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How Long, O Lord? A Meditation on Habakkuk
How long can we wait? As Christians, we read this and are still looking for God’s action. Even the coming of Jesus didn’t slow down the wickedness we see all around us. And, often times, this wickedness pervades our lives and slows us down. How long, O God?
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Our King Complex
David was a great King who had ruled Israel with an iron hand for 40 years. But, time had caught up with him. Things the old king use to do, he could not do anymore. And so, the hell hounds came out of the cracks and crevices.
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Is It Safe To Walk Into Your Doctor's Office?
Are you aware of the not so obvious perils of walking into your doctor's office/ No, I'm not talking about the bacteria and viruses. Rather I'm talking about something even more dangerous, the effects on your bio-field of what your doctor thinks about illness.
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Christian Religious Addiction in Hawaii?
What are the factors that result in the phenomenon of religious addiction? What is adaptive and what is damaging within a religious environment. What are the symptoms that manifest when one is victimized by an abusive religious leader or an addictive belief system? This literature review will attempt to answer these questions and others related to the development, assessment, symptomatology, and beliefs of religious addiction.
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Be Filled With The Spirit!
Be filled with the Spirit.… always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. -EPHESIANS 5:18, 20
Some years ago, a couple traveled from their home in Chicago to Arrowhead Springs to talk to me about an idea they had. “We heard your lecture on how to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Our lives have been dramatically changed as a result,” they said enthusiastically. “We have come to encourage you to go on national television to tell Christians everywhere how they can know the Holy Spirit and experience His revolutionary impact in and through their lives.”
I am humbly grateful to God for the privilege of teaching these great truths concerning the Holy Spirit to tens of millions of people through-out the world, often with the same dramatic results this couple enjoyed. To be effective lighthouses for Jesus Christ, we must be empowered by the Holy Spirit. Without that filling, we will fail miserably in our spiritual lives and accomplish little to reach other people for Christ.
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You Are Not Your Stuff
We humans are a funny, funny breed. We spend our entire lives working and working and working to acquire ‘stuff’. We buy and surround ourselves with the biggest, fanciest this or that when all the while what we really need and want is something you can’t buy anywhere. The thing we all spend our time doing is looking to experience a feeling of significance
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What Is The Spiritual Path?
We confuse ourselves about the meaning of the spiritual path. And because of this confusion, we never embark on it. Yet the end of confusion comes from looking at the essence of true spirituality. Once we capture that essence, we can act in a way that sets our feet on that path.
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Snowflakes
The human race had their beginning, and I had mine – in this lifetime, anyway.
Growing up in a cultural melting pot like Chicago set a great foundation for my different drummer to build on. I grew up in a town with six million people; every one of them was different from the next...
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Animal Totems
In Shamanism, there is much importance given to animals as guides, totems and helpers. This is more than just having a favorite animal or being attracted to butterflies. Animals have been used as a source of diagnosis in healing and counseling by Shamans all around the world throughout recorded history.
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Why Sit Here Until I Die?
The bible tells a story about four men who sat at the entrance of the city's gate dying with leprosy, an incurable disease which causes terribly visible swelling and sores on the skin, only then to eat inward to the bones.
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My Search for the Truth
Over the past five years, many people have been committed to mental institutions, tortured, detained, imprisoned, and even killed, simply for refusing to give up this practice...
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Sole Work - Walking the Spiritual Path
For the past several years I have struggled with getting (and staying) fit. Ok I admit it, the struggle has been longer than just a few years. As a kid, instead of playing nicely with the girls, I fought with the neighborhood boys. I attempted to join their fun and received new scars weekly in bloody games of soccer. I was always the last one picked to play on the kickball team and, as the catcher of my 5th grade softball team, I pummeled the pitcher in the head with a fast ball. Uncoordinated in team sports, I succeeded only at baton twirling which was fun but I barely broke a sweat. After failures in group sports I thought I'd try running so, a few years ago I attempted to train for a half marathon. I ended up limping home in tears and thought I’d never exercise again. (I couldn't even MOVE after that, much less exercise!)
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Stress 8 - Relieving Stress with Exercise
Do you want to look and feel better? If so, put more exercise in your schedule. One of the major benefits of exercise is that it keeps your body healthy, and it provides a great stress relief. Another significant benefit is that-
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Controlling Stress For The Student
Do you feel discouraged because you are not reaching the milestones that you have given yourself in school? Are they not going through the way you thought they would? Do you feel that you are letting your parents down with the grades you are bringing home? The thing to do is to take a look inside and what is making these things happen.
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Everything You Need to Know about Panic Attacks
A panic attack, as the words indicate, is some sort of intense fear that grips you quite suddenly, without any warning whatsoever. You panic under a very strong bout of anxiety or fear about losing physical and mental control. You may feel emotionally unstable and your behavior may change from steady to erratic. This is because a panic attack makes you feel physically and mentally debilitated. A feeling of utter helplessness may overwhelm you when under a panic attack. The two most important expressions that describe it closely are ‘sudden’ or ‘abrupt’ and 'intense fear.' When you suffer repeated panic attacks at frequent, regular or irregular intervals, you are said to be suffering from a panic disorder.
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What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
While the majority of people do at some time or another worry about something in their life whether major or trivial, there are some people who worry constantly on a day-to-day basis, week in and week out. If you are one of these people then you have what is classed as a generalized anxiety disorder.
Generalized anxiety disorder is classed in those who feel anxious or fearful on the majority of days. The feelings they have with the fear are varied and the depth at which they feel the feelings can be different from one day to the next. The feelings associated with generalized anxiety disorder are the same as those anyone who suffers any anxiety disorder feels. The most common are a fast heart rate or beat, palpitations of the heart, a sick feeling in the pit of the stomach or stomachache, sweating, a dry mouth, chest pain and a feeling of not being able to get enough breathe.
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Stress - Coping With Stress
Each of us has moments when the stress in our lives seems overwhelming. We've just started a new job, had a baby, gotten married or faced an illness. But every day life can be filled with stressful moments as well. Here are a few tips to help life balance out.
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Stress Management Hypnosis
Relatively new, hypnotherapy is increasingly becoming a popular way to manage and control psychological troubles like stress. A qualified person would hypnotize you and make suggestions to your subconscious.
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How To Be Happy Under Stress
With the stress that has become the part and parcel of our life today, it has become imperative for us to know how to be happy. It can be easily achieved by a simple smile. The old adage, Smile and the world smiles with you holds true even today. Or it may touch us through our relationships and love of work. Anything that gives us comfort or pleasure will teach us how to be happy.
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Relieve Your Stress Related Symptom- Panic, Anxiety and Other Stress Related Symptoms
Having a plan for what to do and a habit of using your plan can go a long way towards finally relieving yourself of the cycle of stress. Take the time now to think about your stress, first as the idea of being stressed. That's the first step to developing a plan for this. Now, try thinking about the last time you actually experienced stress.
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Anxiety Disorder, Social - Treatment That Works
Several of the people I've worked with recently have told me privately that they suffer from varying degrees of Social Anxiety Disorder. Treatment for each of them varies from no treatment to drug therapy and regular counseling. Since I've had my own challenges with Agoraphobia, Anxiety and Panic, I czn relate to what they're going through. No two people are alike, and no two experiences of these problems are the same.
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