5 Steps To Christian Growth

Like birth that involves a child being born and gradually growing to an adult, so is Christianity. There is also birth and growth to adult hood in Christianity. Christianity is not a Religion it is a understanding of the death on the cross of Calvary. To the world dead on the cross is foolishness but unto us it is power leading to salvation. This are the 5 steps to Christian growth...

1 Understanding Your Helper: Your helper to Christianity is the Holy Spirit. Understanding the Bible is a very difficult task. Infact you can't understand the Bible as a human. You need divine interpretation to better understand the Bible. The Holy Spirit is a person that lives in a body (you.) He is going to teach you the power of resurrection.

2 Read The Bible: Do not assume you already know what is written in the Bible. You need to read it. Don't speed read it like one of your story books, take some time, wonder at the words you see, ask questions, tell the Holy Spirit to interpret what you can't understand. If you are a beginner, the start with Mathew, Mark, Luke and John since they are narrating the story of Jesus Christ.

3 Daily Devotionals: These are short articles written by those with a better understanding of the Bible (called Bible Scholars.) They choose scriptures in the Bible and explain the human connection to that particular scriptures. Sometimes it is hard to pick up and Bible and just start writing. It is easier to turn to daily devotionals if you have such a problem. You will be reading the Bible and then getting explanation to it. That is like killing two birds with one stone eh.

4 Fellower Believers. Not all believers will encourage you in the faith. This is a very big problem for those of you that will start with the faith. But there are those that can really help you grow in the faith. Find them by using the spirit of descendent. This is for the advanced Christians.

5 Prayer: The Bible has a way it puts it that sounds so good ''prayer is the key, prayer is the key, prayer is the masters key, Jesus started with prayer and ended with prayer, prayer is the masters key.'' That sounded like a little song right. Some people think praying is weak, it is not, the way we talk to God is called prayer. Talk to God, ask him questions, share your frustration and pain with him. He is going to respond to you.

This article 5 Steps To Christian Growth is to ensure you benefit from the faith and not become a Church goer. There are other methods you can grow your Christian faith like going regularly to Church, but you want to create a connection to the one who is the founder and the owner of the Church (Jesus Christ.)

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The Truth About Blogging

It is easy to hear that people make money from blogging and then you think you can just jump in and you will start making money too.

Fact: you can make money blogging and even a living.

When you just start a blog, you will be introduced to something called blogtraffic, internet traffic, site traffic, website traffic, web traffic. Onlike the one we all normal hate, car traffic, road traffic, internet traffic is what you will need when it comes to blogging. I am not going to start teaching you here about how to blog and how to get blogtraffic. I want to encourage you and tell you some of the lies you will find when you start searching the web on how to generate traffic to your blog. It is a fustrating process because no one takes the time to tell the truth. I am not the best man but atleast I have all those who want to make money on the internet through blogging at heart. Read on as we disclose some of the many things you will be required by most bloggers you most do.

You have created your blog, now what? you want people to read what you are writing about. You will be introduced to what is called blog promotion, website promotion, site promotion. Many if not all will ask you to do the following.

Search engine optimization: This involves making your site searchable by search engines such as google, yahoo, bing... What you do here is create backlinks by commenting on other blogs, creating profiles on other websites. And you will have to also do what is known as keyword research. A keyword is something people will normally type on say google to get an information, news... say ''how to getblog traffic'' This is a very huge topic when it comes to blogging. There are websites, blogs, and even paid services just to cover this subject alone.

Social media marketing: Here you will have to create profiles on social media sites like facebook, stumbleupon, twitter, digg, delicious... and be active on them so you can get followers who will eventually visit your blog or website.

Article marketing: Here you are required to write articles and submit them to article directories like ezinearticles, articlebase... Most of the article directories will give you two links back to your blog. One in the article body and the other in your BIO.

Video marketing: This requires you to create short videos and submit them to videos sites like youtube...

Forum posting: Here you will have to create profiles on forums and get involved in asking and answering questions.

Joining Q&A sites: Like yahoo answer... Where you will be required to answer questions post by people. You also have the opportunity to ask your own questions.

These ones are definitely the basics and fundamnetal when it comes to blogging. What you will find is everyone trying to modify them and make them look their way.

So here are the things you will commonly find online. How I got 17k (17000) visitors in one day, How I increased a blog traffic by 30% in 2 months, How I incraesed my traffic by 114% in 2 weeks. All these are lies. What these bloggers are not telling you is that they have been blogging for a very long time before they finally found out what works and what doesn't.

For someone like me, I have done it all. I have been blogging for 4 years. Do you know how fustrating it is to do it all and yet not get the results you were expecting? This is why I decided to come up with this post.

Now bottom line peope are making a living blogging at the comfort of their homes and you can too I want to show you how.

