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Do You Know What <strong>Your</strong> Real Problem Is?<br />
you talk about God or the church that is different<br />
from the one you live with the other 167 hours of<br />
the week when you face your problems outside<br />
the church service.<br />
It's like your "Christian" face is wearing a<br />
mask. You've learned to conceal what you really<br />
think and feel, what you hurt over, are frustrated<br />
by, the fears that haunt you, the pain you bear,<br />
the feeling that things are not getting better and<br />
probably won't. Satan slips in again with his<br />
insinuations. "Why doesn't the sermon get down<br />
to where you live in the nitty-gritty of your dayby-day<br />
needs? The singing lifted you up, but why<br />
are you so down again? The prayers at church<br />
inspired you that better things are coming, but<br />
where are they? When are they going to get here?<br />
You heard all this the last time you were at<br />
church and the times before that. But nothing is<br />
happening. Why? Why? Why?" You cry, "Why<br />
doesn't the devil leave me alone?"<br />
You open the Bible to do what a good<br />
Christian should: read and study and let God<br />
speak to you from His Holy Word. You read, but<br />
you wonder what it means. You read where it all<br />
happened back there thousands of years ago to<br />
people you question as being a real person like<br />
yourself.<br />
Did they go through the things the Bible says<br />
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