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09/30/10

Those Cravings

Do not love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For everything in the world -- the cravings of sinful man,

the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does –

Daily Devotion

10/19/11

Did you know you have a calling on you life?

 

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you  to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Ephesians 4:1

04/6/11

I will walk in my house with blameless heart.
I will set before my eyes no vile thing.
Psalm 101:2-3

I will walk in my house with blameless heart.
I will set before my eyes no vile thing.
Psalm 101:2-3

03/30/11

My children often put a great deal of emphasis on their outward behavior.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
You clean the outside of the cup and dish,
but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Blind Pharisee!  First clean the inside of the cup and dish,

03/23/11

If you are in a position where you report to someone, I want to encourage you in your righteousness today.

Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything,
to try to please them, not to talk back to them,
and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted,

03/16/11

Come away with me!

Then, because so many people were coming and going
that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them,
"Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

03/10/11

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and
puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew
and beat against that house; yet it did not fall,

03/3/11

For you have spent enough time in the past
doing what pagans choose to do --

For you have spent enough time in the past
doing what pagans choose to do --
living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness,
orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 
They think it strange that you do not plunge with them

02/24/11

Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."
1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be misled:  "Bad company corrupts good character."
1 Corinthians 15:33

My Dear Child,

02/17/11

My Dear Child,
Is there a situation in your life right now that is somewhat troubling, and you do not know how it will turn out?

But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.