All Men are Free to Obey or Disobey

All Men are Free to Obey or Disobey 

God:

Matthew 12:50 

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 3:35 

Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother.”

Christ:

Mark 8:34 

Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

1 John 3:6 

No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

1 John 3:10 

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 4:15 

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God.

1 John 5:1 

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

2 John 1:9 

Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

The Holy Spirit:

Matthew 12:31-32 

31 And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 

32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Overcoming

Overcoming 

James 3:7 

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,

Ephesians 6:10 

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

Ephesians 6:11 

Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.

Ephesians 6:16 

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Revelation 2:3 

You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.

Deuteronomy 28:2-6 

2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your 

livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:13 

The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

2 Peter 1:4 

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

1 Timothy 6:11 

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

Daily Thoughts

Daily Thoughts 

. Suffering can prepare ordinary Christians for extraordinary service.

. Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.

. Contentment comes when we realize God has everything we need.

. Children of the king should use the language of the court.

. Work harder at being what you should be than at hiding what you are.

. Our words and our deeds should say the same thing.

. Focusing on Christ puts everything else in perspective.

. It’s never too soon to be kind, but it can be too late.

Encouragement and God’s Promises

Isaiah 49:13 

Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Zechariah 1:17 

“Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”

All Creatures of Our God and King

“Art is man’s nature: nature is God’s art” ~ Philip James Bailey

“At home with Nature, and one with God!” ~ Florence Earle Coates

“Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.” ~ William Cooper

“The man who can really, in living union of mind and heart, converse with God through nature, finds in the material forms around him, a source of power and happiness inexhaustible, and like the like of angels. The highest life and glory of man is to be alive unto God; and when this grandeur of sensibility of Him, and this power of communion with Him is carried, as the habit of the soul, into the forms of nature, then the walls of our world are as the gates of heaven.” ~ George B. Cheever

Tempting God and Christ

Tempting God and Christ 

Murmuring

Exodus 17:3 

But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Numbers 14:2 

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert!

Numbers 14:27-29 

27 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. 

28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say: 

29 In this desert your bodies will fall—every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.

Numbers 14:36 

So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report about it—

Numbers 16:11 

It is against the LORD that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?”

Numbers 16:41 

The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “You have killed the LORD's people,” they said.

Numbers 17:5 

The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling against you by the Israelites.”

Numbers 17:10 

The LORD said to Moses, “Put back Aaron's staff in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.”

Deuteronomy 1:27 

You grumbled in your tents and said, “The LORD hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us.

Philippians 2:14 

Do everything without complaining or arguing,

Bible diseases and infirmities

Bible diseases and infirmities

Boils 

Exodus 9:10 

So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on men and animals.

Deuteronomy 28:27 

The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

Leprosy

Leviticus 14:15 

The priest shall then take some of the log of oil, pour it in the palm of his own left hand,

Matthew 8:1-4

1 When he came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. 

2 A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

3 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cured of his leprosy. 

4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you don't tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

Lameness/Blemishes/Fat nose

Leviticus 21:18 

No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed;

Crooked back/Dwarfed

Leviticus 21:20 

Or who is hunchbacked or dwarfed, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles.

Beth Moore’s Quotes

~ Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

~ Only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred?

~ You are Gods chief creation, and you are here for His pleasure and His glory.

~ Some things don’t need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.