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Psalm 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the Lord.
What use is a priest or church leader who gets up and just says a bunch of words and calls it a prayer?
What use is it if we read something out of a book and don’t mean it in our hearts?
God wants this relationship between Him and us to be open and Honest. This means talking to Him from the heart and not from a page!
How do you show God you mean what you say in your prayers?
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Psalm 63:4 Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.
Loving God is not just about saying you love Him or about loving Him when everything goes your way; loving God is a whole hearted, full time and total commitment between you and God.
There is no way God is going to back down. Why should you?
Love is a commitment that requires more than just a bunch of flowers now and again or a letter or card. Love requires a whole lot more.
Being willing to protect your love against others and against the evil around us should be the norm.
Prayer when expressed properly and with your whole heart shows real love.
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Solomon 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—For your love is better than wine.
How do we measure love? Love is one of those things we don’t really have a good measure for so we tend to try and relate it to the physical ways in which we show love.
I know I have had many a time in my life when I just wanted a kiss or even a hug to let me know someone else’s feelings; but the physical is not always the truth!
Being in love is far better than any quick hit we can get from most other things and expressed here in the beginning of this wonderful love story.
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Psalm 119:53 Indignation has taken hold of me Because of the wicked, who forsake Your law.
How do you feel when you see someone doing something evil? I know we have many films and stuff on show about people doing evil things, but actually seeing someone in person doing something evil is still not nice to see!
The psalmist write here of the horror and trembling they felt just by seeing what others were getting up to.
The people knew the law as God has described it, and yet they chose to do something wrong instead.
Choose to be different today and make someone feel good by doing good instead of bad.
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Luke 19:41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,
When Jesus came to look over Jerusalem He stopped and wept at the sight. Not at the sight of a built up city but at the knowledge of all the evil and sin the city was hiding.
We cannot see sin and evil, but we can see the results of them. We cannot see good either, but again we see the results of it.
Jesus had special knowledge of what was going on because He is the Son of God and knew these things.
We need to depend on seeing the results of things; so set an example and allow people to see the results of God in your life!
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Genesis 6:6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
How long do you put up with something before you say “stop” or back off?
No matter how much we think we can put up with bad things there is always a limit and we either break or we blow up against those things.
God may well be willing to forgive almost anything, but if we continue to be in His face with all the bad stuff in our lives, we should expect Him to reach a point where He will stop what we are doing!
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Ecclesiastes 7:29 Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought out many schemes.
God did make us upright and truthful in the beginning, but through our own thoughts, desires and devices we have become evil and corrupt.
In the beginning man had no problem talking directly with God because he had done nothing wrong; but as soon as man went his own way God had to stop associating with Him.
God cannot abide evil, but he is still willing to listen to us to see what we have to say for ourselves. God is Just.
Be honest and talk openly to Him today!
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Psalm 99:8 You answered them, O Lord our God; You were to them God-Who-Forgives, Though You took vengeance on their deeds.
Praying to God is so important but something too many of us either take for granted or just never get round to it each day!
We read about so many cases in our Bibles where God forgave the people after they did terrible things; everyday people through to kings and prophets!
We do also see many times where the people had to put up with the consequences of their actions, some blaming God and others wondering why…
God is just. We need to stay in constant contact with Him so we can know His will in our lives.
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Matthew 12:50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.
There is no way we can be so obedient and righteous as to be able to follow the will of God, but having the heart to want to do so is what God is looking for.
It is God in Heaven who is watching and allowing us to learn all we need to know about Him. He sent Jesus down to us to be the interaction we needed to fully learn His will in our lives.
God looks on us as brothers and sisters because we are willing to try and do His will every day of our lives.
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John 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments.
What would you do just because you love someone that much?
I know this is a subjective question but we do often go out of our way to do things for people we love.
God has told us to love our neighbours. Have you ever tried to link these two verses together? How far should we be going to help others out?
We should set an example this year by following our Lord’s example and doing acts of kindness toward those around us; just because they are His.
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John 15:14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
What would you be willing to do for a friend? Would you be willing to break the law? Would it be right to break the law for a friend?
