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Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
When you look at other people what do you see? If you see someone who is at peace with their life, someone who always smiles, someone who is willing to love others, someone who puts up with grief from others, someone who only dishes out kindness and someone who always seems to be there; then I put it to you that you are looking at a Christian who is depending on God.
This is the sort of life that God would want each of us to have and one that He promotes through other Christians.
God has created this world the way that it is, but He still loves us enough to want us to live a beautiful life with Him.
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1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
We always find it easier to make friends with someone if they are first willing to be friends with us or are friendly toward us. But if someone has an issue with us or is just plain unfriendly, making friends can be very hard.
God has loved us from the beginning and has continued to show us that love throughout time. We often turn away from Him and wonder why we get into trouble; but because He loves us He wants us to straighten our lives out and will encourage us to do so.
People may come into our lives and show us love and friendship without asking for anything in return. It just may be that God has brought them to you to allow you to know His ways and His love.
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Psalm 116:1 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy.
Some people ask me why I do the things that I do for God. They ask me why I do things without question. They ask me why I do things where others will not. This verse sums up why I do things for God.
I work for God because He listens to me, answers me and does so much more for me. I do things for God to show Him that I love Him for everything He does for me.
I honour my Father in heaven for all that He does for me. I honour Him through working for and with Him. Are you willing to step forward with us?
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Proverbs 15:5 A fool despises his father’s instruction, but he who receives correction is prudent.
Ok, so we are not all perfect – but I guess you may have worked that one out already, especially when you look at me! Seriously though, we do make mistakes and we do have to take time out to say we are sorry.
But if we spurn the people who point out our mistakes or want to show us the right way of doing things, we are saying to them that we don’t care about doing things right or fixing mistakes – basically we are telling them that we are stupid because we don’t want to learn!
God gave us the bible so that we could spot our mistakes. Once we do that and move on, we will be able to do a whole lot more rather than breaking things continually…
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Exodus 20:12 Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
How often do you try find out the top ten? Doesn’t matter what in, but we always want to know what the top ten items are in one way or another. We often look on the Ten Commandments as the top ten in that they are the ones we should focus on; but God wants us to follow His Word, not just the top ten list.
God does not just want us to tick the boxes but actually do what His Word says. So when it says that we should honour our parents, He means it! We need to respect them because they are the ones who have done so much for us… but there will also be times when we all mess up so we may have to say we are sorry and start again…
God wants us to realise we can say sorry to Him as well…
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Matthew 19:19 ‘Honour your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’
Besides the obvious “don’t kill, don’t cheat, don’t steal and don’t lie” Christ wants us to remember that we do need to think of others, not just our parents because other people need our help and support as well. There are so many people who do need help that it may be hard for us to see who we should help first… Well, start with your neighbours…
You will be surprised at how many people will accept help if you offer it; and then you may be equally surprised when others turn round and offer you help when they see you needing it.
Don’t wait to see if someone is “worthy” of being helped. Help them and show them that they are…
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2 Peter 2:18 For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
One of the hardest things to accept in life is teachers who will tell you a bunch of lies instead of the truth. These are the people who should be giving you the truth so that you can learn; but there are those few that do not.
I am not talking of teachers in school but the people around you who will talk as if they know so much but tell you lies instead. Just when we escape from those people around us who we recognise as evil or bad company, we are at our most vulnerable and we may well believe a lie just because it sounds good enough.
Don’t give in because something sounds good – find out the truth because that is what God wants you to have.
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1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
No matter how good you think you are, if you continue to watch bad things, mix with bad people and listen to bad people, then you will start to become used to those bad things, allowing them into your life.
Before long you may well be doing the same things as them, those very things that may have turned you off in the beginning now become part of your life, part of your being.
God wants us to be separate from these characters so that we will not be corrupted – it is much easier to give in to them that to train them in what they should be doing!
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Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.
If you are going to hang around with people who don’t care about themselves or their surroundings then you will pretty soon give in and become more like them.
But if you are willing to stand up against the rot and try to learn from those around you, then you will become wiser. The more you learn the more you will be able to help yourself and those around you. The more you learn from those around you the more you will be able to do!
But if you give in a just sit around waiting for things to fall apart around you, then that is all you will get…
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Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.
How easy do you find it to listen to others? It is amazing how easy we pick up on other peoples conversations even when we should not be listening to them. Because we listen we then begin to think about what they are saying and before long we then think that maybe we should give it a try…
It is so easy to get involved in what others are saying and doing without realising that it is happening. Once we start to get on that road we find it harder to stop – just like stepping on to an escalator, once you are on it you move with it without doing anything.
