Tag: heart
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Inside and Outside
20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.21Bind them on your heart always;tie them around your neck.22When you walk, they will lead you;when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.—Proverbs 6 We learn wise things in life to guide us and…
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A Simple Spiritual Test
5Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!–2 Corinthians 13 Paul was giving one last warning to the Corinthians. The chapter kind of had the vibe of a tired parent…
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Freedom
17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.—2 Corinthians 3 Paul in this chapter was needing to be bold again with the Corinthian church. And so Paul wrote about the confidence he had to so so. He tied this to the new covenant with God that…
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We Trust the Author
14“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.–Joshua 23 I…
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Two Sides to a ‘Hard’ Issue
19There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle. 20For it was the LORD’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no…
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Incline My Heart
36Incline my heart to your testimonies,and not to selfish gain!–Psalm 119 We continue our section by section journey through the longest chapter of the Bible! Here, the psalmist brings up a very key principle. Our hearts will naturally be inclined towards selfishness and pursuits of the self. The only hope we have to pursue other…
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In Whom Do You Trust?
8It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.9It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.–Psalm 118 A major difference between Biblical and secular counseling is found in anthropology. I have spoken with secular coaches and counselors who have said a version of this: “the answer…
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Be Steadfast, Yourself
1My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my being. 2Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn. 3I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing Your praises among the peoples.–Psalm 108 We love singing about God’s steadfast heart, but David proclaimed his.…
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Unite My Heart
11Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.–Psalm 86 Another great psalm by David. Good leaders are also good submitters. And David here wanted to be led by God. He proclaimed two things and then linked them to promise. David first spoke in a…
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The Generational Purpose
5He established a testimony in Jacoband appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,6that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,7so that they should set their hope in Godand not forget the works of God, but keep…
Joel M Bradshaw 