“A life lived denying yourself is one where you choose to die to yourself daily. It actually goes deeper than being just a choice, it’s a constant yielding of ourselves to God. We can never do this in our own strength, but by the power of His Spirit we receive both the desire and the power to walk in the glorious destiny of the death of self. All we need to do is be willing. It starts from waking up in the morning by making a conscious decision to do the will of God and not your own. Normally, when someone wakes up in the morning, they can be in either a good mood or a bad mood, if I were to put it in simple terms. If you choose to die to yourself, you need to no longer live your life dictated by what you feel, but by submitting your feelings to Christ. I used to wonder why I wasn’t feeling that ‘close’ to God like I used to when I had unhindered intimacy with Him, but I recently understood that it was because I would start the day in my own strength, based on my own thinking[…]”

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Glorious Destiny by Estera Marian
Estera Marian
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