That people may know skillful and godly Wisdom and instruction, discern and comprehend the words of understanding and insight. – Proverbs 1:2, Amplified Bible In his book Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, author Gary Klein detailed his findings after a decade-long study of how people make split-second decisions in high-pressure, high-stakes situations. Some… Continue reading Stay close to God. You’ll be smarter for it.
Category: Relating to God
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.
Hey, why not try God’s plan for marriage? I promise you, it’ll work better than yours.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; – Ephesians 5:22, 25, KJV It takes two to tango. If the tango is to be a work of art rather than a total wreck, both partners must… Continue reading Hey, why not try God’s plan for marriage? I promise you, it’ll work better than 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 God’s advice and man’s advice conflict, go with what God says.
To reveal (unveil, disclose) His Son within me so that I might proclaim Him among the Gentiles (the non-Jewish world) as the glad tidings (Gospel), immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood [did not consult or counsel with any frail human being or communicate with anyone]. – Galatians 1:16, Amplified Bible Sam is… Continue reading When God’s advice and man’s advice conflict, go with what God says.
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.
Just remember, when you need a hero, God is right here.
For by You I can run through a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. – Psalm 18:29, Amplified Bible Growing up I was fascinated with comic book heroes. Though I didn’t often read comic books, I watched more than my fair share of the television and movie versions of the… Continue reading Just remember, when you need a hero, God is right here.
Let’s take a walk with God.
But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God). – Galatians 5:16, Amplified Bible In his book My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers wrote, “There… Continue reading Let’s take a walk with God.
Even from the depths of sin, God can restore you and use you.
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. – Jonah 1:3, KJV Let’s… Continue reading Even from the depths of sin, God can restore you and use you.