Kamran Yaraei's Blog

God Alone Grants Repentance God alone has the power to grant, and when He does, no one can stop Him. Ask Him to open your eyes to see that He is the One who can grant you anything you need. The Bible says that God is the One who grants repentance. with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth (II Tim othy 2:25). Sometimes we get angry at people who are ignorant and don’t want to repent, but how can they repent if it was not granted to them by the Lord? Jesus also spoke of this in the Book of John: And He said, this is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted him [unless he is enabled to do so] by the Father (John 6:65 A MP). May the Lord grant us love, passion, forgiveness toward each other, humility, repentance, the fruit of His Spirit, brotherly love, health, wealth, submission to the cross, longsuffering, wisdom, a heart after His heart, authority, discernment, and patience...

We don’t have to understand God in order to trust Him. Instead, we must trust God in order to understand Him. Trust birthed out of our own understanding can be shaken. Don’t waste your life trying to gain understanding in order to trust God. Spend your life trusting God in all situations so that you may understand many things. The foundation of our understanding should be our trust toward the Lord. Always seek understanding and wisdom, but remember to use your unshakable trust in the Lord as a foundation. Help us beautiful Jesus to trust You more through Your Holy Spirit. We love You.

Disappointment When we put our hope in people or in anything other than the Lord, we set ourselves up for great disappointments. Disappointment will usually cause anger, frustration, depression, and even hopelessness. We are as guilty as those who disappoint us because we have put our hope in them. We are called to love others, not put our hope in them. Just imagine if the Lord had put His hope in Adam and Eve; it would have been a disaster. The greater the hope that we put in people, the greater our disappointment will be. I have disappointed myself many times because I put my hope in my strength, gifting, and abilities. It is very important to let the Lord be our hope and nothing else. We will face disappointment all of our lives until we learn to put our hope in the Lord. Let us collect our hope from different places and give it all to Him. When we stop putting our hope in people or things, then the Lord will use them to bless us, but He should be our source of hope, not any other....

Admit Wrongdoing and Ask Forgiveness When we admit our wrongdoing, we take away all Satan’s tools and weapons to accuse us. Admit your wrongdoing and ask for forgiveness as soon as possible, then talk about the sin and how to avoid it. There is something so powerful about asking for forgiveness. Be quick to admit wrongdoing in your marriage, and be quick to ask for forgiveness. Help others to repent quickly as well by creating an opportunity for them to repent and ask for forgiveness. As Christians, we tell people about the importance of forgiveness. What about the importance of admitting our wrongdoing? Evangelism is helping others to repent. Sometimes people need help to repent. Let us help each other be quick to repent. May the Lord give us the ability to ask for forgiveness and to help others be quick to ask for forgiveness.

We Live Out What We Rehearse If you rehearse something in your mind, it will play out in your mind. If you rehearse something in your heart, it will play out in your heart. We think about many things every day. We think about our spouses, family members, friends, coworkers, finances, futures, desires, jobs, difficulties, the things we want to do, the things we don’t want to do, etc. When we begin to think about and rehearse a situation, we must choose the place of rehearsal. We can rehearse in our minds or we can rehearse in our hearts. Perhaps if we always think of someone only in our minds, when we are around that person our hearts will not be involved. When we think of someone in our hearts, our hearts will be engaged when we are around them. Why should we use our hearts all the time? The answer is simple: Our minds can only love conditionally, but our hearts can love unconditionally. We cannot truly love with our minds. If we do, it will be a conditional love. Only our hearts are ...

Gather Love in Your Heart (Part 1) And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these (Mark 12:30-31 AMP). I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another (John 13:34 AMP). Why did Jesus tell us to love like this? Here are a few things I’ve found to be true of love: Love is the highest wealth of all wealth. Love is the only wealth that we can take to heaven. Love is the highest power of all powers. Love is the ultimate medicine. Love is the only answer to all problems. Love will unveil the beauty of everything, even the beauty of this fallen world....

Homework for Our Hearts In my school days, I never liked to do my homework. How about you? As we all know, homework will usually get students ready for the test. Are our school days over as adults? No, life is a school and we are all in it together. Do we face tests even after we graduate from school and college? Yes, life is a “school of love” and is filled with tests every single day. When there is a test there will always be homework, and as we all know, there will be consequences for not doing our homework. Where do we do our homework? The homework will take place in our hearts. As Jesus mentioned, everything starts in our hearts. “but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28). Adultery, like any sinful action, will start in our hearts. Sometimes I find myself doing acts of kindness and being polite toward people. Now I see that acts of kindness should not be empty actions, they should come...