Author: Sharon

TIME TO BE HUMBLE

JAMES 4:10  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

LUKE 18:14  …. every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

1 PETER 5:6  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

PROVERBS 18:12  Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, …..

PROVERBS 15:33  The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

ACTS 20:19  Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, ….

TURN TO CHRIST, RESIST THE DEVIL

JAMES 4:7-8  7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

EPHESIANS 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

EPHESIANS 4:26-27  26 …. let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27 Neither give place to the devil.

1 CORINTHIANS 10:20-21   20 …. I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ….

JOHN 14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

JOHN14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: ….

THE WORLD OR GRACE?

JAMES 4:4…. whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

1 JOHN 2:15  …. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

MARK 4:19  And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful

2 CORINTHIANS 4:4  …. the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, …. should shine unto them.

EPHESIANS 2:2,8  2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:  8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

HOW TO ASK AND RECEIVE?

JAMES 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

1 JOHN 3:22  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

JAMES 1:5-7  5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

LUKE 11:9  And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

JOHN 14:14  If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

1 JOHN 5:14-15 14  And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

LORD GUIDE MY TONGUE

JAMES 3:6,8  6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, …. 8 …. the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

PROVERBS 16:27  An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

1 PETER 3:10  For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

PROVERBS 21:23  Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

PROVERBS 18:21  Death and life are in the power of the tongue: ….

PHILIPPIANS 2:11,13  11 …. every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

THE LAW POINTS US TO JESUS

JAMES 2:10,12  10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

JAMES 1:25  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, …. shall be blessed in his deed.

ROMANS 7:12,14  12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

ROMANS 8:7,8,14  7 …. the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

GALATIANS 3:24,26  24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 26 ….  ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

JOHN 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

NOT OF WORKS, JUST GOOD SENSE

JAMES 1:27  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 JOHN 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

ROMANS 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God

2 CORINTHIANS 4:4  …. the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, …. should shine unto them.

1 JOHN 5:19  ….  the whole world lieth in wickedness.

2 CORINTHIANS 6:17,16  17 ….  come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, …., 16 …. ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

PERFECT LAW AND LOVE

JAMES 1:25  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

PSALM 19:7  The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

ROMANS 7:12  Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

HEBREWS 8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make…. , saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

1 JOHN 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

JOHN 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

REVELATION 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, ….

THE POWER OF THE WORD OF GOD

JAMES 1:21-22 21 …. receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

EPHESIANS 1:13 …. the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

MATTHEW 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

LUKE 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, ….

JOHN 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

JOHN 8:31-32 31 …. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.