by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 10, 2022 | desires, righteousness, sanctification
The old adage, “Let your conscience be your guide” is as good as worthless unless one’s spirit and soul are operating under the authority of the Holy Spirit. I think of the conscience, a part of the soul, as a neutral tool that is programmed by the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 23, 2022 | sanctification, service
“Genuine transformation has to be something that takes place WITHIN us. Our desire to transform societies, or cultures, at times,is far too grandiose because such visions (claiming divine sanction) may actually be projections of our own failed ability to be internally...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 10, 2022 | sanctification
Justification is a solitary covenant with God. Sanctification is a communal process of shared covenant to encourage, spur one another on, and live out the “one another’s” lived and taught by Jesus Christ. Justification occurs at a point in time,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 2, 2022 | sanctification
A friend posted that none of us are going to avoid the end of the world…. That reality she related to life being like a Catch-22 paradox. Well, living for God is a paradox ….To live for SELF is to die; to die to SELF is to live for God in Christ. When we do that we,...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 1, 2021 | God's will, sanctification
If satan had to ask to sift Peter, then he would have also had to ask permission of the sovereign God to sift Judas, as well, it seems. Peter endured the pain of his shame and lived to see himself restored when he encountered the Risen Christ. Judas, expecting a...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 31, 2021 | Bible Study, sanctification
Such a flawed instrument of your love and grace, Lord…….. like David, in 2 Samuel 6. There are so many things here to observe about David that are unbecoming…. After he defeated the Philistines, he went marching off “as to war” to regain God’s Ark in Judah but God...
