Guard and keep [with the greatest care] the precious and excellently adapted [Truth] which has been entrusted [to you], by the [help of the] Holy Spirit Who makes His home in us. – 2 Timothy 1:14, Amplified Bible (AMP) The path to living the victorious Christian life is simple: keep God’s Word. Though simple, it’s never easy, for… Continue reading This is your charge from God.
Category: Temptation
Are you happy with your mud hole?
9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 And [then dare to] come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My Name, and say, [By the discharge of this religious formality] we are set free!—only… Continue reading Are you happy with your mud hole?
True grit is the determining factor of success.
Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man who is patient under trial and stands up under temptation, for when he has stood the test and been approved, he will receive [the victor’s] crown of life which God has promised to those who love Him. – James 1:12, Amplified Bible (AMP) Angela Lee Duckworth holds… Continue reading True grit is the determining factor of success.
God loves math, and so should you.
The sum of Your word is truth [the total of the full meaning of all Your individual precepts]; and every one of Your righteous decrees endures forever. – Psalm 119:160, Amplified Bible (AMP) One of Satan’s greatest weapons is taking a portion of God’s Word out of context and twisting it in order to deceive. His… Continue reading God loves math, and so should you.
Willful ignorance is no excuse before God.
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not… Continue reading Willful ignorance is no excuse before God.
He Who keeps you will not slumber.
He will not allow your foot to slip or to be moved; He Who keeps you will not slumber. – Psalm 121:3, Amplified Bible (AMP) When children get scared, there’s nothing more comforting to them than the reassuring embrace of a parent. Knowing that mom or dad are there to protect them, they can release… Continue reading He Who keeps you will not slumber.
It’ll never happen to me.
And you said, I shall be the mistress forever… – Isaiah 47:7, Amplified Bible (AMP) According to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch.com: Amy Wilson, 46, could easily have been voted the least likely person to get into trouble. But the Noblesville, Ind. resident spent two years at the Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana after embezzling… Continue reading It’ll never happen to me.
Be sure to apply what you have learned.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. – James 1:22, King James Version (KJV) A decision is worthless unless it is followed by consistent action. Just ask the millions of people around the world who sincerely committed to New Years resolutions earlier this year, only to fail… Continue reading Be sure to apply what you have learned.
Are you burning incense to the brazen serpent?
He removed the high places, broke the images, cut down the Asherim, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until then the Israelites had burned incense to it; but he called it Nehushtan [a bronze trifle]. – 2 Kings 18:4, Amplified Bible (AMP) In 2 Kings 18, King Hezekiah instituted… Continue reading Are you burning incense to the brazen serpent?
Looking for help in all the wrong places
For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had defeated him, for he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. – 2 Chronicles 28:23, Amplified Bible (AMP) I am… Continue reading Looking for help in all the wrong places