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Matthew 6:27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Have you noticed how worrying about things seems to make them worse?
Have you noticed how little you can do with worry?
God wants us to take action instead of worrying about things. God wants us to make a difference and not just talk about it.
God wants us to pray and not just say we will!
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James 1:4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
When we find ourselves in hard times, we can either collapse in a heap or we can get stronger.
God knows how much we can take, but He is not going to load us up until we are almost at breaking point... that is the world, not God!
God does not say He will keep us apart from trials, but He does say He will be with us through them... Count on God!
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2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Sometimes it is the problems we have in our lives which open up the vulnerabilities to allow God to work through us!
God knows we have problems and issues which will prevent us from doing everything correctly all the time – but he still asks us to step forward and try!
Trust a bit more in God’s abilities and His guidance to get things done right!
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Psalm 123:1 I lift up my eyes to you, to you who sit enthroned in heaven.
Where do you seek inspiration and guidance from? From books, from living life, from nature, from religion?
We need to look to the author of love, our Creator God – and He is not sitting here on earth in a big temple or on a cross!
God is in Heaven – separated from this world where sin cannot touch Him.
We need to seek Him where He is and not where we want Him to be!
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2 Samuel 8:15 David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people.
What do you think God is asking you to do? Do you try things out to see if they are good for God... or you?
God wants us to be like David and to be just and righteous with all people around us, especially those under our charge!
God asks us to be fair and just with everyone – not just the people we like or friends and family only... everyone!
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1 Thessalonians 2:5 You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed – God is our witness.
How do you tell people about God? Do you tell of love, joy and peace? Do you tell of fire and brimstone?
God wants us to tell people the truth, without sugar-coating it and without expanding on God’s Word to cover over our own failings.
Allow God to be the witness to people by simply telling people the truth as it comes from God’s Word!
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Colossians 4:1 Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
I know slave trading is banned in most countries now, but we still do work for others, and we have bosses and the like... This still applies in these cases!
I know when I lived in Africa, we did have local people who worked for us both in the house and in the garden – and the local people very quickly worked out who the best bosses to work for were!
We must treat the people in our care with great care – be it socially or work related!
We are all in God’s care and He treats us all equally...
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1 Thessalonians 1:7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
If people said you were a model citizen – who would that model be based on?
If we live for the world, we will reflect the world. If we live for something, we will become a reflection of that something!
Living for Christ and doing what He has taught us to do will mean we become a model of Christ – that way we can encourage the world with Hope!
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Mark 3:25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
When Jesus was confronted by people saying He had a devil in Him, He confronted them with simple logic!
The best teams in the world play together as a team! That is the essence of many sports – as long as you all play together as one, you are better than your opponents!
Jesus wanted all to know this is pertinent to us as humans; our soul, body and spirit need to work as one team to be good.
We cannot be like Christ unless we work as one – just as God works as one!
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Mark 5:17 Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.
Are you going to accept what Jesus does in your life – or will you rebel too?
When the people heard of the things Jesus had done, they became afraid they would lose their worldly possessions and begged Him to leave them alone!
Jesus actually does know what is best for us – but we will not always like the answer to our prayers...
When you pray, how precise are you?
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Psalm 132:10 For the sake of your servant David, do not reject your anointed one.
David lamented about how God should not ignore Him because he had done something wrong – he based his request on God’s unfailing love, promised through the scriptures.
This Psalm lifts up David in the hopes of reminding God of the good things David did, and not just the sins and failings!
God always looks at the bigger picture and will always be fair and just in all His dealings with us.
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Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures for ever.
God wants us to be with Him and has made a way which will stand the test of time and man!
When we look at nature around us, we see how beautiful things can be, but we also see how things wilt and die off over time.
When we look at mankind, we see similar things – people rising up to fame and fortune and then losing it all when they die.
God wants us to know His promises are alive forever and will stand the test of time.
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Luke 1:68 ‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them.
When God opened Zechariah’s mouth again, He made sure Zechariah would speak about what was to come.
He was chosen as a high priest but had to neglect many of his duties when he was mute. The Holy Spirit was going to make up for lost time!
The prophesies started flowing, starting with Jesus coming as the Messiah to redeem His chosen people – a promise made by God which was about to be fulfilled.
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Acts 13:4 The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
How good are you at listening to God? Do you wait to hear something verbally, do you wait for some miracle to happen?
God is not going to change the world just so you listen to Him! He will more likely end up changing you so the rest of the world will listen!
The disciples listened to what the Holy Spirit told them – we need to do the same in our lives and move forward knowing we are following God’s will.
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Psalm 107:1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures for ever.
One thing we can learn from reading our bibles is how much God has loved us from the very beginning.
We can see how much He has prepared for us and done for us by looking around us at the world we live in.
Don’t focus on what man has done, but what God has supplied for us to be able to accomplish so much!
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Mark 10:19 You know the commandments: “You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honour your father and mother.”
I think many of us could quote a few rules we should not do; and many could say they have not broken those rules – when they stick to the exact wording of the rules...
Sometimes we like to bend the rules a little so we can get away with doing something we should not be doing!
God is watching us every step of the way. He continues to try to encourage us to do what is righteous in His sight.
God wants us to follow His rules, not our loose interpretation of them!
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Mark 4:34 He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
Do you find it hard to understand God’s Word at times?
Christ wants us to continue learning from Him and trusting in Him for everything.
He has given us the Holy Spirit to guide us and explain things to us; we simply have to trust and listen to Him for everything!
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1 Samuel 17:28 When Eliab, David’s eldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and asked, ‘Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.’
How much opposition do you face when you stand up for God?
How many times have you given up because the opposition seems a bit much?
How many times have you looked back and wished you had stood up for God?
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1 Samuel 17:20 Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.
Can you imagine the scene as both sides were measuring up to each other, shouting out war cries and pumping themselves up...
This reminds me of my school days as we used to stand and shout out our war cries to support our rugby team as they faced other schools.
Having support you can hear or feel is important for our encouragement – listen and watch what God does behind the scenes!
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Ezekiel 18:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 ‘What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘“The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?
And looking at this from the other side of things... No matter what your parents or guardians do, it is not going to be held against you!
Well, in human terms, people may; but God will not judge us according to what other people do – no matter how close they are to us.
What we do ourselves will be what God uses for or against us – not what others do.
Be encouraged and follow righteousness.