balak. Aren’t those three things that we all want? Little by little, Balaam’s...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 16, 2013 | holiness, knowing and understanding God, obedience, purposes, temptation
As I continue to read through the Bible, I keep noticing things I hadn’t before. Or knowing my brain…I read them before but forgot. So when I read again about the famous Balaam, I noticed some things that motivated me to write about anger: it’s...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 11, 2013 | heart change, idols, repentance, surrender
In my last post, we talked about “sitting in it” so that we can identify the motives of our hearts. Here’s a further way of “sitting” as given by Elyse Fitzpatrick in her book Idols of the Heart, a book I’ve highly recommended in...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 8, 2013 | freedom, people pleasing, repentance, surrender
We’re so glad that Joseph’s brothers came to the point of repentance and surrender. Being in prison had quite an impact on them.What we may not realize is that God puts each of us in a kind of “prison” so that we also can come to the point of...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 2, 2013 | guilt, heart change, repentance, surrender, trials
We’re continuing in our story about Joseph and his brothers. Next, Joseph puts all the brothers in prison for three days. Let’s pick up the story: “Now Joseph said to them on the third day, ‘Do this and live, for I fear God: if you are...
