Isa 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
Another thing we can keep is silent before God. There is s much noise today that most people don’t know what silence is. We have to have the TV on, the radio on in the car, the cd playing, the device in our ears, the phone on, noise all the […]
Isa 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Another thing we can keep is our mind stayed on the Lord. There are more things that trouble our minds today than could be printed on this page. Physical worries, financial worries, family problems, work problems, issues in a nation drowning in sin, on and on we can go. These things can do great harm to our emotional and mental state […]
Prov 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
I was preaching at a nursing home last evening and the message surrounded things one can keep. Speaking to a group of people who had lost so much, health, home, and so on, I was speaking about things we can keep. There are several things in the Bible identified as things we can keep, one of them being our heart. No individual, no […]
Prov 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
I am not sure how far medicine had progressed in Solomon’s day but even then they knew the importance of a sound heart. Heart trouble will stop the strongest of people and even as medicine has advanced to where it is now a person needs a sound heart to function. I wonder how many lives have been saved because of bypass surgeries, […]
Prov 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
2 Tim 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
To conclude a short study on instruction, many are the ones who sell out instruction today by selling out the Word of God. The Bible instructs us not to sell truth, wisdom, instruction and understanding. That is a command, Bible […]
Prov 1:1-5 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
While the wicked and foolish despise instruction, the wise […]
Ps 50:16-17 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
One thing you learn about instruction from the Bible is that the wicked hate it. (Prov 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.) Why so? Because it reveals our faults, errors, and […]
2 Tim 3:16-17 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
This illustration may apply to a man more than a woman but both will understand. Everything one purchases today comes with instructions, cameras, cell phones, toys that one must assemble, book shelves, appliances, everything comes with instruction. Often those instructions are […]
John 21:5-6 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
Apologies for missing yesterday as I had to leave the home in the very early house and did not get back home until later in the day.
John 21:3-5 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
Any life lived without Jesus Christ being first […]