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“REVERENCE For GOD“

The following scriptures referenced with this third habit are related to having Reverence for our Father God, also known as Abba.

We start with Psalm 46:10
“Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world.”

Psalm 89:7
The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God.
He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne.

Psalm 111:9
He has paid a full ransom for his people.
He has guaranteed his covenant with them forever.
What a holy, awe-inspiring name he has!

Hebrews 12:28-29
28 Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe.29 For our God is a devouring fire.

I pray that you will discover how to show Reverence for the Almighty Father now and forever.

Be blessed beloved!
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And this is what He says to all humanity:
‘The fear of the Lord is true wisdom;
to forsake evil is real understanding.’”
Job 28:28

“WORSHIP“

The following scriptures referenced with this first habit are related to Worshipping the Lord God.

I pray that you will be enlightened as you read each one.

We start with 1 Chronicles 16:29
Give to the LORD the glory he deserves!
Bring your offering and come into his presence.
Worship the LORD in all his holy splendor.

Psalm 95:6
Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the LORD our maker,

Psalm 99:5,9
5 Exalt the LORD our God!
Bow low before his feet, for he is holy!
9 Exalt the LORD our God,
and worship at his holy mountain in Jerusalem,
for the LORD our God is holy!

John 4:23-24
23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”

Be blessed beloved!
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“‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’
Matthew 22:37

I came across the message of this post from my Christian neighbor and wanted to share it with all of you.

I think this post explains it better than any of the ways I would have explained it.

“The Ultimate Source Of Wisdom”

As you go through life you discover that there are many ways to gain wisdom, such as: (1) Writing down and reflecting on what you learned through experience. (2) Gleaning from the collective knowledge of others. “by pride comes nothing but strife, but with the well advised is wisdom” (Proverbs 13:10 NKJV). (3) Thinking outside the box. Statements like, “This is the way we do things around here” warrant scrutiny when they’re used to defend ways that no longer work. (4) Not rushing to closure. Growth is always a work in progress. Creativity is untidy and unnerving. The ability to stay focused and faith-filled in the midst of change is a hallmark of maturity.

But the ultimate source of wisdom is God! If you need wisdom, talk to God: “For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding” (Proverbs 2:6 NKJV). “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally…and it will be given to him” (James 1:5 NKJV). “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy” (Jamse 3:17 NKJV). “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you” (Psalm 32:8 NKJV).

Ask the Lord God Almighty for the spirit of wisdom as often as you need to!
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Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise. Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:20-21 NIV/NLT

Since I started reading the bible, I’ve always kept a list of encouraging bible verses. I use this list, from Genesis through Revelation, to refresh my comprehension and enlightenment when ever I read a verse that inspires me to connect the proverbial dots…

Today we can always hop on-line and get a plethora of information on any subject. But being able to tell the good from bad or the right from wrong isn’t always as easy as we might think.

The subject of this post is: What Encouraging Bible Verses Are Your Favorites? This question came from a reader of the Bible-Religion.com blog last week.

In all fairness I think  each one of us have different bible verses that encourage us.  However, I will share some of my favorite verses with all of you here, in no particular order of preference:
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And this is what He says to all humanity:
‘The fear of the Lord is true wisdom;
to forsake evil is real understanding.’”
Job 28:28 NLT

“But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
1 John 4:8 NLT

The Bible says, “…those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life is begun!”
2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT

“Now turn from your sins and turn to God, so you can be cleansed of your sins.”
Acts 3:19 NLT

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
Philippians 4:6 NLT

May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.
2 Peter 1:2 NLT

“You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it.”
Matthew 21:22 NLT

Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God.
Romans 12:19 NLT

There is no peace for the wicked,”says my God.
Isaiah 57:21 NLT

For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.
1 John 5:4 NLT

But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3 NLT

Be stewards of the earth. “The land itself must observe a Sabbath rest”
Leviticus 25:2 NLT

For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile
Romans 1:16 NLT

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws.
Psalm 119:30 NIV

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:14 NIV

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
James 1:22 NIV
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If you are not keeping your own list of encouraging bible verses and would like to start one, perhaps you will be inspired by these favorite verses of the bible at the New Living Translation.com! This will allow you to view the collection of favorite verses by simply selecting a book from the bible to view a list of all the favorite verses from each book.

I will sometimes even take the verse and go to Biblegateway.com and look it up in multiple versions, up to five at a time, that can give me a different perspective on the verse I am interested in.

What encouraging bible verses are your favorites?
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Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
Philippians 4:6 NIV/NLT/NKJV

ometimes God allows us to hit the bottom in order to discover that He’s the rock at the bottom. Gideon faced an army of 135,000 troops with just 32,000 of his own soldiers. And 22,000 of them left the battlefield and went home when he offered them the chance. Do the math. Gideon’s thinking, “there’s no way we can win!”

Then God explains: “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, for Israel would become boastful, saying, “My own power has delivered me’” (Judges 7:2 NAS/NLT). There it is again, the age-old battle of ego that we all fight daily. It is why the Lord’s Prayer ends with: “Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen” (Matthew 6:13 KJV/NLT).

