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Mind-Virgin: Saving More than Just Your Body

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                                       Mind-Virgin: Saving More than Just Your Body</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                                                                 By: Kristen Clark</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I walked down the long aisle in my beautiful silk dress. My heart pounded with excitement as I locked eyes with my handsome husband-to-be. He beamed from ear to ear as I slowly approached him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This was the day, the moment we had been anticipating for the past eight months.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We were both raised in Christian homes and were taught from a young age that saving sex for marriage was the Biblical and right thing to do. The anticipation of giving the gift of virginity to one another was overwhelmingly exciting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As perfect as we both looked that day…we knew we weren’t as pure on the inside. Yes, we had both saved our bodies for one another, but over the years we had both fallen prey to many impure thoughts and sexual temptations in our minds.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like me, so many Christian girls strive to save their virginity for their future husbands, but very few are as passionate about saving their “minds” for their husbands as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Being a virgin with your body is encouraged in every Bible believing church, but what about being a virgin with your<em style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"> mind</em> too?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The problem I had and that so many single Christian girls have today is that they’re saving their bodies for marriage, but aren’t saving their minds.They approach their wedding day as a physical virgin, but aren’t anything close to a virgin in their personal thought life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A lot of Christians think “lust” is just a guy problem…but I’m here to say it’s just as much of a girls problem. I’ve read story after story of Christian single girls who became enslaved to a certain lustful sexual sin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A lot of their lustful habits started out as innocently as browsing a Facebook page, accidentally stumbling across a bad website, reading a Christian romance novel, or wandering into an Abercrombie store.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One little thought, one little image, one little linger of the imagination slowly became an enslaving lustful habit for these girls.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We need to wake up and open up about this major problem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The internet filter review from ChristianityToday.com documents 70 percent of women keep their cyber activities secret. But, 1 of 3 visitors to all adult websites are women.” -Jonalyn Fincher</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">That means 7 out of 10 of you reading this blog right now keep your cyber activities a secret.</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keeping something a secret is usually done because you don’t want anyone else to know what you’re doing. Right? Sure, you might be saving your virginity for your wedding night, but what are you secretly doing in your mind?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I heard a great illustration in church last week about how every person is like a house.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We keep our front rooms looking clean and pretty for when the guests come over. We might even keep the kitchen clean and the bathrooms shiny. We want everyone to think our house is beautiful and free of dirt.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We keep those doors closed tight and don’t allow anyone in. Those rooms are full of dust, disorganized and are really dirty. We put on a good front, but keep our dirt behind closed doors.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Isn’t that so true when it comes to mental purity? We look so good on the outside! We’re pros at putting on the church smile and dressing nicely. In fact, we might even try to dress modestly and do godly things like saving sex for marriage; but our houses are dirty and rotten on the inside.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our hearts are filled with secret lust and impure thoughts.</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sadly, no matter how good you look on the outside, God sees exactly what’s going on in your private life. God sees exactly what you’re thinking every moment of every day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7b).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As a Christian girl, I want to challenge you right now to not only save your physically virginity for your future husband, but to also save your mind-virginity as well.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I want to challenge and encourage you to fight against your lustful flesh and to live a sexually pure life on the outside and on inside.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s being a mind-virgin too. Holiness and purity start inside with the heart and mind.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">How to win the battle against lust.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When Jesus met the woman at the well in John chapter 4, she was in the middle of struggling with some serious sexual sin of her own. She was shocked when Jesus knew about her dirty back rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She had bounced in and out of five different marriages and was currently living with her boyfriend. She was seeking sexual pleasure, security and fulfilment in all of these different men, but nothing satisfied her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She was thirsty and was never satisfied. That’s exactly how lust works. It promises satisfaction and fulfillment, but always leaves you thirsty for more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addressing her sexual sin Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water [sexual sin] will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again” (John 4:13-14).</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The only way to find freedom from lustful sin is to stop drinking the rotten water and start drinking the Water of Life.</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First, you have to expose those dirty rooms in your house by confessing your sins to God and asking for His forgiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Next, stop doing whatever it is that is feeding your lust. If it’s a certain Facebook page, romance novel, website, store, music group, etc. – get rid of it. Let me say that again – get RID of it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The easiest way to give into temptation is by making easy provisions for your flesh. Build walls of protection and accountability around yourself to avoid falling into the same traps.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last, drink from the Living Water every day.</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This means opening up your Bible and spending a good chunk of time reading God’s word. This means spending a good chunk of time praying and asking God for strength every day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The more you invest in your relationship with Jesus, the more you love Him and the less you will love the sin of this world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Freedom starts today.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Will you choose to be a virgin with your body and your mind?</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Are you struggling with secret lustful sins right now? If so, my prayer is that you will take this blog post as a sign that it’s time to confess those sins and to live a pure life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What water are you drinking from each day? The dirty water of our world or the Living Water of Jesus?</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">For more help on this topic, check out this book: <a href="http://www.joshharris.com/sex_is_not_the_problem_lust_is.php" style="border: none; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sex is Not the Problem, Lust is.</a></strong></div>
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Mind-Virgin: Saving More than Just Your Body

