Thank you for this. I needed this right now. I dont even have to think about it before I know my heart is evil and only the lord can change my intentions of everything I do. Lord please refine me and change me as only you can, change my heart and deepen my soul in connection to you. I pray you give me and anyone reading this the strength to endure temptation and pull up and out the evil lurking within them and hand it to the lord, who is the only one can defeat it. Thank you lord for working through Ashley; bless her. Amen.

been so convicted about consistently reading my bible. thank you ash !

That is such a great question to constantly ask yourself! It's so easy to be blinded by pride, it's in our fleshly nature. Something the Lord has convicted me to pray is Psalm 139:23-24 which says, "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the everlasting way." CSB

It reminds me of the verse ‘pray without ceasing’. We need to pray for our hearts intentions without ceasing! Thank you for yet another eye opening video ❤️

Right now, GOD has REALLY been getting me to read Psalms first thing in the morning. I've been doing it for almost one week already (one week on Sunday the 11th) best way to start any morning :)

Good food for thought! thank you for the redirect! Psalm 51:10 "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within in"

This is such a timely word for my heart. We see our true intentions and it feels gross, or at least for me. Realigning the heart love this so much!

This is so good and indeed so true! Every believer should check his/her heart, that includes me! Scripture is there to guide us to stay on the track!

True. The intention of our thoughts are not always goods. May God cleanse

Thank you for this video. I've always known God was not a fan of sinfulness but I didn't see it on the light of "grieving" especially with the example you gave. This really spoke to me.

Totally unrelated Ash, but I just want u to know that I never get tired of watching your opening billboard. Aside from being a wonderful woman of God, you are such a talented content creator. The intro is so so cool! May I know the title and artist who made the lofi music you used for it and where I can access the full version? You're really such a creative person - painting, video production, graphic design...(on top of being a gifted Bible teacher and artsy coffee lover😊 - your coffee videos are also topnotch btw). God bless you and Taylor❤ - you guys have a such a wonderful ministry on youtube!

Thank God for you’re wisdom! Lately i have been living in fear of hell and doing good deeds out of fear, but i wanna be a joyful servant of God, im usually stubborn and never really caught on to the idea of finding true joy in God but now i realize only God knows what i need for fulfillment so now when im reminded that evil breaks His heart it makes me want to do good for Him out of love, there is true freedom when u serve Him in love not fear.

This channel is so pure, such a blessing.

Ashley says she just rolled out of bed but she looks amazing!!! I love the morning chats. 💗💗

Amen🙏🏽 A very powerful question to ask myself daily: What Are The Intentions Of The Thoughts Of My Heart? I must listen to God's answer in order for me to be changed and refined. Thank you Ash for this thought provoking question ❤

sweet sweet ash , thank you for this very beautiful video ! spiritual warfare && just being in a rut recently has just drawn me away from Him so thank you for emphasizing that our quiet time doesn’t have to be complicated . . . it can look like just reading through a chapter ! thank you for that beautiful encouragement to my ♡ today . continue to lean into Him in ALL you do ! 🕊🤍

Thank you Ashley, you really spoke to my heart. ❤️

I love you guys so much. You truly are a blessing. You always inspire me, humble me. ❤

Thank you. ♥️

You really spoke to my soul. ✨

In my country now is night. 😀😀. Good night friends

These moments are so precious and wonderful. Always an eye opener to the scriptures. And so amazing that in the midst of your upcoming wedding, you still remember us. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Beautiful message ❤️ thank you! Totally enjoyed your morning hair and breath too. 🤣😊🥰

So good!

thank you for this!!

Thank you Ashley for this video!🤍

Blessings from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thanks for sharing this video. I really learned a lot.

Such a great reflection Ash! I will take this question into my own quiet times and meditate on it. Thank you so much!