First you will have to choose something you are passionate about. This is to ensure you love what you are doing and can write frequently on that topic. What you want to do is create a blog for people. If people love reading what you write, you will get all the hard work done by them for you. They will share your content and get you backlinks, ( ie they will optimize your site for search engines for you), they will fill your social networks, they will write articles for you ( some people just copy what others have written and place on their blog, I have been there) they will post videos for you by converting your articles into videos.

Then you will have to find blogs that write on a similar topic as you. Find ones that already have a fair amount of traffic. And comment regularly on them. The type of comment I mean here is not the normal ''thank you for sharing this post,'' ''great article.'' Read through the post and understand what the writer is trying to transpire and make a comment adding value to that post. You can even raise up an argument on something you disagree the writer wrote about. But be sure you know what you are doing. Because you will get alot of heat from those already reading that blog and from the writer himself. This is what you can get, you can get noticed by the writer and tap into his/her already loyal blog followers.

The truth about blogging, blogging is really a good way to add some decent money at home. It takes some time, patience and hardwork. Be stragegical and creative in your approach, love what you do, write interesting stuffs, make intelligent comments on other blogs, give the blog some time to age and get use to the internet. Blogging is not Asap ( you do not get it right here, right now.)

5 Shocking Things You Will Learn Growing As A Christian

We all at a point in time have tried to live a life we have no idea about. As humans we want to know and feel. Because we tried to live without knowing, it made most of us if not all of us go through pain. But later you will find out pain is a driving force of life. The come that time when life stop making sense, and then you need to make senseout of life. For those of you that will try to follow Christ (ie becoming Christians) then read on as this is for you...

1. Your Adversary: Most of the times, new Christians think they are up against the devil, but your biggest adversary is not the devil, it is fellow humans. Yes the devil is also an adversary, but you will only start getting attacked by the devil once you seal the deal with Jesus Christ. You are going to face what they call Earthly forces. Let me try to break this down for you. people are going to try to enslave you. You are going to be facing forces like, I am the best black man here, I am the best white man here, I am the most beautiful or most handsome here, I am the riches here, I am the most spiritual man here. But to all these, one thing was given to Christians, (the Bible.) Read your Bible well to find out the truth yourself. You can also gain some more understanding of the Bible from a daily devotional.

2. Better Knowledge Of The Bible: In the earlier times when God started to work with man, the people were not allowed to read the Bible for themselves. It was being done by special people called Priest. In this times we are allowed to read the Bible. You will find out you are going to have some challenges when it comes to your knowledge of the Bible. Instead of people to add up to what you already know, they will try to argue the little you know. Stay on tract, keep reading the Bible for yourself.

3. Better Christian: For those of you that come from a family with more than one child, then this will not be a new thing to you. You remember when you started fighting who is the better child to mom and dad, yes Christians also fight who is the better follower to Jesus Christ. Jesus said himself ''I have chosen you and not you chose me'' only Jesus Christ knows his true followers.

4. Wrong Leader: Now our days, people start churches for several reasons, some to make money, some thought they heard the voice of God... So you might fall in the hands of poor if not very poor church leaders. They have started a church, they don't know how to go forward, they don't know how to go backward, they don't know how to stop. They have created  a stagnant water favorable for Mosquitos. You might get bitten in such Churches, I mean pretty bad. Once you find out a particular Church is not focusing on preaching the love of Jesus Christ, ''LEAVE''

5. Wrong Fellow Believers: It is normal to think everyone in Church should be a good, God fearing person, But this is not exactly the case you will find in most if not every Church. Some people the only new thing they have in their hands is the Bible. Everyone in Church is not like that, find you one or two persons who know what it means to follow a friend who had to die on the Cross for his friends. The Bible said ''greater had no man love than this that a man will lay down his life for his friends.'' The Bible is refering to JesusChrist here.

Becoming a Christian is not all about the sweet Jesus loves you. You are going to find some challenges. If you loose a love one keep the faith, if you loose a job keep the faith, if you are moving back with your mom keep the faith. Don't forget to find some time to increase your faith with adaily devotional. People that writedaily devotionals, try to inspire and encourage you.

5 Things You Have Been Missing For Not Reading A Daily Devotional

Let's start by trying to do some break down, daily is rooted from the keyword, day to day. This is something you do every day. And devotinal is rooted from the keyword devotion, this is your dedication to what you do. So you can also split a daily devotional into, your day to day devotion to the Bible. A daily devotional doesn't necessarilly means your devotion to the word of God, it can also mean your devotion to your spouse. But the two words daily devotional is so much attached to the Bible that each time you mention a daily devotional almost everyone thinks about the Bible. Some people think it is boring, they may say ''I already have my Bible, why have someone explain the Bible to me.'' While most of those that write a real daily devotional are Bible Scolars, they have a better understanding of the Bible than you. For those of you who want to give yourself a chance to better understand the Bible, then read on as we explore 5 Things You Have Been missing For Not Reading A Daily Devotional.

