Mark DeJesus
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7 Things to Do When You Are Frustrated With Life
You are not living on planet Earth if you say you never get frustrated. Everyone faces this issue. Frustration is our modern way of communicating there has been a collision of what we expected and what is happening that do not match. Growing up, I dealt with frustration by going into pity. Frustrating circumstances communicated …
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10 Factors That Can Throw You Into Depression
As someone who has had to face depression and overcome it, I’ve also helped many press through the storms that depression can bring and develop a strategy for climbing to solid ground. Losing your emotional sense of well being can be an incredibly frightening and challenging experience. Millions are presented with this oppressive monster and …
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Why Is It So Hard to Forgive?
Forgiveness is one of the most foundational, yet often under-practiced habits in life. Without forgiveness, we’d never experience intimate relationship with God and healthy relationships with others. Our health and wholeness depend on our ability to forgive, yet when you look at the landscape of our world, it seems that people all around are manifesting the …
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9 Reasons You May Not Like What Jesus Would Do
Growing up, there was a popular book that people raved over and referenced often. It was called In His Steps, a book originally written in 1896, but one that helped to fuel a Christian phrase much later in the 1990s, causing people to say in many areas of their lives, “What would Jesus do?” Christians poured over …
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How to Break Free From a Critical Spirit
A critical spirit can be easy to see in others, yet operate undetected in ourselves. Everyone has to confront how they will deal with the temptations to live in a critical mindset. There can be nothing more draining than someone with a critical spirit, but when you’re used to feeding it, breaking free can be challenging. …
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3 Myths That Keep People From Their Breakthrough
Many times we need to make small tweaks to make big changes. The adjustment is almost always in our thinking. Our thoughts produce our beliefs and perspectives by which we view our life, struggles and future. In working with helping people for decades, I have noticed some things people believe that keep them trapped and limited …
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Will You Be an Overcomer?
The word overcomer is an end-time word, emphasized in the book of Revelation and some other passages in the New Testament. It carries a key description for what is needed to finish strong. Overcomers carry a victorious heart regardless of intense resistance that comes against them. In modern living, we are able to have many …
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11 Challenges in Living a Bitter-Free Life
When I wrote the book Bitter Free in 2015, it was not from a place of theory or book knowledge. Little did I know in 2004 when I went all in for personal healing and transformation, that I would be challenged to the core relationaly. When Jesus said in the last days hatred would increase, betrayal would …
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2 Reasons You May Not Be Seeing Fruit in Your Life
We are designed to produce fruit in our lives, manifesting the ways of God through changed lives and relationships that display His ways. Yet there is nothing more discouraging than feeling like your life is not producing any fruit. If we are honest, a lot of accusation and condemnation can pummel the mind, keeping us …
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8 Reasons Why Christians Get ‘Taken Out’
I watch it all the time. Well-meaning believers getting “taken out.” They served for 20 years and then all of a sudden they are checked out and want nothing to do with building the church or serving people anymore. They don’t even seem to carry a love for God. They wear that burned-out look in their …
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7 Reasons Our Resolutions Don’t Produce Transformation
It has been studied that 47 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. Only 8 percent have been found to actually achieve those resolutions. It seems today that people are very prone to talking about change, but not really stepping into it. We look at transformation sometimes as an “it would be nice” rather than an actual …
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Do You Want to Be Pastored or Pacified?
I have been concerned over the years that what is often looked at as pastoring is not always true pastoring. A pastor is a shepherd, who watches over and bring nurture to the life of the sheep. Jesus is the Good Shepherd, so He certainly is the greatest model of pastoring. I am not sure …
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3 Ways to Prepare For the Dark Days Ahead
In watching many believers, they don’t seem to be ready for what is coming. Now please understand, I am not a doom and gloom guy by any means. But I do recognize turbulence seems to be increasing in these days. Resistance to the Kingdom of God is intensifying, and it will not be long before being …