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Psalm 3:4 I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.
One of the best things that you can learn about God is that He listens to your prayers and He answers them! So many people over so many years could tell you about the prayers that they personally have had answered, as can I.
But I don’t want to try and convince you; I would rather you lifted up your prayers earnestly to God and waited for Him to answer those personal requests.
God wants us all to know that He is always here for us and He will answer our requests in ways that will give Him the glory that answered prayers should. So don’t expect Him to make you the next Brad Pitt, just expect Him to give you what you actually need!
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Romans 7:19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing.
You are not alone! Yes we all do try to do what is right but end up doing things wrong and bringing sin back into our lives – that is just part of our sinful nature.
This does not mean that we have to sin all the time because we do have the choice not to sin; it’s just very hard to not sin… We may have the will to do all that is right but we still fall off the wagon and break rules.
Admit them to God. Don’t hide them under the carpet! Admit that we need help and that we need God to help us because we are all sinners. He wants to help!
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Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
Have you ever found that when you try to take control of things in your own way that things get out of control instead? That just seems to be part of our life sometimes!
God explains it clearly to us because instead of following Him we are trying to make our own minds up for what should be done. When we do that we are working for ourselves and not for God – these two ways are in conflict with each other.
We may think that doing things our own ways will allow us to do what we want, but God is still in control and wants us to give up on our selfish ways and allow Him to show us the right ways.
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Romans 13:14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
In order to try and escape from the way the world does things we have to take on new and fresh ideas. The best way to do that is to allow someone new into your life – Jesus Christ.
That means giving Him control of things in your life. Whilst that does seem like a frightening thing at first, to give someone else control of your life, it is also very comforting to know that someone else actually knows what they are doing!
Allowing Christ control will show us just how much He can do for us and how special we are to Him – more so that the things we desire of this world.
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Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Sometimes we get so caught up in the way that things should be done that we forget about how things should actually be done. What!?!?
Think about it. Sometimes we get caught up in doing things one way that we don’t want to change. We don’t think about whether it is right or correct, we just do it because we always have done it that way.
We need to let go of the ways that we are stuck in and allow God to guide us through His Word so that we can achieve more for Him and worry less about pleasing the world. God is important!
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Leviticus 19:18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord.
When someone does something against us we immediately want to retaliate in some way because we do not like being abused in any way. Far too often we also bear grudges against those people because we find it hard to forgive them – especially when they do not say sorry!
Can you now imagine how God feels with so many of us doing things against Him every second of every day?
God is willing to forgive and forget our sins if we are willing to come to Him and say we are sorry – but we do have to mean it!
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Luke 6:30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
One of the ways we can show love toward others is by sharing with them; but love should go a lot further than just sharing things with people.
Anyone can share things; but not everyone is willing to share everything. God reminds us that we need to share willingly and freely without requiring payback for everything because that is not sharing.
God wants us to share His Gospel as freely as we would gifts we wanted to give away to make others happy. It is the gospel that people need; the truth.
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Song of Solomon 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him I am lovesick!
Have you ever thought that you were so much in love that the world would end if you were not able to be with your love? It is that sort of feeling being talked about here but not between humans but between Christ and His church (us).
We seek Christ’s love and we do not always see it as we would like to, often thinking that Christ is showing love toward others before us. When Jesus rose from the grave He appeared to Mary first before the disciples.
God’s love for us is not in question; it is how we see that love that is in question here.
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Psalm 119:81 My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.
How long do you keep hoping in something before you give up and move on? If you do not last long then maybe you did not actually believe it was going to happen or maybe there was nothing to encourage your hope.
God has given us His Word, the Gospel, our bibles to make sure that our hope for Salvation is fed for as long as we seek it. Yes we do have to wait for an uncertain time. Yes we don’t know all the answers.
But God’s promise is that we do have salvation through Jesus Christ and we have seen that proof through what Jesus did for our sakes.
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Psalm 40:16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let such as love Your salvation say continually, “The Lord be magnified!”
If we are helped by someone then it is seemingly easy to tell others about what they have done for us or how much we think of them for helping us. It is also easier to trust them after that helping hand too.
When we put our faith in Christ and seek Him with our whole heart we will find that we are encouraged through what we do for God and are more able to rejoice in everything that comes our way.
When we realise just how much Christ has done for us on the cross then we are able to go that one step further and magnify His name above all else.
