Advancing on the Way of Faith with Hadassah Treu
This category contains reflections on the way of faith, truth and love. Here you can find articles on faith and its practical implications. For example: our relationship with God, living by faith, prayer, forgiveness, renewing of the mind. Also articles about, rest, joy, satisfaction, disappointment and many others. The reflections are combination of Biblical teaching and personal insights.
God’s anti-stress therapy is God’s rest. In the previous post, we looked at God’s rest and the main way of entering and staying in it. One of the most important keys to applying this anti-stress therapy is the exercise of self-control in our thinking. Continue reading “Keys to Apply God’s Anti-stress Therapy”
Perhaps the greatest plague affecting our mental and physical well-being is daily stress. The human body is designed to handle periods of stress followed by a period of restoration to the normal state. It is problematic to live in a state of chronic anxiety even when there is no external stress factor. What is God’s anti-stress therapy to overcome stress? Continue reading “The Best Anti-stress Therapy”
Do our fears and worries have an end? When does this end come? The answer points to our hopes and goals for the future. It also affects our concept of happiness and its achievability. There are three main worldviews answering this question. Continue reading “The End of Our Fears – 3 Concepts. Which One Is Yours?”
The overcoming of destructive mindsets and perceptions is completely possible. The starting point is the identification of trauma that has not been properly addressed and healed. In this way, it has served as an entry point for misconceptions and personality distortions.
Continue reading “Overcoming Destructive Mindsets – 5 Biblical Ways”
Our thoughts determine our lifestyle. Many people suffer from destructive thinking. That’s why the Bible emphasized renewing the mind, the re-programming of our thinking very strongly. It is the primary way of recovery, healing, and a lifestyle filled with satisfaction and joy. The renewal of the mind has two components.
Are you a victim or a victor? Many people struggle with the victim mentality. How we think defines how we live. We can not control what happens to us, but we can exercise self-control in our thinking. Continue reading “A Victim or a Victor? Breaking Free from the Victim Mentality”
To follow the high calling means to follow Jesus, that is, to follow and recognize His leadership and supreme authority. To know Him, to know His teaching, that is, the truth of the word of God and, above all, to apply this truth to our lives, to be doers, not just listeners. Not just fans but followers. But how does that work?
Everyone is called by God to follow His plan for one’s life. This includes restoring our true identity and position in Christ, living as co-workers of God, and sharing the glory of God. Although we are justified by faith, there is a certain price of following. Continue reading “The Price of Following the High Calling”
What is the heavenly prize that apostle Paul talks about in his Letter to the Philippians? And to what high calling is God calling us through Jesus Christ? The high calling is the complete restoration and functioning of God’s original, initial design for each person, mankind, and the creation as a whole.
Faith, working through love, is the way of finding and understanding our purpose, destiny, and mission, and that we are created for. And once we have discovered and understood it, again by faith we dare to move on. Continue reading “How to Have an Active Faith”