How long will you be slack to go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? – Joshua 18:3, Amplified Bible The Bible is saturated with promises made by God to the saints. Like any good father, God wants to fulfill His promises because He wants to… Continue reading God isn’t real keen on slackness.
Category: Obedience
God will keep His promises. Just be patient.
…Surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be an inheritance to you and your children always, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God. – Joshua 14:9, Amplified Bible Patience is one of the hardest virtues to harvest. Like any good crop, we must wait for patience to grow until its… Continue reading God will keep His promises. Just be patient.
Give up that thing which God hates.
.…Achan…took some of the things devoted [for destruction]. And the anger of the Lord burned against Israel. – Joshua 7:1, Amplified Bible We all have something we love that God does not. At some point God will put His finger on that love and tell us to destroy it. When He does, what will we… Continue reading Give up that thing which God hates.
Flee your idols and return unto God.
And when…you…shall return to the Lord your God and obey His voice…with all your [mind and] heart and with all your being, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion upon you… – Deuteronomy 30:1-3, Amplified Bible When we choose to follow God, He will be with us in the midst… Continue reading Flee your idols and return unto God.
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. – Exodus 20:3
Your life shall hang in doubt before you; day and night you shall be worried… – Deuteronomy 28:66, Amplified Bible Sometimes our focus on the love of Christ blinds us to the fact that God is holy and that He will punish sin. Not only will He punish the sin of the lost; He will… Continue reading Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. – Exodus 20:3
Don’t wither on the vine.
And He said to it, No one ever again shall eat fruit from you… – Mark 11:14, Amplified Bible In Mark Chapter 11, Jesus made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Not long after arriving in the city, He became hungry. Seeing a fig tree covered with leaves, He walked over to it, expecting to pick… Continue reading Don’t wither on the vine.
Don’t be like Balaam and Lot.
Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. – Numbers 31:8, KJV Don’t think it can’t happen to you. In Numbers 22, Balak, king of Moab, made his first attempt to hire the prophet Balaam to curse the children of Israel. God communed with Balaam and told him specifically to reject the… Continue reading Don’t be like Balaam and Lot.
If you are fooled, it’s your fault.
…for the people could not have been deceived except by their own consent. – Jeremiah 14:16, Amplified Bible Nobody likes bad news. In the book of Jeremiah, there was a lot of bad news thrown at the nation of Israel, and Jeremiah had the terrible privilege of doing the throwing. In chapter 14, Jeremiah not… Continue reading If you are fooled, it’s your fault.
God will take optimism over pessimism any day.
But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it. – Numbers 14:24, Amplified Bible Have you ever wondered why the best motivational speakers and writers make so much money? It’s because they know… Continue reading God will take optimism over pessimism any day.
If you can figure out that you need God sooner rather than later, you can avoid a lot of anguish.
Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. – Jeremiah 29:13, Amplified Bible Think about those things in your life that you deem necessary. How much time and energy do you devote to them? Things like working… Continue reading If you can figure out that you need God sooner rather than later, you can avoid a lot of anguish.