Tag: thoughts
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Your Heart Reflects You
19As in water face reflects face,so the heart of man reflects the man.–Proverbs 27 There was that old fable about the dog and the bone. He carried the bone in his mouth and then looked down at a pond and saw a dog carrying a bone in his mouth. He wanted the bone and so…
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Address the Thoughts
5The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.–Proverbs 12 One of the running subplots of the book of Proverb is who you identify with. You are either acting like the wise person or the fool. You are either listening to Lady Wisdom or Madam Folly. Here, you are either…
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Your Greatest Weapon
5…take every thought captive to obey Christ…–2 Corinthians 10 Paul was describing the inner war that Christians wage against the enemy. His context seems to indicate spiritual warfare, not physical people. He mentioned destroying arguments on the one hand and one’s own behavior on the other. This implies that the enemy was tempting the Corinthians…
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Don’t Act Like God Doesn’t Matter!
8Understand, O dullest of the people!Fools, when will you be wise?9He who planted the ear, does he not hear?He who formed the eye, does he not see?10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?He who teaches man knowledge—11the LORD—knows the thoughts of man,that they are but a breath.–Psalm 94 This anonymous psalm definitely had a…
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Be Acceptable
14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heartbe acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.–Psalm 19 My wife once cooked me a fantastic birthday dinner. And I remember that rather than gushing with thanksgiving, I decided to play a little joke on her. When she asked me how…
Joel M Bradshaw 