ISAIAH 55:8-9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. THEME OF THE DAY. NOT ACCORDING TO OUR PLANS. Today’s scripture is one of those portions easy to give as…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
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Proverbs 1:2-7 – To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth —
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
PROVERBS 21:2 – Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. THEME OF THE DAY. A MATTER OF THE HEART. In the daily warfare Christians fight, the temptations leveled against us by the devil, the world, and our own lusts aim to get us to disobey God; to willfully say “no” to His…
LUKE 10:38-42 – Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care…
1 TIMOTHY 4:12b – Set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. THEME OF THE DAY. THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF OBSERVATION. I fear we may not realize the importance of this enough. I don’t write that as a blast of criticism, but because I believe the devil, the world, and our flesh are hard…
PSALM 39:4 – “O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! THEME OF THE DAY. A MUCH NEEDED PRAYER. Today’s nugget is starting out with the words of our Lord Jesus and a parable. The parable is titled, “The Parable of the Rich Fool.” It is hard-hitting and…
GENESIS 1:26-27 – Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in…