1. Better Understanding Of The Bible: As mentioned earlier most people that come out with a daily devotional have a better understanding of the Bible. So by reading what they have to say about the Bible, gives you the opportunity to tap into what they have learnt by studying the Bible. This is also going to give you the added advantage of making your Bible reading easier.

2. Give The Bible The Feel Of Playing A Game: To be honest I have been a devoted Christian for 2 years now. Picking up my Bible say in the morning or in the evening has never been easy. But since I started reading a daily devotional, I found out that most of the writers pick verses from the Bible and explain the human relationship to that particular verse. So it's like killing two birds with one stone. I read the Bible and at thesame time get the human connnection to that scripture. That sounds like a fair game right!

3. Christian Growth: No one wants to remain a baby to be carried around by just everyone. Everyone wants to grow and gain independence. This is what a daily devotional is going to do for you when it comes to your Christian growth. It is going to explain your rights to you in relation to God. Yes thats right you are going to learn how to get backup from God.

4. Relationship to Fellow Humans: Jesus Christ before he left, gave us one commandment ''love your neighbor as I have loved you.'' Honestly speaking sometimes loving human beings could be as hard as receiving death on the cross. A good daily devotional writer focuses on trying to encourage and inspire you to keep the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ.

5. Assurance: Ever heard the song ''blessed assurance Jesus is mind, oh what a fortress of glory divine...'' Without sense, assurance, life is useless. Added to the fact that you get assurance that Jesus is yours, Jesus also have something better for you, the promise of a Heaven. A daily devotional is just going to try to increase that assurance. And give you more evidence of a heaven.

 There you have it, I can only write, you have the decession to take what you have read and put it into practice, or let it stick here on the internet where you found it. Hvea any comments on 5 Things You Have Been missing For Not Reading A Daily Devotional, then please do not hesitate to add that on the comment section below on this post.

5 Amazing Things You Can Find On A Daily Devotional

People spend more time these days reading Magazines, News Papers, Forbes, Gossips... as they do reading the very book of life (the Bible) . Some have taken the time to break Biblical scriptures in the form of a daily devotional for your ease. A daily devotional basically is an explanation of human connection to the Bible ( A book writen about God.) Practice makes perfect. As soon as you start, you will want to kick yourself for not starting earlier. These are the 5 things a good daily devotional should or most have.

1. Based Only On The Bible: Some you will find a single Bible scripture followed by an explanation of the human connection to that particular scripture, some there is a Bible scripture through out the daily devotional explaining each phrase or paragraph and yet in some you will find Bible reference. The point here is to understand what the writer is trying to explain to you about the Bible.

2. Does Not Contradict The Bible: You will find out that some of the  daily devotional on the internet are trying to contradict the Bible rather than try to explain it. Don't read those ones. Look for ones say two that are focused on explaining the Bible. What you want to understand is the Bible not the dailydevotional. So the daily devotional most be in accordance with the Bible.

3. Based On Life Issues: Because we are talking here about the Bible, a good daily devotional most not necessarily be talking about hell, heaven, death. It most be based on every day issues of life like marriages, finding a good partner, living a healthy life. As humans all we know is living, we don't know about heaven, hell, so we should be humble enough to talk about what we know rather than saying somethiung we have no idea about. A good daily devotional writer spends his time searching the Bible for issues related to life.

4. Answer Real Life Questions: We all came and met this world. The only way we can find out things for ourselves is to ask questions. A good daily devotional is not one that is just talking about the Bible but one that is finding out what people are in search for in the Bible and then explaining it to them.

5. Keeps it simple: A good dailydevotional does not go into complicated scriptural explanation but centers itself around the simplicity of the Bible. Some of you might say here ''what do you mean by keeps it simple, life is a complicated process.'' Yes, life is a complicated process thats why someone who wants to take the time to share the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ most keep it to the A, B, C's of English easy to read and understand.

There you have it. The 5 things a good daily devotional most have. There are more, maybe you want to add your own in the comment section. Feel free to do that.

Here is a list of the good ones I already found. You can read these ones or look for your own.

Our Daily Bread

My Utmost For His Highest

Joyce Meyer

10 Reason Why Everyone Should Read Daily Devotional.

Daily devotional in its simplest defination is an explanation of Biblical scriptures to apply in every day life. We all live in a world we met and most of the things we live on was told to us by a family member, friend, collique or a parent. But the comes that time we want to find out the truth ourself. This is where a daily devotional plays a very vital role. As you begin to grow up, life is gradually going to lead you to it's vanity and you will need to find out things like importantance, usage and value. Only the Bible have the information, for those of you that are already advanced, the revelation you will need to understand this three fundamentals of life. This is were a daily devotional comes in. Read on as we find out together why you should read a daily devotional.

