Free 101 Faith Notes by Pauline Creeden

101 FAITH NOTES
    Scriptures and Meditations on God’s Promises
     
    Written by Pauline Creeden
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    All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide.
     
    Scripture quotations marked AMP are taken from the AMPLIFIED BIBLE Copyright ©1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by the Lockman foundation.
     
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    About the Author: Pauline Creeden is an avid reader, reviewer, and writer. When she is not training horses and riders for the show ring, she reviews for Thomas Nelson Publishers, Amazon.com, Tyndale, Zondervan, and many others. Her articles have been published in Christian Magazines, and on her blogs. The quotes throughout this text are portions of those articles.
     
    Acknowledgements and Note from the Author : Thank you to my husband for his continued support and love for me. I have to thank my friends at Christian Writers and CIAindie, without your encouragement and advice, this book would never have been published. Finally, thank you reader for taking the time to pick up this book. It is my hope that you will be blessed with a deeper understanding and relationship with your Jesus.
     

 
     
    WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN
     
    1. One of the common misconceptions about Christians is that once you’ve been covered by Christ, you no longer sin or make bad decisions. But that’s not true. The difference is that when we fall down into the pit of sin, we don’t stay there. Christians get up and get going again.
     
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    2. For though the righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity (Proverbs 24:16)
     
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    3. No matter how far away from the Master we have wondered away, He will search for us and call us until His work is complete.
     
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    4. Being confident in this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)
     
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    5. You have to think differently, and agree with God that what you have been doing is sin. It does not matter whether you were willful in your sin or if you sinned “accidently” – the response to the knowledge of the sin must be the same: repent.
     
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    6. The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least put on sackcloth. (Jonah 3:5)
     
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    7. The first step in repentance is to agree with God that you have sinned and stop reasoning with yourself that you are okay; that what you’re doing is not sin.
     
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    8. If we confess our sins, He is faith ful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
     
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    9. Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believe d in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12)
     
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    10. Unfortunately sin has this addictive quality to it. Once you start, it becomes so hard to quit. This is why God tries to