God bless you my sister in Christ Good Morning

Amen,you did 👍 The saints of God have clean hands and good heart,and the commandments of God is pure enlightened the eyes

Nice thoughts, interesting subject. Thank you! 🙂

Thank you so much Ashley. I feel like God has talked to me through you. I really need to be renewed. Lately I have not been the child God expects me to be. Thank you God for this message. I pray to be renewed by the Holy Spirit, moulded and used amby God as an instrument of peace and love 🙏🏼

Good video - needed this today, Ashley. ❤️🇨🇦

amen, Ashley

This brought me to tears, needed to hear this today

Thank you Lord Jesus Christ. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. In Jesus name. Amen.

I take lots of notes

Thankyou for this video. Such an important question. Just sent it to my sisters to encurage them too

Happy Tuesday to you and your family Jesus loves you 🥰🎊

A few months ago I started reading the Bible and because I didn't have a fevorite passage I started from Genesis. Now I have read the story of Samson. If someone else wants to start the same project I suggest to skip some parts of Exodus and Deuteronomy because they repeat themselves. Aniway, your voice is very relaxing

Love you more Ashley ❤️❤️❤️

I love this today! Thank you Ashley. Psalm 19:14 has always been one of my favorite scriptures!

Just read the psalm you were talkng about. Definitelly a sign from the Lord.

Your the best, always look forward to a new vlog, I learn a lot with you, thank you Lord for her

I really appreciate the focus on intentions here, and this conversation reminds me of when we studied some key ideas from Augustine of Hippo in my college class last semester. Augustine proposed that evil is "non-being" since God is good and all things God creates are good. It is the harm or destruction of good, then, that is evil. The question becomes: what do we intend to do with God's gifts and creations? The people in Genesis 6 had evil intentions, meaning they did not intend to do anything good with what they had been given, whether that be using natural resources or using their own words. When we describe a noun as "evil," we usually mean that something good is being used to commit evil. Our good intentions can easily be tainted into committing evil. This is my understanding anyway :)

Thank you sister such an importaint message, yes God is so good, he even take pain on himself for our wrong doings and sins. Who of us has sacroficed our son or daughter in order to save others? Who comforted God when he saw his sons terrible suffer and he with a laud voice sayet "my God why have you forsake me" Who of us would sayet "take me to The cross", I pay The price. That Must have hurt God. But he is love John 3:16 his works is always for The best of everyone.

I'm gonna start my bible college class soon, I'll let you know when I start

Good morning

This was amazing begin I just got married this open my eyes

Good morning everyone.

pray about strugles, believe fully without a tiniest doubt that God will deliver you, be patient (not our way and timing), pray and do all In Christ's Name

Thanks pretty lady, this has been on my mind all week..going through Ephesians and realized lust of the flesh comes in many forms, not just that first thing we think of. Been asking God to show me my idols. God's will is to make a new man and the enemy may delay our sanctification process (it's been grieving me too) but God ultimately will have his way. Thank you for sharing and bringing up the prayer in Psalms!

Thank you dear Ashley❤ For reminding me to take a step back and think about the intensions of my heart. Honestly its so hard. Sin cycles keep going on and I want to break them, but sometimes my flesh is so strong. 😔 I feel so guilty for thinking about sin all the time, especially when I'm praying.. do you have some tips? Much love 💕

Personally i always try to keep my motives in check and try to do all for his glory, if its not dedicated unto him it entirely worthless and fleeting

i’ve started reading nkjv for the first time + really trying to read my bible and i get si frustrated i don’t understand what im reading despite asking God for the understanding

Hiiiii x

I am always thinking constantly how to help others, this is my most secret thoughts. I do nice things for people secretly. I do sin accidentally at times, but I am always planning how to help people. This verse may not apply to everyone. 📖⚘

I grieve when I contemplate having a conversation with God. I'm like, "oh, here goes talking to the wall, again." Another empty day, topped off with an empty prayer session, which is so boring that I begin to doze off. It's like clockwork, death, and taxes -- the only certainties in this life.

Pray for me...shelar

Hi Ashley --- A very important part of the bible is what Jesus says in Matthew 16:19 and many christians do not know what Jesus is talking about. Have you ever done a study on the Keys of the Kingdom and its relevance within the OT and the ancient kingdom in the line of David (Isaiah 22:22)? Being that you have studied the bible --- what is your interpretation of the keys of the kingdom? Blessings...

