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Originally Posted by Kansas Preacher
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God, teach us -- teach ME -- to pray more. Help me to become MORE "spiritually minded" than I am right now. I do NOT fear that I will reach a place where I will be "so heavenly minded that I am no earthly good." I do, however, fear that I may one day become "so earthly minded I am no Heavenly good."
"But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway" (1 Corinthians 9:27).
Honest confession is good for the soul. |
Amen.
I pray that same prayer.
By the way, I heard a preacher comment on that Scripture (
1 Cor 9:27) one time. He mentioned the two English words that are both spelled "buffet." He said that we need to "buffet" (BUF-it) our bodies but too often we "buffet" (BOO-fay) them.