Have you ever heard a sermon or teaching and immediately felt annoyed, or maybe like this was definitely NOT a message for you? I have. Now, there have been times, when the message was just downright nutty. However, that is rare. Most of the time (especially since I am VERY careful whom I allow to speak into my life), it is right on the money. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the meek and poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. - Proverbs 16:18-19 (amplified) Pride is destructive to the person who holds the pride. Pride prevents us from hearing God's Truth and learning what He wants us to learn. Pride is a terrible disease of the heart that many of us have and are too prideful to even see it! LOL! What exactly is pride? Note: I am only focusing on the selfish side of pride for this study. Taking pride in your work and how you maintain your home are not what I am talking about here. We are only … [Read more...]
The Daily – Do you Want to be Wise??
I am always asking God for wisdom and search often for verses on the topic. One theme that seems to come up time and time again is fear and fool. Fear of the Lord brings wisdom. Lack of fear makes me a fool. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. - Proverbs 1:7 (KJV) What exactly does this mean? Am I supposed to tremble in the corner somewhere waiting for God to strike me with a lighting bolt? Certainly not. The fear that I find time and time again is a reverence, respect, piety. Fear comes from the Hebrew word (yir'ah ) And means.. reverence: A feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration. The outward manifestation of this feeling: to pay reverence. Longtime readers know that I always like to look at the flip side (antonyms) of words as well. So, when we are not feeling an attitude of deep respect and manifesting this feeling with obedient living, we are... Showing... disdain, disregard, disrespect, … [Read more...]
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