THE POWER TO CHOOSE
Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve. . . . As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15)
Daily Devotional:
Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve. . . . As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15)
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. John 13:17
What happened to mankind emotionally as a result of the Fall? For one thing, we became fearful and anxious. One of the first emotions expressed by fallen humanity was fear (Genesis 3:10). Today fear is crippling our relationships and activities. Fear is a result of the Fall. If fear is controlling your life, then faith is not.
RAISING GREAT KIDS
Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose (Phil 2:2)
Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name (Psalm 100:4)
SOWING AND REAPING
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap (Galatians 6:7)
I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 1 John 2:14
KEEPING AN HONEST ACCOUNT
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us (1 John 1:8)
For we are not ignorant of his [Satan's] schemes (2 Corinthians 2:11).
We generally agree that Christians are vulnerable to the enemy's temptation, accusation and deception. But for some reason, we hesitate to admit that Christians can lose their freedom and can surrender to demonic influences. However, the evidence of Scripture is abundant and clear that believers who repeatedly succumb to Satan can come under bondage.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever (Hebrews 13:8)
The Lord knows how to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority (2 Peter 2:9,10).