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1 Corinthians 10:22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
I think the one thing God hates more than anything else is when people will try to promote an idol into His position. How can we expect to take something we have made and promote it into the position of the God who has made us?
For us to be able to do that would mean that we think that we are in some way stronger or better than He is.
When we turn round to our parents and tell them that we are better than they are they have mixed feelings for us: despair that we should come to that point, disappointment that we should not respect them, and much more. How do you think God should feel?
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Job 38:28 Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Just as it is God that gives us the rain and the early morning dew, so God is the one who will shower other blessings on us when it is time to do so.
We cannot control the rain or any other season; we rely fully on God to deliver on time and is the required amount. When rain falls we can try to save it in dams and other reservoirs, but that rain is still dependent on God and nothing else.
Let us then rely more on God for His blessings and His advice because He has shown us how exacting His control on weather can be, but for good and bad…
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Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
What would you do if you quite literally had all the time in the world? No matter how long you think the world has been here or how long it took to make, God has always been around.
We find it hard to imagine having time to do absolutely everything we ever wanted to do because we are limited by time and we don’t know anything else; but God has no such limits because He made them for us!
Don’t worry that we are limited by time, just remember to include God in everything you do because He can always help.
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Isaiah 1:16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,
Have you ever tried to wash yourself after you have got into a big mess? It’s not always easy to wash off stuff that is designed to stain or to be permanent and if we have to be clean for an interview or work, then we may feel very dirty…
Sin is like that in our lives. It makes us feel very dirty; because we are. And when we try to clean ourselves we find that we get into more of a mess…
Christ can cleanse us totally if we come to Him and ask Him to. But first we need to come to Him…
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Amos 5:14 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
Have you ever noticed that when you start to misbehave your friends don’t always want to be around you? When you go off and do something stupid many of them will leave you and rather do something different…
Well don’t expect God to continually walk by your side if you are going to go off and break all of His rules all the time. God cannot abide sin. Why should He have to put up with any sin when Jesus has already paid for it on the cross?
Christ paid for you sin. We do not have to be bound by that sin. We do not have to go there. We do not have to… we have the choice…
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Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: afflicting the just and taking bribes; diverting the poor from justice at the gate.
No matter how you look at it, God is omniscient: at means that God knows everything. When we do bad things against others we are doing it in front of God because He knows, He sees and He hears everything.
We may overcharge people, take more than we should, say we can’t when we can, say no just to spite others; but we do this all with God watching. This is us sinning against God.
We need to admit that we do get things wrong, ask God to forgive us and then try to not go back to doing that again. That is God’s will for us.
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Proverbs 29:11 A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.
I often think of myself as a fool because I cannot keep a conversation going for too long; but then you get to meet some people who just have to get everything off their chest without thinking about the consequences of what they say!
There are times when we should talk about things and then there are times when we definitely do need to keep quiet. It is not all about us and what we think and want all the time. It is about how we interact with others and how we make them feel too.
It is no use being able to say all sorts of things if nothing that we say will build other people up – because we are then just breaking others down…
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Proverbs 28:16 A ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, But he who hates covetousness will prolong his days.
We may look at some of the world leaders and wonder how they can be so evil or such great oppressors; we then blame various things like their lack of judgment or greed. But what about us?
Each one of us are leaders in one way or another because others look at us and may want to copy what we do. That gives us responsibility. If we lack understanding, or show greed, or whatever, then we are giving that example to others to follow.
Instead of looking at the world leaders we don’t like, let us look at our own example toward others and improve that first of all.
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Proverbs 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
Does this seem to be the exact opposite of yesterday? Think it through. God wants us to not cause strife, but He also wants us to show people when they are in contempt of God’s Word.
The difference between these two verses is how they end. The first to not be like a fool and get drawn into strife, but this to stop a fool from burying themselves in misunderstandings.
Trying to understand when someone is actually wrong and when they are just telling lies can be difficult. Get to know them first and you will have a better understanding of how they live their lives.
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Proverbs 26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.
There are times when answering someone who is causing trouble will only lead to more trouble. Sometimes people are just out to cause trouble for the sake of it and the best way of diffusing that situation is to keep quiet or ignore them.
It is sometimes difficult to know when to answer and when to keep quiet, but if you will ask yourself what you think God would do in this instance before answering, you will have a better chance at doing the right thing!
God wants us to live peacefully with others, not to live under the threat of war all the time…