“if you want to grow in wisdom, spend time with the wise.
Walk with the wicked and you’ll eventually become just like them.” Proverbs 13:20 (TPT)
Who are you keeping company with?
Who are you really hanging out with?
On what type of social media do you browse often?
You become whom you consistently associate with.
To be wise, you have to spend time with the wise.
You have to spend a great deal of time in the Word.
“Wisdom’s praises are sung in the streets and celebrated far and wide. Yet wisdom’s song is not always heard in the halls of higher learning. But in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, its lyrics can always be heard above the din of the crowd.[a] You will hear wisdom’s warning as she preaches courageously to those who stop to listen:” Proverbs 1:20-21 (TPT)
Today Stop to listen to wisdom from the wise.
The Holy Spirit is the most excellent teacher available to you now.
Spend time with Him and especially in the Word.
“But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you.” John14:26 (AMPC)
Do not continue in the company of the wicked who will defile you and you will eventually become like them.
Spend time with the Wise and become who God has purposed you to be.
“Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied!” Matthew 5: 6 (AMPC)
What do you long for?
What are you passionate about?
What is it that quickly gets your attention at any time of the day?
Today lets check ourselves and search our hearts as to what drives us in all that we do.
What should be of paramount importance to us is our relationship with God.
Nothing we say or do in private or public life should ever take us away from His presence
Don’t allow popular but wrong values to be your daily priority
You should consistently desire to be in HIS Presence in all that you do.
Can you sing and reflect on this song by Keith Green.
“Create in me a clean heart, oh God
And renew a right spirit within me
Create in me a clean heart, oh God
And renew a right spirit within me
Cast me not away from Thy presence, oh Lord
Take not Thy holy spirit from me
Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation
And renew a right spirit within me…”
“How enriched you are when you crave righteousness! For you will be surrounded with fruitfulness” Matthew 5:6 (TPT)
“ Now these things befell them by way of a figure [as an example and warning to us]; they were written to admonish and fit us for right action by good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached their climax (their consummation and concluding period). Therefore let anyone who thinks he stands [who feels sure that he has a steadfast mind and is standing firm], take heed lest he fall [into sin].” 1 Corinthians 10:11-12 (AMPC)
Sometimes people say experience is the best teacher.
Experience is a teacher, but not always the best teacher.
God’s plan for us is to learn from the word of God and overcome temptations so that we can make our life more meaningful and purposeful.
Don’t make the same mistakes the people before you made.
Stop the negative generational pattern that has been occurring in your family line.
Find out your family history.
Line them up with the Word.
Reject those not consistent with the abundance of life you have in Christ Jesus.
Multiply those values entrenched in the Scriptures.
There is “nothing new” in what you are going through in life right now that those circumstances and experiences cannot be related to the Bible. (1 Peter4: 12-16)
Look for a Bible Character that best personifies what you are going through and learn from that life in the Bible.
The Bible verses above is a reminder to you today to diligently search the scripture and let the Holy Spirit teach you what to do in your peculiar situation.
They are examples that provide us with a warning so that we can learn through what they experienced.
God is still at work in your life, therefore, don’t make hasty decisions.
Stay close to the Word and avoid repeating mistakes!!!
“Listen, you lovers of God! Hate evil, for God, can keep you from wrong and protect you from the power of wickedness.” Psalm 97:10 The (TPT)
Globally today there are enough economic and political facts to justify certain viewpoints depending on your perception and possible bias.
However, as a child of God, you are not allowed by God not only to hate evil but also not to participate in evil speech.
You must at all times in your conduct denounce evil as God does.
There exist a pictorial maxim of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” usually depicted by 3 monkeys.
If the world should pass around such a “proverb” to discourage seeing evil, hearing evil and speaking no evil, the children of God should do much more than that.
Do not indulge in any evil chat via the various media platforms you may belong to.
“My dearest brothers and sisters, take this to heart: Be quick to listen,[abut slow to speak. And be slow to become angry, for human anger is never a legitimate tool to promote God’s righteous purpose. So this is why we abandon everything morally impure and all forms of wicked conduct. Instead, with a sensitive spirit, we absorb God’s Word, which has been implanted within our nature, for the Word of Life has the power to deliver us continually. Don’t just listen to the Word of Truth and not respond to it, for that is the essence of self-deception. So always let his Word become like poetry written and fulfilled by your life!” James 1:19-22 (TPT)
Love God with all your heart and your total being.
Be like God in doing good all around you.
“How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing good and, [a]in particular, curing all who were harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him.” Acts 10:38) (AMPC)
“And if anyone doesn’t listen to you and rejects your message when you leave that house or town, shake the dust off your feet as a prophetic act that you will not take their defilement with you” Matthew 10:14 (TPT)
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ clearly told the disciples when He was sending them out for the first time to preach the Good News of the kingdom that they will meet people who will not only not listen to them but will also reject their message.
However, the disciples should not be discouraged by this none acceptance of the message and shake it off like dust from their feet.
Today some of us cling to that rejection of the message and allow it to serve s discouragement in preaching the gospel to other people.
Remember when you meet with people who not only challenge your message and literarily defile you don’t give up on spreading the Good News to other people.
In what way and manner have you felt offended because people reject you?
“When you knock on a door, be courteous in your greeting. If they welcome you, be gentle in your conversation. If they don’t welcome you, quietly withdraw. Don’t make a scene. Shrug your shoulders and be on your way. You can be sure that on Judgment Day they’ll be mighty sorry—but it’s no concern of yours now.” Matthew 10:14-15 (MSG)
When you share the message of the Kingdom, and they accept the message Praise God for that move on.
However when the message is rejected don’t turn their rejection into a “message” to the next people God will send you to, leave them and their rejection of the Gospel for God to sort out.
Don’t linger there and be exacerbated by their degradation.
Keep on sharing the Good News as the Lord Jesus instructed.
“And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.” Luke 11:2 (KJV)
It is about Hallowing God and not Halloween
God created us in His image and everything we do as His creation must Glorify Him.
Hallowing God means to “ 1. to make holy; sanctify; consecrate: to hallow the name of the Lord. 2. to honor as holy; consider sacred; venerate: to hallow a battlefield.” (Free Dictionary Definition)
Today let everything you do give reverence to God and not the opposite.
Light and darkness do not and cannot mix together.
There is no Christian way to celebrate Halloween.
It’s not of God.
Its origin and practice have consistently been satanic and evil.
As a child of God use every opportunity you have by your ways and manner Glorify God that has given you life.
“Pray like this: ‘Our Father, dwelling in the heavenly realms, may the glory of your name be the center on which our lives turn.” Matthew 6:9 (TPT)
Let God be the real anchor that holds your life together and not any satanically inspired event no matter how famous, popular and captivating it might be.
God says He has come to give you life and that abundantly.
Celebrate Him with joy and gladness and don’t participate in evil scary costumes and certainly don’t evilly dress your children.
God condemns every form of participating in witchcraft (Deuteronomy 18:10-13
Don’t mix up your values; don’t mess up your values.
Halloween is not of God
“For this reason, “Come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord. “Touch nothing that is unclean, and I will embrace you” 2 Corinthians 6:17 (TPT)
Don’t trick or treat. Show consistently true love from God.
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