Encouragement

Encouragement

Encouragement

Encouragement

Encouragement

Devotional Thought

Why be nice to those that are not as well off as you? Proverbs 22: 22-23 has the answer.

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

²³ For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Just something Interesting I found reading this morning...

Encouragement

Encouragement

From the Devotions...

Proverbs 19

¹ Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

² Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

A good reminder to do right no matter what the "economist" says.

Encouragement

Encouragement

From the Devotions...

¹ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

² A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

³ A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Just a few verses that spoke to me. Remember to keep doing right!

Motivation

Well, has it?

Encouragement

Modivation

This is so true!

Motivation

Devotional Thought

Colossians 3

¹ If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

² Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

³ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

⁴ When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

⁶ For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

⁷ In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

⁸ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

¹¹ Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

I was reading these verses this morning and was thinking about how most people will freely acknowledge that the things listed in verses 5 and 8 are bad, yet do them all the time. The command here is to set my attentions, goals, and aspirations on higher things. The reward for doing what is commanded is oneness in Christ (verse 4 and 11). 

Christian Encouragement

Christian Encouragement

Principles From David's Life

2 Samuel 11:1-5, 12:7-15 
Principle illustrated: We need to be careful about what we watch. 
Summary: David was at his palace, taking life easy and was looking out over the city. He saw a lady bathing and desired her. We need to me careful about where we are and what we are looking at. David should have been more carful, instead he called for her to come to his palace. David fell to his lust because he did not control what he was watching.