I will set no base or wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of them who turn aside [from the right path]; it shall not grasp hold of me. A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know no evil person or thing. – Psalm 101:3-4, Amplified Bible I learned a phrase… Continue reading GIGO: Applies to computers; applies to you.
Category: Purity
It’s not character; it’s communication.
Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];” – 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Amplified Bible Poor Aaron! How easily he, though second in command in Israel, was led astray rather than leading the way! In Exodus 32 he was quickly persuaded by the multitude to make the golden calf. In Numbers 12 he was easily persuaded by his… Continue reading It’s not character; it’s communication.
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.
God died because of you. But you are worth it!
The man shall kill the young bull before The Lord… – Leviticus 1:5, Amplified Bible Sometimes it’s hard to grasp the gravity of our sin because we don’t have to stare the consequences of our sin in the face. In order to make atonement for sin, an Old Testament believer had to bring an animal,… Continue reading God died because of you. But you are worth it!
It’s easy to stick with God on the mountaintop. Can you stick with Him in the valley?
And Peter remembered Jesus’ words, when He had said, Before a single rooster crows, you will deny and disown Me three times. And he went outside and wept bitterly. – Matthew 26:75, Amplified Bible We are no better than Peter. When things are going well and there’s no threat to our person, we are just… Continue reading It’s easy to stick with God on the mountaintop. Can you stick with Him in the valley?
You’ve betrayed God before, and you will do so again. But He still loves you.
Judas, the betrayer, said, Surely it is not I, is it, Master? He said to him, You have stated [the fact]. – Matthew 26:25, Amplified Bible We are no better than Judas. At the last supper, Judas Iscariot looked Jesus in the eyes and asked, as if he didn’t know, whether or not it was… Continue reading You’ve betrayed God before, and you will do so again. But He still loves you.
Work on that memory of yours.
And the Lord said to Moses, Thus shall you say to the Israelites, You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven. Exodus 20:22, Amplified Bible By the time we read Exodus Chapter 20, God had devastated Egypt with miraculous plagues, parted the Red Sea in a show of supernatural power,… Continue reading Work on that memory of yours.
Sometimes, it’s better for you not to get what you want.
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. – Matthew 20:20, KJV In Matthew 20:20-24, the mother of the sons of Zebedee asked Jesus to make her sons His right and left hand men in His Kingdom. The motivation behind her request… Continue reading Sometimes, it’s better for you not to get what you want.
When the world is crumbling around you, make sure your house is built upon a firm foundation: God.
Whosoever cometh to me…is like a man which built an house…and laid the foundation on a rock…- Luke 6:47-48, KJV We all want to be respected. Perhaps one of the reasons why we do is because the respect of others is not easy to come by. You have to earn respect, and when you have… Continue reading When the world is crumbling around you, make sure your house is built upon a firm foundation: God.
Even when you mess up, God wants to – and still can – use you.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. – Exodus 2:12, KJV We all mess us. It’s in our nature. We are going to sin either by accident or on purpose. Sometimes our sins will be… Continue reading Even when you mess up, God wants to – and still can – use you.