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Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.
Being happy and content makes a huge difference to our bodies and not just our outlook in life. A heart full of spiritual joy and peace raises our spirits, even invigorating our bodies and makes us ready to face things.
But when we are unhappy, down or feeling low, our bodies begin to suffer as well because we are not caring for them as we would normally.
Fill yourself with God. Fill yourself with His Word and fully depend on Him to bring your spirits up because the benefits are greater than you think!
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Luke 10:3 Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
Christ did not give instruction to His disciples and followers lightly. He chose His words carefully so that they would be prepared for what they would face.
If we are going to go on a long walk through the desert, then wearing a T-shirt and shorts would not be the best clothes and we would need to take plenty of water as well.
God wants us to know that we will face the world full on… and that may not be a pretty sight.
As each one of us presses on forward to do God’s work we do come up against many things which would break us unless we were first prepared to meet them! Continue to trust God…
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Romans 16:18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naïve people.
We are going to come against many who will say the name of Jesus, say good things, and yet go off and do things that are not biblical and do not bring glory to God.
These are the same people that Christ warned us about, the same people that we have been warned about for many generations; and yet we still choose to trust in them because it sounds so good!
God does not promise us a life without disruption, disappointment and failure; He teaches us to accept things and allow them to build us stronger for a life of serving Him.
Take what happens and glorify God with it!
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2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the snake’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
One of the things we always need to be aware of is that the evil one will use whatever means he can to reach into our lives to keep us away from God!
Adam and Eve knew no evil and were full of trust, so trusting the serpent was not a problem until they knew what they had done wrong; at that stage it was too late!
God does not want us to give in and follow the world because it is easier to do that, but to make a stand and hold fast to the Word of God!
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Matthew 10:16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
When Jesus was sending people out to spread the gospel, He made sure that everyone knew that it was not going to be an easy task; here He was reminding them that people out there are both wily and easily upset!
Speaking as a man, we tend to get things wrong many times by not being as observant as we could be and not taking notice of the subtle signs from others. Instead we blunder in instead of stepping carefully.
So next time you see us coming, remind us we need to be as harmless as doves sometimes!
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Ephesians 5:16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
One thing we have only got one shot at on earth is time. So far nobody has been able to invent a time machine where they will be able to go back and relive a certain time.
This is why we are warned that we have to be wise with our time and not to waste it. I felt a bit guilty about using so much time to study in the past, but now I see how valuable it is, I have no worries about spending time with God in His Word!
Time spent listening to God is time well spent. Time spent running after the world is time wasted when we look to the reward we have in heaven.
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Ephesians 6:13 Therefore put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Standing up for God has many facets that we often overlook. He continues to make sure that we have everything we need to stand up for Him, but whether we achieve that or not is our decision!
He has given us protection far beyond our thoughts and deeds and yet so few people pick up that protection and far less take it with!
God wants us to be fully protected against all evil and will make sure that we do know about the good things in this world. It is all that God supplies that we need to take with us and not what we create or gain!
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2 Corinthians 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
We do need to be reminded that the war that we fight against evil is a very real and dangerous war, but we also need to remember that it is a war not like any other we know!
Satan is not going to use bows and arrows or technological battles against us; he is going to use very sly and basic means to turn us away from God because he knows that is where our strength lies.
We need God and we need His might and power. Nothing else will do, so don’t go looking for earthly power!
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2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
There is a very big difference between the tools of war from this country (the UK) and the tools of war from a third world country from an age ago. We may have amazing technology to fight wars whereas they may have to rely on bows and arrows.
Just like there is that big difference between us and them, there is a big difference between how the world fights fights and how Christians should be fighting against evil.
God backs us every step of the way but he also expects us to stay within His rules when fighting on His side. Don’t leave God out of it, take Him with you!
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1 Timothy 1:18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
Paul’s letter to Timothy was uplifting and quite personal to start with but also reminded Timothy of all the things that had come before Him.
Paul was making sure that Timothy would not forget all that Christ had done before this moment so that he would not be discouraged! There is nothing like being told one thing as the truth only to find out a different truth later!
We do need God’s Word to encourage us every step of the way; without it we will not be able to make sure the truth survives – we are too weak to do that!