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7 Ways Traveling Can Refresh Your Relationship

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">There are moments when you and your partner realize that you need something new in your relationship. You would like to experience new emotions and feelings, which may fire up your love. When you travel together, you share common goals, enhance closeness and usually have a better romance. Furthermore, you have an opportunity to discuss basic things, have fun and share secrets with your sweetheart. You don’t have to put many efforts to fulfill this dream since traveling is absolutely available today. Everything depends on you and your desire to have a good time with your significant other. If you have already decided to travel, then you should agree your plans with your loved one, if it’s not a secret or surprise.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many couples say that traveling together helps refresh any relationship. When you’re relaxed you have more chances to experience new pleasures. So if you feel that intimacy is missing from your relationship, you should find time to travel together. Here are a few ways traveling can refresh your relationship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every moment of time spent with your partner creates a basis for your relationship. Your memories are your common riches and achievements. Since life is too short you should try to create as many pleasant memories as you can. When you become old, you’ll be able to recollect warm and precious memories of your youth, sitting on the sofa together with your beloved. Moreover, your life experience and memories create your future vision of the world, because the points you find in yourself right now are the result of your actions and thoughts. Traveling will teach you to develop the skills on how to live an interesting life and strengthen your relationship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Traveling can both teach you and inspire you to get out of your comfort zone. It can help you share unforgettable moments with the person you adore. This interesting and inspiring activity fills your hearts with new experiences and broadens your horizons. Moreover, you may experience the wonder of seeing various worlds’ miracles. Plus, you may get new skills when you try to do something you’ve never done before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">Every person creates their own world around themselves. Their world consists of their home, work, circle of contacts, daily schedules and problems. When you travel, you get away from your troubles and enjoy the beauty of the world around. You are free to behave the way you like and do things you adore. It’s better to do it together with the person you love. No one will judge you and your new style of life. Your significant other can even open up to you.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">Traveling is a perfect way to relax and enjoy each other’s company. When traveling, you have the right to postpone everything that can affect your relationship. You’re welcome to create amazing moments and adventures. You’ll always look back to these wonderful moments with a frank smile on your face. This world is full of places, which can help you have lots of fun and receive a big portion of happiness. Fun times can replace your negative outlook by a more positive one and it will help to strengthen your relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">5. Learning something new together</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">When you and your partner travel together, both of you can learn something new about the world. You visit different places and enjoy spectacular sights. This exciting experience can intensify your passion and love. When visiting different countries, you can learn about cultures and the history of many nations. It will make both of you more knowledgeable and all-rounded people. This way of spending time with your beloved will guarantee you new emotions and a long, healthy relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">6. Traveling inspires you to face life again</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">The main purpose of traveling is to refresh your mind and get you ready to face the life with a smile on your face. Its revitalizing effect reduces stress and helps both of you get rid of depressive moods and develop positive thinking. You’ll be full of positive emotions and memories about the place or country you visit. I believe that traveling together can help heal a relationship, if you still feel love running in your veins.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Traveling can bring you majestic and unbelievably wondrous evenings full of satisfaction and romance. You’ll have an opportunity to focus on each other and enjoy the moments spent together somewhere far from your home. There are many picturesque and romantic places around the world. Just get out of your daily routine and try something new. I’m sure that traveling won’t let your flame die, no matter how low the flame at the present moment is.</span></div>
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The Mind

