2012-07-20T17:12:56-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/desires/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/controlling-or-being-controlled-6660 2012-07-20T17:12:56-05:00 Has your body been walking you? It's time to get control again. There's an important spiritual reason for passing up that food I don't need, the drink I should never use, the sexual flirtations I should avoid. My body uncontrolled will wage war against my soul! http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-great-moose-surprise-6446 2011-09-26T10:24:36-05:00 When you stop looking and stop insisting on the great desire of your life, you're most likely to find it...maybe right on your doorstep. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/the-leading-of-a-lifetime-6269 2011-01-21T11:23:50-05:00 Before you look ahead, look back at God's pattern in your life. His will is the natural next step of following Him daily up until now. He's leading you in a straight line. So, don't just grab the impulse of a moment. Look for the leading of a lifetime. http://truewoman.com/?id=1184 2010-09-01T12:02:15-05:00 "Wild Things" are intent on filling their homes and closets with designer-label fashion and all sorts of beautiful things—but if you’re smart, you’ll set your heart on getting so much more! http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/downloads/index.php?id=10413 2010-08-25T16:52:31-05:00 Is there a remedy for every unfulfilled longing? http://discipleshiptools.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=61408&columnid=4166 2009-10-23T16:07:11-05:00 Fruit of the Spirit, Part X To walk in the Spirit, we are called to not gratify the desires or as Paul puts it elsewhere, rid yourselves… put off…put on. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-fire-you-think-you-can-control-3521 2009-09-22T09:35:27-05:00 God has given us warning. This fire you think you can control will get out of control - and you will do more damage than you could ever have imagined. Your protection against the inferno is the commitment of Job 31:1 - "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully..." It's a choice. The payoff? Beauty instead of charred remains. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2037:4&version=NIV 2009-09-17T14:52:50-05:00 Many people spend their entire lives in pursuit of their desires. The key to happiness, however, is not the mindless pursuit of our desires, but learning to find true delight in God. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Personal-Power/Fool-s-Gold-5642 2008-08-29T09:53:54-05:00 It's so easy to buy the values of a world that measures worth by success, by how much of the glittery stuff you have - to spend major life-energy going after more house, more car, more wardrobe, more position, more prestige. It's gold - but it's fool's gold. Notice the words God uses to describe the pursuit of more: a trap, foolish desires, harmful desires, ruin and destruction, wandering from the faith, grief. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Life-That-Matters/Radio-Program/Getting-Iraq-Out-of-You-8025 2008-07-25T09:59:51-05:00 Iraq involves this insurgency that seems to keep a constant state of war going on. Well, there’s this revealing challenge about that going on inside us in the Bible. Here’s what it says, “Abstain from sinful desires which war against your soul” (1 Peter 2:11).