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1 Timothy 1:5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
None of us can claim to have a clean or pure heart! We all fail miserably when it comes down to righteousness in our hearts because of the sin in our life.
But when we spend time taking in God’s Word and allowing it to dwell there, we find that it teaches us how to change from the inside out. God continues to guide us through the Holy Spirit!
The more we apply the bible into our lives, the more we are able to live for Him. That conscience that He has embedded into our lives allows us to grow day by day.
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Colossians 3:14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
I can think of nothing greater to hold any relationship together than love; and that is exactly what Christ continues to remind us of too!
Love is not something that you can pretend about and is certainly not something you can hide. Christ allowed His love to flow out and bind us all together.
Christ wants us to allow our love to flow out to one another so that we can be bound as true Christian brothers and sisters. Without that real, true, abiding and humble love, we have nothing!
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Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
When we walk in love we walk in a very different way to our normal walk. I’m not talking about the physical walk, like some strange swagger of a gang member, but our walk through life!
When we live with Christ in our lives, our lives begin to have many things focused on what He wants in our lives and His goodness and mercy start to shine through us for others to see.
Christ loved us from the beginning and willingly gave up His own life so that we can get more still from Him! His love knows no bounds but continues to shine through each and every day!
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John 10:15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
A good shepherd will always get to know his sheep and make sure that they are always safe and sound. He will try to pre-empt things before they happen and get his sheep to fully trust in him.
Christ uses these words to relate to the people of this time; nowadays we don’t know too much about sheep so we don’t get the deeper meaning behind these words unless we study things through.
Our bibles are a treasure trove of wisdom and we need to take the words in until they encourage us to find out more about what is written down. God’s Word is there to teach us how to use His Word!
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Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
How many times have you thought about this verse and wondered why it could be said when we are also told that God chose the Israelites as His race?
In God’s eyes we are all human beings and we all deserve the same chance at getting to know Him; we are all given the same free gift of salvation and when it comes down to it, we are all given the same chance at being saved by Him!
Christ came to seek and to save the world and not to divide and conquer the world! Because we have all the same choice we are neither looked at as being slaves not at being free! We all belong to Him because He has bought us with His blood already!
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Psalm 22:30 Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord.
Sometimes we may think that there is nobody else trying to make sure that the gospel gets told to the next generation, but God has promised us that His story will never go untold.
No matter how much we turn our back on Him, He will always make sure that there is someone else ready to tell others about Christ!
God has been faithful to this promise from the beginning of time and will continue with this promise until it is time for us all to go back with Christ! Never give up telling someone else about God!
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Jeremiah 33:22 I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.
When God promised to give Abraham more descendants than he could count it was not a promise that Abraham would be able to see happen during his lifetime, but something that he would have to trust would come to pass.
God is not always going to deliver things to our front doors so that we see everything the way we want to; sometimes He delivers stuff that we only get to hear about well after we think it was overdue.
God knows the perfect time for things because He is not limited by time like we are. We need to rely fully on God and not impose our own limits on what He can do!
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Jeremiah 31:36 If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the Lord, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever.
Jeremiah had some horrible things to tell the people of Israel, but this is not one of them. This should give all people hope in our eternal and all powerful God!
Here God is reminding us that He is in control of everything both here on earth and in the heavens above! Not just the ordering of electrons in an atom but the very cosmos itself is being held together by God!
For as long as we can see we still have stars above we should have confidence that God’s promises continue to stand just as they were in the beginning! Awesome!
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Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
When we look at big strong buildings or things like the pyramids we may be forgiven for thinking that they will last forever, but when we look at how much things change over time we begin to realise that everything decays or grows old.
But when we look to God’s Word we see that it continues to stand unchanging and forever!
That is not to say that we read the same words as they did back when scribes were writing things down for king David, but rather that God’s Words that He has had committed to paper have remained available for us all throughout time.
God does not change! It is our perception that changes. Focus on God to see the Solid Rock!
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Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
If we start to think about what is actually sinful in our lives we may be in for a huge shock! All unrighteousness is sin! Everything that is contrary to the law of God is sin!
This gives us a considerable problem in that we cannot get over that barrier unless we have a Saviour who is able to lift us over it!
God is not just merciful and graceful, but merciful and graceful enough to overcome any sin that we have committed in our past – so long as we are willing to bring it before Him with all honesty!