I want to get scripture more deeply inside me and I know we can do that by meditating throughout the day on key scriptures.
You can put scriptures into an email to yourself so when you open your email throughout that day, those scriptures will be there and this will give you more opportunity to think on those scripture and do them.
Joan Boney
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Recently I have been dealing with two women from our church group. During the situation, God gave me several scriptures to uphold me and strengthen me and to show me the way to go and the way to continue to go.
First God showed me that which a godly woman is and that which we can expect her to be in the church.
Proverbs 31
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
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From the church people, we see the fruits of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-23
Butter the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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Some people cannot be corrected. No matter what you do they continue to be like Nabal.
I Samuel 25
3 the man was churlish and evil in his doings;
Churlish:
- marked by a lack of civility or graciousness
- surly
- rude in a mean spirited way
- hard to work with or deal with
- selfish, saying things without regard for feeling of others
17 he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
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In the church group, there are some who are always learning but the truth is not in them for they learn by their own minds and not by the Spirit of God. They have "a form of godlessness" but it is not by the Spirit. They copy those people they consider to be godly and their religion is of their own selves and their own thinking.
II Timothy 3
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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We often explain and explain and they never understand for understanding is from God and the natural man "receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." II Corinthians 2
There is no way we can make them understand. God gives understanding. We can't give understanding.
Luke 16
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
31 If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
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Our fellowship is with those who are truly of God, those who walk in the ways of God and continue in the ways of God. Those who keep God's word and love God's word more than anything else.
I John 1
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Walk with those who demonstrate to us that they follow God by HIS Spirit out of a pure heart. You cannot walk with a person who steals your joy. We cannot walk with darkness if we are light. If the church person is an enemy of the Word of God, choosing to go in a way opposite to the Word of God, we cannot "fellowship" with that person though he says, "Jesus is Lord."
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Genesis 21:10 Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Cast out: defined by following scripture
John 2:13-16 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when HE had made a scourge of small cords, HE drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
Genesis 21:10 Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Cast out: defined by following scripture
John 2:13-16 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when HE had made a scourge of small cords, HE drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
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