Hello my dear. I am from Iran ,I am Christian and I follow you in youtube so many times . These days my country is full of pain and wars because of human rights . If you follow NEWS you will see about Iran what is happening now. I ask you to make a video or pray in one video at least.pray that God comes and save Iran from this situation.I know many countries has the situation like Iran and my heart for all the world is freedom in Jesus. I live in greece which is far from Iran and I want the world understand and know what is happening in my country because the internet is off these days in my country . The more I can be voice of my country the more my country come closer to victory . I would ask you to help us Iran's voice goes everywhere . Please follow NEWS in order to understand what is happening . May our Lord who is bigger than anything listen to our prayers and make my country free.❤

"I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things."- Isaiah 45:7 Babysister without good and evil, choice cannot exist. Without choice, Love cannot exist. In context God created evil to create Love. Love is what this is all about. It greaves his heart because he is just like us. We are made in his image. We all have a free will to choose. The good news is The Gospel. Once you trust the Lord with all your heart, he will direct your paths. Proverbs 3-5 Once you Love the Lord with all your heart; he will teach you how to treat your neighbor. Matthew 22:32 You must let go of the steering wheel. Salvation is so simple. The adversary tries to confuse the message making it complicated. We will not be perfect but we acknowledge we cannot save ourselves. Would I do this all over again, including all the pain for Love? Yes I would.