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Psalm 59:7 See what they spew from their mouths – the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, ‘Who can hear us?’
How many times do you just say what you want and don’t care who hears it? Or how many times do you say something about someone just because they cannot hear you at the time?
We are all guilty of doing things like this at some time or another, but what we do forget is that God will always hear you! No matter how far we think we are away from people, God is always close by us.
And it is not just the things we say out loud but those thoughts we have and those things that we do. We may not think we are affecting others, but we always do!
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Psalm 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
When was the last time you had to trust someone in a very serious situation? It is not always easy nor comfortable to place your faith and trust in someone else, especially when you cannot see them; but God wants us to know that if we do exactly that, He will be there holding on to us tighter than we can imagine.
Believing God’s Word is one thing, having faith to trust in it entirely is a big step forward to having faith in God. He has shown us through many examples in the bible that we can trust Him wholly, but it is still our choice that we have to make.
Walking on ice may not be much fun unless we have someone holding us tight…
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Psalm 119:11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
When you want to be able to please someone you try to do things that will make them happy or try to do what they say. Making your parents happy can sometimes be as simple as listening to what they say and obeying that.
God is no different than parents in that way. He would love us to listen to what He says and then to go out and do that. He is not going to be whispering that in our ears each day so we need to read our bibles to find out what He would like us to do.
He has given all of us the same instruction manual so that we can all get things right… if we listen…
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1 John 2:14 I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is 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 wicked one.
Whether you are a grown up and a child you can know God. As an adult you want to be able to care for your children. If you have known God for a long time then you may be called an adult in Christ or God, whereas you may be called a child in God if you have not known Him for long. If you are an adult in God it will seem natural for you to want to care for people who have not known God for long.
God wants us to be a family in God so that we will love each other and care for each other like families should.
If your family seems to have something missing, just maybe they are missing God out…
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1 Timothy 6:9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
It is not the act of having a lot of money that will cause as many problems as the act of wanting to have so much money. We need to be happy with what God allows into our lives rather than running after things which we don’t actually need.
God will allow us to have what we actually need, but it is the desire to get more that drive us over the edge. That lust for money and other things will make us do some pretty stupid things in order to get our own way causing problems as we go along.
If we get trapped into that way of life we will never be able to focus on God because our focus will always be on things instead.
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Matthew 6:27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
We all like to think that we are in control of our lives, and we are… but that control is only as far as we can think and do. Our appearance does change when we worry because others can see that we are worried, but just by worrying or thinking we will not be able to change how tall we are or other things like that.
God has made us who we are and He made us this way for a purpose. We should not be worrying about how we are but rather concentrating on what we can do for Him. If we rely on God in the right way, we can depend on Him for everything and will no longer need to worry about those things in life. It is a hard step of faith to take, but very rewarding…
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1 Timothy 1:19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.
One of the questions we often get asked is “why did it all go pear shaped for me?” Often we do have to go over what we have done and look at whether we may have been responsible for things…
It is not always someone else’s fault. It is not always possible to blame something else. Sometimes we have to accept responsibility for what we have done – even when we are in God’s hands.
Even though God has promised to protect us, we do have to continue to listen to Him. If we don’t we may well find we are on our own and that is when shipwrecks happen…
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Psalm 102:17 He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their plea.
How many times have you turned someone away just because you don’t like them or because you were fighting them or arguing with them? How many of those people have been family members?
We turn people away, we don’t listen to them, we ignore them, we do all sorts of things to them just because we can…
But God will always listen to prayers, especially to those who need Him the most. It does not matter how evil they have been in the past or how they have ignored God in the past; if they are willing to come to God in honesty and with and open heart, He will never turn us away! What an awesome God!
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John 6:37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
One of the greatest things about God is that He will never turn you away if you come to Him. We have doctors that turn people away because they cannot afford medical help, we have authorities that turn people away because they say they do not have the staff to cope, we even have churches that turn people away…
But those decisions are all made by people and it is the people who are making the mistakes because that is not the way that God has told us we should be living. God does not turn people away who come to Him for help because God is the one who created us and continues to love us despite all we do to Him.
But if we never turn to God, then God cannot accept us…
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Psalm 19:8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
There are many things in life that we do not like doing, and straightening out our lives is one of them. When we are caught up in things we like to stay there just because we feel some safety in our bad situations; getting out of those situations always seems hard and painful.
God’s Word is designed to give us the encouragement that we need in order to help us out of those deep holes. God’s Word gives us a new hope to look toward, one that will allow us to aim for a better life without having to face all the horrible things along the way.
Yes we may have to face a few consequences, but the road will be a lot better after that.