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Discipline My Body

1st Corinthians 9:26-27 I need to discipline my body. I need to bring it to be subject to me. This means when the body doesn't want to do something, i overcome it and force it to do what it doesn't want. Amazing. If i have a life of doing things contrary to the desires of the body, that's when i excel. The body when left alone wants to leave responsibilities for "later", not move, work, and most of all to not pray. The recommendations of the body lead to hunger, failure, and troubles, but when i live contrary to the desires of the body i will be a great success

The Kingdom of God Spreading

"The parables of growth imply that the kingdom is already present, although they also express a future element of the Kingdom.   (Mt 13:24-53)" AMFCC Lectures - Kingdom of God (Page 2) Jesus likened the Kingdom of God to crops, trees, and plants.  The seed of the Kingdom is sown, and at the time of sowing, its so small and seems insignificant. For a long time people don't even notice it. In history, there was so much that was happening during the time of Christ, that you find history books full of other significant activity and events that occurred between 3BC and 33AD, making no mention of Jesus or the great things that we now know were taking during that time.  The kingdom then was like a seed sown in the ground. Only those with interest in the Kingdom knew that something great was brewing, while the rest of the world was treading unknowingly over the ground where the seed was sown, planning their lives, and doing business as usual. Jesus sowed the s...