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The mind is structured to carry out two basic functions. These are;<br />
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<b>Storage</b><br />
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This function involves the ability to picture or photograph, file, record, store and replay pictures and information of the past. This implies that our past is stored in the memory location of the mind.<br />
Imagination/Thinking/ Reasoning<br />
Apart from storage the mind is structured and imbued with the ability to originate or generate whatever it wishes through the power of imagination. It is this ability that is employed in inventions. The mind does the work of thinking, sketching, designing, drawing, modeling of what we wish to happen. The wonderful thing is that there is an inherent ability in the mind to follow-up its own design, wish or ambition with such a drive that works its way towards the completion of what is on paper. That is why when a man is destroyed in the mind, that man is truly finished; that’s the devil target.<br />
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<b>Memory and Imagination</b><br />
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“Memory arrests the past and replays it to you while imagination arrests your future and pre-plays it to you.”<br />
When David came face to face with Goliath, his confidence in God, which was already registered in his mind became manifest. Someone has rightly said that, “Wars do not make brave men, it only reveals them.”<br />
David said,<br />
“Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine, your servant will go and fight him.”<br />
 King Saul replied young David,<br />
“You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been fighting from his youth.”<br />
 These deadly, imposing and intimidating spiritual arrows from King Saul were shot at David but it met a superior fire power. David refused to be intimidated and so responded rightly. His memory location was activated to replay the past for him to read and draw courage and strength for facing his giant. And there, the war was fought and won; in the Mind.<br />
Look at what David remembered and let King Saul into,<br />
“Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them…The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” [Psalm 17: 32-37, NIV]<br />
What a confidence!<br />
David remembered what a difference the help of the LORD made in those encounters. His past was replayed to prepare him for the next challenge of life. His mind was also able to activate and pre-play the future for David to see. That is why he could say to Goliath,<br />
“This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beast of the earth, and the whole World will know that there is a God in Israel. All these gathered here will know that it is not by sword or by spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.” [Verses 46-47].<br />
And after declaring all he was seeing in the pre-play, he was given the resources of heaven to bring what he has in mind to the physical.<br />
Beloved, it is this kind of mindset that the devil seeks to destroy through different sexual temptations; a mind that is able to confront life’s challenges with the confidence and resources of heaven. The battle between David and Goliath was a battle of ‘minds’. In the same way, all the battles that we face today are battles of ‘minds’. It is interesting the way David painted the picture of victory. His victory was so clear to him. Even King Saul was swept off his feet. This is what made him allow David to fight Goliath.”<br />
“Imagination is a product of your soul. However, your soul comprises of your mind, will, intellect and your emotions. With your mind, therefore, you can think and reason out whatever you want to do.”<br />
The Devil’s Target<br />
Now, the target of the devil is to incapacitate, hamper, make ineffective or weaken the ability of God in you for giving birth and fulfilling your destiny in Christ Jesus. His target is to use sexual immorality to cage your mind and introduce subtle but cancerous and destructive tendencies in your life so that your destiny will be destroyed. Will you let him?<br />
You need to understand things from the right perspective. The enemy of our souls is after the engine room of our thinking faculty. Let’s put it in another way, the devil wants to block the ability of your mind from operating at the level which results to excellence, glory and fulfillment of destiny in Christ Jesus. He does not mind if you make it in the things and glories of this world so long as he is sure that you are off track from the path of godliness and purity. You have to stop him!<br />
It’s a battle of ‘minds’!<br />
Every sinful lifestyle or habit of fornication, masturbation, adultery, pornography, lesbianism, homosexuality, rape, lust and immorality has a goal. The enemy’s target is to ‘switch off the button’ that links you up with the true source of light for a glorious destiny in Christ. He knows that without light the mind will grope in darkness, with no sense of direction; doing things as it pleases the flesh instead of pleasing the Lord.<br />
So we need to watch that ‘pleasurable’ gazing at the nakedness of the opposite sex, in movie or photo so as to maintain our connection to the ability of God that helps us to work and walk towards the fulfillment of His purpose for our lives.<br />
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<b>Simply Put</b><br />
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Every sexual sin is supposed to among other things, blind or corrupts the memory and imaginative (reasoning) ability so that the child of God will remain where he is without even knowing that he/she is not moving forward. It makes its victims blind to the essentials necessary for keeping our relationship with the Savior in a healthy state. It re-aligns the mind for pursuing things (working and living for things and for the glories of this world).<br />
The fact that the devil, through temptations of unimaginable dimensions, always want to capitalize on our susceptibility to sin, but pretending to be providing pleasure while the real target is to steal our great future and destiny in the Lord, demands unrelenting striving, with the power of God at work in us, to maintain healthy atmosphere in our minds for godly thinking. We need to be mindful of our thoughts.<br />
Run from every transient and empty pleasure of the flesh which have robed many great men and women of their worth. Our attainment of greatness is dependent upon the response of our minds as we face challenges of life. Therefore greatness is not what we attain through acquisition of things or connection to certain caliber of people but we become great in our minds when we are aligned and obey the dictates of the new Covenant in Christ.<br />
So do not exchange your great future in Christ with a sinful pleasure that lasts but for a while.</div>

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