Be honest with God

"Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul." — Job 7:11

We sometimes think of God as too fragile, too distant, or too brooding to speak with him honestly about our dilemmas. Job wasn't so shy. He is the great reminder that God prefers us to maintain our relationship with him, even if it is stormy. No matter where you are in your struggles, be honest with God — not disrespectfully, but sincerely. Let him minister to your truest hurts, frustrations, and fears, not just the simple and sanitized ones.

Yoked 

Numbers 25:3

So Israel yoked themselves to  the Baal of Peor.  And the Lord’s anger burned against them.

Numbers 25:5

So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death  those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”

1 Samuel 6:10

So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves.

Whoever 

Leviticus 7:27

Anyone who eats blood  must be cut off from their people.’”

Leviticus 17:14

because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”

Psalm 107:43

Let the one who is wise  heed these things

 and ponder the loving deeds  of the Lord.

Hebrew 4:10

for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,  just as God did from his.

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 God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love  their brother and sister.

[Message No: 7863]