Friendship is a very complex thing which drives us to do things we may not have thought about before; but true friendship should never require us to do anything wrong.
God’s request is quite simple as Jesus told us: Obey my law.
God has been trying to get His people to obey His law for a long time because He knows it is the best thing for us all. Are you willing to obey?
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Proverbs 18:24 A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
If you want to be able to have friends, then you have to show you are friendly; sound so basic when said like that but a fact many people do forget about.
We cannot expect to have many friends around us just because we think we deserve it. Friends come to those who are friendly to them.
How would you class your relationship with Christ? Would you say you have been friendly toward Him or have you let Him down a bit lately?
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Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perishes, And no man takes it to heart; Merciful men are taken away, While no one considers That the righteous is taken away from evil.
I think we can all admit to looking at our lives an wondering if we are actually safe from eternal death. Yes I know I have eternal life and I know nothing can take that away from me… but I still have moments of anxiousness.
We all have to die at some stage because our bodies are mortal and God has deemed it so. We struggle when we see good people die from terrible things because that makes us wonder why.
Just maybe God has taken them home because He knows what is ahead in that person’s life and wants them to not go through it…
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Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of one’s birth;
When do you aim at getting a good name? Do you wait until the day before you die and then try and make it all good?
Most of us do not get to know the day we are going to die. Most of us do not get to any point where we can make it all good overnight!
Making a good name for yourself is hard work and you will need a lot of help along the way.
God wants each of us to not just know Him better but to be able to have a good relationship with Him which is infectious and we want to spread to those around us. Share it today!
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Proverbs 22:1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favour rather than silver and gold.
What makes an entrepreneur successful? Is it the money backing them, the money they are willing to spend, the time and effort they are willing to spend or just what they can get out of life?
Don’t get caught up in trying to work the answer out because there is no simple answer. Each of us will work differently to reach our goals in life.
God would like us to work honestly and hard to achieve what we can rather than cheating people out of as much as possible to make the biggest profit.
Jesus was not rich in monetary terms, but He certainly was rich in God’s eyes!
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Job 34:19 Yet He is not partial to princes, Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; For they are all the work of His hands.
One of the things I find hardest to accept is that Christ loves each one of us no matter what station we are at in this world.
I struggle to accept some people in my life just because they are either so obnoxious or they are from a totally different lifestyle to me; but God does not have that problem!
God can use each one of us no matter where we are and no matter where we stand in society. I love the fact that He uses former criminals to spread His honest and abiding word!
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Psalm 49:2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
When you want to go and tell people about God, who do you go to? Friends, relatives, strangers, rich people, poor people?
We seem to be more comfortable talking to people who fit into a stereotype at times than talking to a wide range of people. Why so?
God did not tell us to go forward and spread the Gospel message with those we feel comfortable with; he said go out into all the world!
Let go of the stereotypical listener you have in your mind and reach out to the person next to you instead!
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Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are a vapour, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogether lighter than vapour.
We like to think we have classes of people from the working classes through to the nobility; but in fact each one of us is a person.
Many people will not give down-and-out people a second thought or will totally ignore beggars on the street just because they look different.
We are so fickle in our world and yet Christ is able to look through that all and judge us according to what we are inside rather than the outward appearance.
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Job 11:11 For He knows deceitful men; He sees wickedness also. Will He not then consider it?
We cannot hide things from God because He knows and sees all. That may well be a frightening thought for many people but don’t think about the consequences of your actions; rather think about how God feels about what He can see.
Think about how you feel when you see someone doing something wrong. Think about how you feel when you see someone steal something. Think about how you feel when you see someone break the rules.
Now imagine if that person is your best friend. That is getting close to how God feels.
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Psalm 94:11 The Lord knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
Our deep thoughts about wisdom, theology, philosophy and other intellectually focused things are but nothing compared to God’s thoughts for us.
We may like to think our deep musings of all thinks like that are highly sought after or deeper and more meaningful than others people, but they are nothing compared to God’s thoughts.
We like to think of ourselves as highly intellectual because God said we should be overseers of the land; we may be in comparison to the other mammals and animals, but not in comparison to God.
And yet God’s thoughts for us are deeper than this all!