LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES
Do not hold back discipline from the child (Proverbs 23:13).
Daily Devotional:
Do not hold back discipline from the child (Proverbs 23:13).
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance (James 1:2,3)
There certainly are a lot of distractions, diversions, disappointments, trials, temptations and traumas, which come along to disrupt the process of becoming the person God wants you to be. Every day you struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil, each of which are opposed to your success at being God's person.
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you (John 14:27).
Help me, O LORD my God. With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the LORD (Psalm 109:26,30)
Nancy was a college student with an inability to express the anger and resentment she felt. "My roommate gets to the point sometimes where she just explodes emotionally to let off steam. I have deep feelings too, but I'm not sure that a Christian is supposed to let off steam."
The Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1)
Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God (James 1:19,20)
Wives, be subject to your husbands. Husbands love your wives. Fathers, do not exasperate your children (Colossians 3:18-21)
God works in our lives primarily through committed relationships. Your family is the primary laboratory for your character development. This is precisely the order of Scripture: Establish your identity in Christ, then focus on living out who you are at home. Notice the order in Colossians 3:10-25.
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long (Psalm 32:3 NIV)
Suppression of emotions is a conscious denial of feelings (repression is an unconscious denial). Those who suppress their emotions ignore their feelings and choose not to deal with them. Suppression is an unhealthy response to your emotions.
When you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition, as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words (Matthew 6:7)
Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life (Proverbs 4:23)