If you don’t master something but let it master you, you will become a slave to it. Work is good for you but if you work in excess, it will destroy you. You can read Deuteronomy 5:12-15 for proof. We are instructed in Exodus 20:9-10 to rest on the Sabbath day for a special reason – we ‘need’ rest. Anybody who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves and will pay the consequences for their disobedience.
We are also instructed not…..
So many people sit on the fence today. They do not take a stance and are very easily swayed. They do not have any firm convictions and are governed by a behaviour of complacency; the ‘whatever!’ attitude. It is said that if you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.
A stern threat is issued to those who are lukewarm. Revelation 3:15-16 says, “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were…..
The price we pay for disobedience is very high; we could end up losing everything. Mark 8:36 says, “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” There are many great people, even in the Bible, who disobeyed God. They did a foolish or hasty act and paid greatly for it. Moses, a humble servant of God, was chosen to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Through the power of God, Moses…..
How many of us react when things go wrong with the typical, ‘Why, God?’ A friend sent me a YouTube clip on ‘Never say can’t’ that has inspired countless people. It was about a baby abandoned at the hospital because she was born without legs. The couple that rescued her gave her one instruction: ‘Never say can’t.’ She grew up strong and determined and became a successful acrobat.
Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves and asking God ‘why’, we should…..
Ever watched a kettle boiling water? The water gradually heats up and starts to boil and boil, bubbling forth, releasing vapour. Then the kettle safety switch stops the process just before that water can spill over. We are like that water in our Creator’s hand; strife and turmoil makes us heat up on the inside and we start to boil to a dangerously high temperature. But something amazing happens when we turn to God in prayer; He turns on the…..
It is easy to love someone who is loving but a completely different thing to love someone who is unlovely. It requires a special kind of love that looks beyond the acts of meanness and selfishness. The Bible speaks of different kinds of love; love for fellowman, love for one’s brother, love for your parents, love for your spouse, love for your child and love for God.
Our best example was Jesus Christ in the way He demonstrated love towards…..
We often say when someone is shown the door that he is given the sack. He is told to leave, as a gesture of not returning to that job or place. It is not a nice thing to be shown the door. However, when we are pointed to the door in the Biblical sense, it means the opposite. That is because the ways of man and the ways of God are completely opposite.
John 10:9 says of Jesus, “I am…..
One day a desperate wife asked her doctor what she should do with her ill tempered husband. The wise doctor told her to take a big sip of water when her husband came home from work and keep it in her mouth for as long as she could. She was to report back to the doctor after two weeks. To the wife’s surprise this remedy worked wonders. She reported to the doctor how amazing it was; her husband was not…..
When you have freedom, you also need responsibility to act on it. These are the flip sides of a coin; you can’t have the one without the other. If you win the lotto, you need to strategise how you are going to use that money. If you don’t, it will slip away like sea sand through your hands. With freedom comes power. When a person is free, he has the power and the authority to choose for himself. He is…..
But God is faithful and just, slow to anger and abounding in mercy and unfailing love. Check out Psalm 145:8; Psalm 86:5; Psalm 103:8.
When we face opposition and we don’t know who is right and who is wrong, who do we turn to? There is only one source that is just and faithful; it is the Sovereign Lord. We need to turn to Him for the answer and the way forward.
The arm of flesh may fail us but…..
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