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Be sensitive to listen
Consecrate your hearts
Show a deep respect for God’s presence
think it is highly significant that when the Sinai meeting began, it was not Moses who went up, but God who came down. When we prepare for our meeting by fulfilling God’s requirements, He comes down. He accomplishes the contact. It pleases Him intensely when His children properly prepare for their encounters with Him.
A healthy fear of God will do much to deter us from sin. When we have a proper fear of the living Lord, we live a cleaner life. Any born-again person who sins willfully has momentarily blocked out his fear of God.
I must say that this wholesome fear of the Almighty has turned up missing in our era. And when it is absent, we think we may do as we please. You can live as you please if you know you’re not being seen and you won’t get caught. But if, down deep inside, you know there is a loving and holy God who will not let you get away with sin, you will avoid sin at all costs. That is exactly what the Lord wanted to establish first with the people of Israel— a holy, righteous, pure, and respectful concept of His presence.
To hear from God, you need the Scriptures.
All right, you’ve heard it. But why have you stopped doing it? I know it’s nothing new. Our problem does not lie in finding something new, our problem lies in our neglect to practice known truth.
Those who determine to walk with God become the target of the enemy.
Your enemy is like a roaring lion, looking for unassuming prey. He preys most greedily upon the godly. If you compromise your walk, you’re not really a target of the enemy. Why should he waste his time? You’re already halfway in his camp. But if you determine to stand alone and against the tide; if you reject the world’s opinion of how to spend your life; if you determine to live according to biblical standards, be sure that your enemy is seeking to devour you. You will encounter the darts of the devil.
“Whoever desires to walk with God walks right into the crucible.”
“Maturity is moving from a soft skin and a tough heart to a tough skin and a soft heart.”
If your walk with Christ is consistent, all hell will break loose. But all heaven will come to your rescue! And you’ll be right in the middle of cosmic, high-stakes warfare.
Anger, we are told, begins with mild irritation. This stage is marked by uneasiness, brought on by some unpleasant disturbance.
That can lead to indignation, a deeper level of intensity. Indignation is a reaction to something that seems unfair or unreasonable.
The third level is wrath, which psychologists say never goes unexpressed. No one restrains wrath. When your anger reaches this level, you have a strong desire to avenge, to fight back, or to defend, and you will not hold back.
Uncontrolled anger soon becomes fury, the fourth level. Fury introduces violence. It may include a momentary loss of control—even a temporary loss of sanity. In a moment of fury we strike out against someone else.
The fifth stage is rage, the most intense level of angry expressions. Rage, we are told, is the most dangerous form of anger. It can so overcome a person that it inspires acts of brutal violence, sometimes performed without conscious awareness.
we must confess that we all have within us the very same potential for violence. The only difference is the matter of control.
An act of disobedience stems from unbelief.
A public act of disobedience diminishes God’s glory.
“The plain and sobering lesson is that God deals more stringently with the sins of leaders, especially when their public actions involve His glory.”
Any such act, though forgiven, bears painful consequences.
When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.
When God removes, He replaces.
When God appoints, He approves.
And with the exception of the death of His Son, the Author of Scripture never lingers long over death.
The secret of fulfillment in life is involvement.
The secret of reality in life is humility.
Praise may come, but don’t let it come from your own voice box.
The secret of happiness in life is perspective.
choose whether to have children,
Or have the decision made for you. Oops lol
He’s forgotten in Egypt, but he’s greatly honored in heaven.
To have the discernment it takes to refuse the sinful, faith must overshadow my feelings .
To have the determination it takes to leave the familiar, faith must be my security.
To have the discipline it takes to do the unusual, faith must silence the critics.
“Sometimes it is better to be there and have fellowship with the dead who are buried than to walk down the streets of our cities and meet the unburied dead;
Sometimes we can learn more from the silence of the dead than from the speech of the living.”