Where does our power come from? God! Who should the glory for our accomplishments go to? God! How long does this arrangement last? Forever!

God had to break Jacob of self-sufficiency so the “Israel” within him could come out. Sometimes God has to take you down before He can rise you up. Moses was called the meekest man on earth. But it took forty years of living like a shepherd in the wilderness to detox him of pride and get him submitted to God. Only then was he ready to stand before Pharaoh and perform miracles that demonstrated God’s power - and vindicated Moses!

Brokenness doesn’t mean being a wimp, suffering from an inferiority complex or having a case of low self-esteem. No, brokenness means praying, “Lord if this job is going to get done and done right, You’re going to have to do it through me, so my trust is in You.”

e don’t always know the reason for our trials, but God revealed to Paul the reason for his “thorn in the flesh.” It was to keep him from being “exalted” (see 2 Corinthians 12:7 KJV/NLT). success can be intoxicating, and intoxicated people aren’t known for being too bright or trustworthy!

What happens when you get a thorn in your flesh? It hurts and you’ll let everything else go while you focus on removing it. Three times Paul prayed for God to remove the thorn, but God had another plan. You see, God is at His strongest when we are at our weakest. When Paul discovered that God’s power in his life was tied to the thorn that afflicted him, he responded, “I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities… For whenever I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10 NRS/NLT). In other words, “If it’s for my good, bring it on, Lord!”

If you have a thorny person in your life from whom you’ve prayed to be delivered and it hasn’t happened, maybe God wants you to experience His grace and power through dealing with that person. But you won’t experience this until you move from pain to praise.

The Bible speaks about “the sacrifice of praise to God” (Hebrews 13:15 KJV/NLT). A sacrifice means that something has to die on somebody’s altar. So if you want to experience God’s grace and power in your life, you must be willing to die to self-interest, ego, and independence. There is nothing wrong with asking God to remove your thorn. But when your prayer for deliverance turns to praise, you’re on your way to receiving His power, because God is giving you grace.
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.
Psalm 51:17 (NIV/NLT)

Psalm 117 is the shortest chapter in the Bible. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible. Psalm 118 is at the center of the Bible.  There are 594 chapters in the Bible before Psalm 118, and 594 chapters after Psalm 118 for a total of 1188 chapters total in the Bible.

This number can be split at Psalm 118:8. Now we know that the chapter divisions in the bible are not part of original Scripture, but isn’t it interesting how this small word exercise worked out? Or was God in the center of it all? And if He was, shouldn’t the central verse of the Bible contain the central theme? It does: “It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in people.”

In Psalm 118 (NLT) the psalmist recalls seven reasons why God is worthy to be trusted:

1. (verse 5) “In my distress I prayed to the LORD,
and the LORD answered me and set me free.”

2. (verse 6) “The LORD is for me, so I will have no fear.
What can mere people do to me?”

3. (verse 7) “Yes, the LORD is for me; he will help me.
I will look in triumph at those who hate me.”

4. (verse 17) “I will not die; instead, I will live
to tell what the LORD has done.”

5. (verse 18) “The LORD has punished me severely,
but he did not let me die.”

6. (verse 24) “This is the day the LORD has made.
We will rejoice and be glad in it.”

7. (verse 29) “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good!
His faithful love endures forever.”
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Praise the LORD, all you nations. Praise him, all you people of the earth.
Psalm 117:1 NLT

If you live in the USA you know where I’m going with this post… Seriously, has everyone become so lazy that simple courtesy is out of fashion.

Frankly, fashion doesn’t matter.  What DOES Matter is that the current generation of young adults, teenagers and the likes have absolutely No Moral Values or Ethics.

Respect and Lying… None
Adultery and Stealing… None
Love one another… Nope
and On and On and On

Why is this? I believe it is because of the deterioration of old fashion/traditional ways of rearing our children, like discipline, teaching and instruction, guidance, protection and the necessary preparation of our youth to carry on good Christian values. The Ten Commandments make it very clear. I wish more people new about the importance of keeping the Ten Commandments in Fashion.

In fact the US Supreme Court ruled (June 28, 2005) on public displays of the Ten Commandments across America that may be the summation of what we are currently dealing with.

The Ten Commandments are the most important and maybe misunderstood Laws of God, but they are the road map to living life in a moral, ethical and scrupulous way. They are in the open for all to see and obey. Your choice!

Here are three versions of Gods Ten Laws from three different bibles, side-by-side.

Bottom line, if the younger generations payed more attention to life’s moral structure we would be able to have the Body of Christ in whole now, and happiness would abound worldwide. What a shame that all the morals have gone!

Unfortunately, it is these very same youths parents that are to blame. They have become lax, lazy and simply engrossed in the pursuit of what the world is offering them from the dark side like greed, materialism, pride and living life without knowing what their purpose is here on Earth.

I am (and we should be) appalled at their conduct and that they are becoming a society of misguided heathens. I try (we need) to take every opportunity that presents itself and correct the situation on the spot… (at least point it out to these folks)!

Where have all the morals gone?

Are you living by the Laws of God?
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I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws.
Psalm 119:30 NIV