April 7, 2019

Mature

You decide what is most important to you. The choice is entirely yours.

Read: James 1:3-4

For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.


October 17, 2018

Understanding

If you are impatient about something there is something you don’t understand. Pray for understanding and peace.

Read: Proverbs 14:29-30

People with understanding control their anger;
a hot temper shows great foolishness.

30 A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body;
jealousy is like cancer in the bones.


October 11, 2018

Effort

Put in a little extra effort and win.

Read: I Corinthians 9:24

Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!​


September 27, 2018

Understanding

If you don’t understand, ask for understanding.

Read: Proverbs 14:29

People with understanding control their anger;
a hot temper shows great foolishness.​


August 25, 2018

Truth

Truth stands on its own. We must let go of our ideas and change our thoughts in order to accept the truth.

Read: John 12:46

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes and trusts in Me [as Savior—all those who anchor their hope in Me and rely on the truth of My message] will not continue to live in darkness.


August 24, 2018

When Looking

Start on the inside, then out.

Read: 1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.​


August 22, 2018

Doer

It’s good to listen to the Word but you must also be a doer of the Word.

Read: James 1:22

But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth.


August 11, 2018

For Your Benefit

Listen and obey those that God has put over you. It’s for your own benefit.

Read: Hebrews 13:17

17 Obey your spiritual leaders, and do what they say. Their work is to watch over your souls, and they are accountable to God. Give them reason to do this with joy and not with sorrow. That would certainly not be for your benefit


August 10, 2018

Looks

Don’t dwell on the way things look. Looks can be deceiving.

Read: John 7:24

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.


July 29, 2018

Sin

Sin may be an everyday occurrence for those who don’t know Him but it is a disgrace for those who do know Him.

Read: Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness [moral and spiritual integrity and virtuous character] exalts a nation,
But sin is a disgrace to any people.