People who have no regard or respect for your loving care of them must be cut off. Protect yourself.
Read: Matthew 7:6
Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you.
A lot will come and go and many things will change but God’s Word will never change.
Read: Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
Do not settle for less. Be all that God called you to be!!
Read: Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Train yourselves to live and walk in the Spirit. It takes discipline to deny the flesh.
Read: Galatians 5:16-17
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Always stay on guard and resist temptation. Temptation can be subtle.
Read: Matthew 26:41
“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
When you give, the needs of people are met. Give all glory to God.
Read: 2 Corinthians 9:10-15
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. 13 Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
You alone should decide what to give and to whom.
Read: 2 Corinthians 9:6-7
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
You can trust God’s faithfulness.
Read: Acts 17:27
God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
Drop what you get from the world, don’t delay, run to God.
Read: James 4:8
Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty, is divided between God and the world.
Truthfully call on God and He is there.
Read: Psalm 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.