Grace - Actions Begin With Beliefs

Here's a great quote from Joseph Prince:

"People are struggling to control their behaviors and actions because they don't have control over their emotions and feelings. They don't have control over their emotions and feelings because they don't have control over their thoughts. And they don't have control over their thoughts because they are not controlling what they believe. Put simply, if you believe wrong, you will struggle with wrong thoughts. Those wrong thoughts will produce unhealthy emotions that will lead to toxic feelings of guilt, shame, condemnation, and fear. And those wrong feelings will ultimately produce wrong behaviors, actions, and painful addictions. What you believe is critical. And wrong believing is the trigger that starts you on a path of defeat. It is what keeps you trapped and drives you deeper and deeper into paralyzing captivity. The good news is there is a way out of this vicious cycle of defeat."

Prince, Joseph (2013-10-22). The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear,  Guilt, and Addiction (pp. viii-ix). FaithWords. Kindle Edition.

Grace=Peace,

Jeremy

Grace - When You Repent, the More Tears Shed, the Better

...well not exactly!  Haha!

Here's what Charles Spurgeon has said:

"A curious idea men have of what repentance is!  Many fancy that so many tears are to be shed, and so many groans are to be heaved, and so much despair is to be endured.  Whence comes this unreasonable notion?  Unbelief and despair are sins, and therefore I do not see how they can be constituent elements of acceptable repentance; yet there are many who regard them as necessary parts of true Christian experience.  They are in great error.  Still, I know what they mean, for in the days of my darkness I used to feel in the same way.  I desired to repent, but I thought that I could not do it, and yet all the while I was repenting.  Odd as it may sound, I felt that I could not feel.  I used to get into a corner and weep, because I could not weep; and I feel into bitter sorrow because I could not sorrow for sin.  What a jumble it all is when in our unbelieving state we begin to judge our own condition!  It is like a blind man looking at his own eyes.  My heart was melted within me for fear, because I thought that my heart was as hard as an adamant stone.  My heart was broken to think that it would not break.  Now I see that I was exhibiting the very thing which I thought I did not possess; but then I knew not where it was."  Charles Spurgeon, All of Grace, p. 65.

Grace=Peace,

Jeremy