ADD TO YOUR FAITH -- MEEKNESS 1 Peter 3:4 Also read 3:1-5 Meekness is an inward attitude. Gentleness is expressed in an outward action. So meekness does NOT mean gentleness because it is an inward attitude. It is one of the fruits of the Spirit spo
Read more…Jeremiah 2 (New International Version, ©2010) Jeremiah 2 Israel Forsakes God 1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you
Read more…Ecclesiastes 2 (New International Version, ©2010) Ecclesiastes 2 Pleasures Are Meaningless 1 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. 2 “Laughter,” I said, “is madn
Read more…Proverbs 2 Moral Benefits of Wisdom 1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— 3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4
Read more…Psalm 2 1 Why do the nations conspire[a] and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the LORD and against his anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.” 4 The
Read more…1. To be an agent of TESTING (Job 1 & 2; Luke 22:31-32) Satan was permitted to destroy Job's family, wealth and afflict him physically. Satan was permitted to sift Peter when Jesus was captured. 2. To be an agent of CHASTISEMENT (Isaiah 5 - The Pa
Read more…Promises for when you feel Lonely Hebr 13:5 (KJS) [Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Matt 28:20 (KJS) Teaching them to obse
Read more…Acts 1:8 "But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." One of our greatest fears in ou
Read more…Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all your heart; lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." There are several elements of importance in these verses. 1) "Trust in the LORD" not in
Read more…God delivers His people in mysteriously unique ways. The story of Esther demonstrated God's plan of deliverance through the trembling faith of a young Queen's petition. King Ahasuerus, often identified as King Xerxes, held a one hundred eighty-day fe
Read more…ADD TO YOUR FAITH -- GODLINESS The origin of the word in Greek is eusebeia. The definition is a personal attitude towards God with an action springing directly from this. The source of godliness comes from God. 2 Pet 1:3 says, “God has given unto
Read more…Jeremiah 1 (New International Version, ©2010) Jeremiah 1 1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. 2 The word of the LORD came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amo
Read more…Ecclesiastes 1 Everything Is Meaningless 1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” 3 What do people gain from all their labors at
Read more…Proverbs 1 (New International Version, ©2010) Proverbs 1 Purpose and Theme 1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: 2 for gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight; 3 for receiving instruction in prudent behav
Read more…Psalm 1 (New International Version, ©2010) Psalm 1 BOOK I Psalms 1–41 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the LOR
Read more…ADD TO YOUR FAITH -- PATIENCE Patience is a God given characteristic. It is restraint (limitation of liberty, control over emotions & impulses, to hold back, curb, repress) in the face of opposition or oppression. Often the word patience is transl
Read more…PROMISES OF GOD!!! Levi 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;41 And [that] I also have walked contrary un
Read more…GOD’S PRINCIPALS FOR SUCCESS John Wesley’s- Rule for Living: Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can At all the times you can To all the people you can As long as you can Theodore Roosevelt: Do what you can with wha
Read more…ADOPTION HUIOTHESIA (uoqesia) [Strong5206]-signifies the place and condition of a son given to one to whom it does not naturally belong. The word is used by the Apostle Paul only. In Roma 8:15 Roma 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondag
Read more…"AND GOD SAW ... IT WAS VERY GOOD." GENESIS 1:31 You are somebody, Before you were bom-God saw you. He knew the specific purpose you were designed to fulfill, so He provided the gifts you'd need and the environment required to put it all together.
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