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Saturday, January 19, 2008

SEVEN VIRTUES

2ND PETER 1:5-10

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

1. FAITH
2. KNOWLEDGE
3. TEMPERANCE
4. PATIENCE
5. GODLINESS
6. BROTHERLY KINDNESS
7. CHARITY

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME...
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

GALATIANS 5:22-26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

1. LOVE
2. JOY
3. PEACE
4. LONGSUFFERING (PATIENCE)
5. GENTLENESS (KINDNESS)
6. GOODNESS
7. FAITH (FAITHFULNESS)
8. MEEKNESS (GENTLENESS)
9. TEMPERANCE (SELF CONTROL)

EPHESIANS 5:9-11 (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME...

Friday, January 18, 2008

ARE YOU IMPATIENT FOR THINGS TO HAPPEN?
Key Verse HEBREWS 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Other Verses
2ND SAMUEL 23:5 Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow.
PSALMS 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
PSALMS 37:7,9 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
PSALMS 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
ECCLESIASTES 3:1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
ECCLESIASTES 7:8 Better [is] the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [and] the patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit.
ISAIAH 25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
ISAIAH 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
ST MATTHEW 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
ST LUKE 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
ROMANS 5:3-4 And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
ROMANS 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
HEBREWS 10:35-37 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
HEBREWS 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
JAMES 1:3-4,12 Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
JAMES 5:11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
JAMES 5:16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
GALATIANS 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
REVELATION 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME...
THE LORD BRINGS HOPE TO YOU
Key Verse: PSALMS 71:5 For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.
Other Verses:
JOB 11:18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig [about thee, and] thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
PSLAMS 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
PSALMS 31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
PSALMS 33:18-19 Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
PSALMS 37:40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
PSALMS 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
PSALMS 48:14 For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death.
ROMANS 5:2,5 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
ROMANS 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
COLOSSIANS 1:27 To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
2ND TIMOTHY 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
HEBREWS 6:18-19 That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
1ST JOHN 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

YOU CAN GROW SPIRITUALLY
Key Verse: 2ND CORINTHIANS But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Other Verses:
DEUTERONOMY 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
PSALMS 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
PROVERBS 4:18 But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
EPHESIANS 3:17-19 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
EPHESIANS 4:14-15 That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:
PHILIPPIANS 1:6,9-10 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ: And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
COLOSSIANS 1:10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
2ND PETER 1:5-8 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME...
YOU CAN EXPECT ANSWERS TO YOUR PRAYERS
Key Verse: ST JOHN 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Other Verses:
PSALMS 21:2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
PSALMS 34:17 [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
PSALMS 37:4-5 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.
PSALMS 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
PSALMS 55:16-17 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
PSALMS 86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
PSALMS 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
ISAIAH 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
ISAIAH 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
JEREMIAH 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
ST MATTHEW 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
ST MATTHEW 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
ST MATTHEW 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
ST MARK 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them].
ST LUKE 11:10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
ST JOHN 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do [it].
ROMANS 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
ROMANS 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
HEBREWS 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
1ST 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.
1ST JOHN 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

THE LORD WILL BAPTIZE YOU IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
Key Verse: ST MATTHEW 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and [with] fire:
Other Verses:
PROVERBS 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
EZEKIEL 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].
JOEL 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
ST MATTHEW 5:6 Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
ST LUKE 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
ST JOHN 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
ST JOHN 14:16-17,26 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
ST JOHN 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
ST JOHN 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
ACTS 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
ACTS 2:38-39 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.
1ST CORINTHIANS 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1ST CORINTHIANS 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1ST CORINTHIANS 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
2ND CORINTHIANS 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
GALATIANS 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
EPHESIANS 1:13 In whom ye also [trusted], after that ye heard 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,

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME...