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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.

Living Uncompromised Lives

DANIEL 6:10 – When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. THEME OF THE DAY. LIVING UNCOMPROMISED LIVES. Daniel is one of…

The Warfare In The Christian Life

PSALM 143:1-6 – Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you. For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those…

Learning A Life Of Obedience

PSALM 119:71 – It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. THEME OF THE DAY. LEARNING A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE. I want to start today’s nugget with a series of heart confessions. I would like to have a Christian life enjoying the Lord as much as a human being may this side of heaven. I…

Three Competing Loves

REVELATION 2:1–6 – “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “ ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil but have tested those who call themselves apostles and…

Lessons From The Deep

PSALM 130:1-6 – Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,…

Life’s Two Greatest Privileges

EZEKIEL 37:23 – They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. THEME OF THE DAY. LIFE’S TWO GREATEST PRIVILEGES. A very…