Keith Craft: It is impossible to fight for what is righteousness and justice if in your…
It is impossible to fight for what is righteousness and justice if in your life, marriage, or world, you are not living righteously and justly. The way you live is what gives you authority, not what you say you believe.
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The transformational Power Jesus had to make the impossible...POSSIBLE, is that His life was THE PROOF of His Truth! • "You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.” - II Corinthians 3:2-3 NKJV • To be a living epistle means you are a living, breathing, walking letter of God’s goodness, righteousness, justice, glory, and grace!
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If you are not living and proving in your own life...in your own marriage, and exemplifying by your attitudes and actions...righteousness (God's way of doing things), justice, goodness in the midst of badness, glory, Grace (the power of God to do things God's way)...your fight will produce NOTHING but more chaos and disunity!
It starts with ME...then WE...then THEM!
To Jesus, WE are all the THEM, that He was praying for and proving in His life by being in UNITY with the Father (John 17).
Any change I want to see has to start with ME...then my WE (family, friends, and alignments). Then, I can have a chance to make UNITY happen with THEM...that are not in my WE.
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