1. What is life? This is a question we can write a whole article on. But lets deal with it in relation to a daily devotional. Life is a very difficult thing to define. But we can break it down to it's meaning. The meaning of life is also a very broad topic. But let's try to pick something out of it. Basically there are four stages in life, for the advanced you know that is the Earth number, childhood, Teenage days (boys and girls days) adulthood and old age. Each of this stages have it's accomplishments and it's regrets. For example childhood days you were loved by parents, but thought everybody was your father or mother. One thing you want to avoid in your life is the regret of old age. And one of the things daily devotional will try to teach you is to have a forfilling old age.

2. To What End? This is a question you will need to ask yourself only when you find out about what is called ''freedom.'' One day you will find out the people who hurt you were not even suppose to do that, and there will be this burning eage to revenge, you will have to ask yourself to what end, kill them then what. What daily devotional will do for you here is to confort you.

3. Purpose: This is only for those who have to deal with confusion. There comes that time in life when everything just seem thesame. You have gotten married then what, you have a house then what, you have a good job then what, this is when purpose plays a very important role. This things will only begin to make sense to you as you start to see others craving for these things, and then you can feel fortunate for having them. What daily devotional will do for you here is give you wisdom you feel fortunate when you need to and jet not criticise others for not having.

4. Happiness: Something everyone is looking for, something no one has ever been able to explain how it comes. This article is not going to pretend it will explain to you what happiness is all about, but atleast it will tell you how it comes. After you have been through pain and the comes this time you stop and return to your childhood days then you beginn to see the things people do, you beginn to laugh at it all. Daily devotional is going to teach you how to forgive the things some people did to you that was inhuman.

5. Peace: This is a greater form of happiness. Happiness can be damaged but peace is for everlasting. Happiness is human generated but peace is from the son of God himself (Jesus.) He said in the Bible ''the peace I give you supassing all human understanding.'' So to get this one. you will need to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, this is where daily devotional comes in play. It will teach you the simple steps of love which is the only commandment Jesus gave to become His follower.

6. Love: we can't talk about something like this without talking about something everyone is looking for. Knowingly or unknowingly. You might want to get love from a parent, spouse, friend or even a family member. Daily devotional is going to teach you how to be kind to people so they can like you and even love you in the case of a man and a woman.

7. Acceptance: this is a very important aspect of the human life. We all need people. No matter what you have you will still need people, no matter who you are you will still need people. You can't live alone. Daily devotional is going to teach you how to live with people so they accept you. If done well you will find out people only get active when you are present.

8. Marriage: There are more devorces as there are marriages. But each time two people meet to get married, they want it to last. But sometimes fall. A daily devotional can really help in situations like this. The Bible said wives be submissive to your husdands and husbands love your wife.

9. Parenting: Raising up children is not as easy as it sounds. People have been known of loosing their mind trying to raise up a child. But a clear explanation of the Bible through daily devotional will go along way to do alot of good. For example the Bible said ''Children are a heritage from the Lord.'' and there is also a commandment in the Bible binding parents and children ''Children obey your father and mother so that your days maybe long on earth.''

10. Heaven: Many people don't like hearing this. They say we just have earth, Heaven is not real. But you will see Jesus promised a place to all his followers, when He said ''in my fathers house there are many mansion.'' His fathers house happens to be called Heaven. Daily devotional is going to teach you how to get to Jesus's fathers house.

This is just a few of the many reasons why you will need to take some time every now and then if not every day to spend some time and read a daily devotional. Some will take you just 5 minutes to read through, some even have an audio record so you can just listen. Don't be lazy, get to work and make some meaning out of this thing called life.

18 Secrets Mentally Strong People Use

We all life in a World were each man most fight for himself to survive. Some learn how to fight, some go to church and other spiritual help and yet some learn the hidden secrets of the mind. If you want to learn the art of mentally strong people, then keep reading...

The avoid the following 13 things

1.    Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves.

 2. Give Away Their Power.

 3.    Shy Away from Change.

 4. Waste Energy on Things They Can’t Control. 

 5. Worry About Pleasing Others.

 6. Fear Taking Calculated Risks.

 8. Make the Same Mistakes Over and Over.

 9. Resent Other People’s Success.

 10. Give Up After Failure.

 11. Fear Alone Time.

 12. Feel the World Owes Them Anything.

 13. Expect Immediate Results.

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Breaking Bad Habits With Christ Daily Devotional

Don't set back home getting yourself depressed or blaming people of who did not take care of you or who hurt you. Get on your two feet and raise your heard high and try to do something for you.