What would be your response to someone whose reasons for not believing in God go like this: I don't believe in a supernatural God, but the concept of God is not at all supernatural. The supernatural idea is pushed so hard by denominations, that people say it is the only concept. And since it is obviously impossible for any sane scientifically minded person to actually believe in supernatural nonsense, it is then easy to get people to reject the sensible non-supernatural concept of God. The concept of God is simply the limiting conception of the behavior of complex systems over time, it is the end point of evolution. It makes teleology because it is defined to be a teleology. It is intelligent, because the system computes, and computes more and more, going to infinity in the future. It is desired because you don't want your works to be wiped out, and it wins, because people who don't believe in God are missing the most important teleological property of complex behavior, including the most complex behavior of all, human societies and histories. One way to state the concept of God is Gandhi's: bad things win a battle, good things win a war. This concept is important in game theory. The basic idea is Hofstadter's superrationality--- the solution to the prisoner's dilemma, and the first mathematically precise form of the Golden Rule. When you are playing a symmetric prisoner's dilemma, the concept of "rational play" is ambiguous, and the correct concept is the one that maximizes utility after taking into account that the play should have one correct answer, before calculating your payoff. This is explained in many places under "superrationality", but it appears in print for the first time in 1981, in a popular article in Scientific American written by Hofstadter, and it does not appear anywhere before, and it is ignored for over a decade afterward. You asked for a personal answer, so here it is. At age 7, I was put in a religious school, because my parents moved from Israel to the US, and they wanted me to remember Hebrew. After a little while, I was refusing to drive on Sabbath and eat non-Kosher food, so they took me out of this school and put me in a normal school at around age 9. This school had a massive library, and the moment I read the books on biology and evolution I became an atheist, around age 10. But I remember telling myself at some point, at around this age, that as an atheist, I needed to understand the following things: 1. Physics 2. Biology 3. Ethics The physics is to understand the origin of the universe, the biology is to understand the origin of life, and the ethics is to decide how to behave without God's guidance. These are the 3 areas that religion fills up with supernatural answers. The physics was so interesting, that I read about mostly this for a long time, and the biology business, I thought Darwin answered completely satisfactorily back then, I didn't see the missing pieces until much much later. I was just interested in origin of life. Ultimately, 1 has nothing to do with God, but the proper answers to 2 and 3 involve teleological concepts that are parallel to the older notions of God, and simply extend them and make the ideas mathematically precise. So once I understood 2 and 3 satisfactorily from the atheist perspective, I couldn't really say I was an atheist anymore, because the answer to 3 is similar enough to God (although not supernatural) that I could see that the religious people weren't really saying nonsense, but an incomplete picture from a different perspective of the non-superstitious answer. I was introduced to Kantian style rational ethics from schoolmates in Israel who were interested in philosophy (we moved bcck to Israel when I was 11 or so). We moved back to the US when I was 15. I was introduced to the prisoner's dilemma in sophomore year of high school, by a conservative History teacher. He had us play a four-person version of the prisoner's dillema in class, in four teams of two players against three other teams of two players, and everyone always promised to cooperate when discussing the problem, but when it came time to play, all the teams defected, including my own team! This was a very informative lesson, it was probably the best thing in high school. This was a precise distillation and idealization of the problem of ethics, so I thought about it sometimes. I read the communist manifesto, and learned about Marxist things, like the anti-colonial struggles and feminism, although all these books were holdovers from the 1970s in the libraries. I figured out superrationality in 1989, while I was bagging groceries, in high school. I then looked around for who had said this, and foud nobody said this, at least not anywhere in the game theory literature. I stumbled on Hofstadter's stuff in Metamagical Themas a year or two later, by accident, and of course, credited him from this point on (he also analyzed other games, like the Platonia dilemma--- this is important because it is a fixed symmetric determnistic game where the best superrational play is probablistic). Hofstadters definition defines superrational play, and the moment you figure this out, all the older mathematically imprecise notions of ethics, like Kant's stuff, is out the window. So I was sure superrationality solves 3 in a completely satisfying way. It is a compelling argument for how to behave which does not involve God, it is a precise form of Kant, and I could prove that it reduces to utilitarianism in circumstances which are symmetric. But there was still an issue: it is only mathematically precise for symmetric games, the idea doesn't extend to asymmetric games. This bothered me throughout the 90s. Around 2000, I figured out 2, as explained in answers to origin of life questions here, and switched fields from physics to biology (the physicists answered 1 more or less completely and persuasively as far as I could see). The important notion was computation, which everyone in my generation knew like the back of their hands, because we grew up with the computer revolution. The complex cellular automata originate life spontaneously and without any external intervention, but they change the picture of evolution somewhat, to a more intelligent and computing thing, which has some teleology. But then, you could see how to generalize the superrational idea to asymmetric games. The way to do this is simply to postulate that all games have a unique superrational answer, and this answer, by Von-Neumann consistency, has a utility function. If you personify the utility function as an agent, you find that you are acting superrationally only if you are acting in accordance with the will of an invisible agent that isn't playing the game at all, an infinitely wise abstract agent that does or doesn't exist (this is a meaningless question in positivism), but which you should think about if you want to behave ideally superrationally. This idea was so parallel to God, that I was grappling with whether I was still an atheist. Then I read Sade, and from Sade's work, I had an epiphane regarding the nature of the monotheistic conception of God. It wasn't at all supernatural, it was just a picture of the perfect superrational strategy written in a mathematically illiterate way. This explained all the religious literature, and made it clear in the same way that calculus makes Newtonian mechanics clear, so I knew it was the main idea. But I could no longer say I was an atheist, because the resolution to the problem of ethics is a notion of God which is not supernatural, but parallel to the older notions. The superrational thing, even in the symmetric case, is close enough that it gets you to behave indistinguishably from a religious person in nearly all circumstances, you just add a little bit of Rawlsianism to symmetrize any asymmetric game. This is not exactly the same as full-blown self-consistent superrationality with a complete utility function for all asymmetric circumstances, but it's close enough to compel you to behave as selflessly as Tutu or Mandela, at least if you are brave enough to manage it, which I usually wasn't.

Why would God (Allah) regret even though he’s all knowing and knows what’s going to happen in the future? Question to the Christians…

Gave this channel a try but it’s not for me so I unsubscribed because the girl on this channel doesn’t really give me any answers about the questions that I have. Haven’t read a Bible since 2013. and truthfully I don’t want to fear Gods wrath or be afraid to ask the questions I have with fear of offending anybody.

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Good morning