By Charles StanleyWeek 6 Devo 3Controlling Anger Scripture Reading: James 1:19-27 Key Verse: He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. "Be angry, and do not sin" was Paul's carefully crafted, Spirit-inspired alert to...
19My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Read ChapterAll Versions Ecclesiastes 7:9 ...
the Lord will be clear with a solution and the instructions are usually simple. Not easy to carry out, but simple to understand. Listen to his encouragement to the Israelites when he told them to cross the Red Sea on dry land.
Another reminder to us that we can have things in our lives that God has told us to remove, but we believe“we have under control,”so we don’t completely “drive them out.” And just as the inhabitants of the land would later pull the Israelites down and lead them into sin and id...
It was statements like this that caused Martin Luther to identify the letter of James as an “epistle of straw,” and to reject it as part of the canon of scripture. While this passage is certainly not the Gospel, nonetheless it is part of the Bible, and must be considered as true. ...
The walk of faith requires discipline of mind and will. Ultimately, “whatever is not from faith is sin” (Rom 14:23). Faith starts with God and His directives and promises. Once we learn about God’s directives, provisions and promises, He expects us to live by them, to be “doers...
21Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth, Read ChapterAll Versions Micah 7:18-19 18Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but deligh...
If it could be proved to you, without a doubt, of God’s existence, would you become a believer and seeker of Him and truth? Most would say, “No, I am too busy with my life.” Is it possible that unbelief is not because of a so-called lack of evidence but of something else...
Perhaps you know the hopelessness that comes seeing the unrighteousness of this world, the unfairness that people have to live with and the injustice of systems around us that we seem not to be able to do anything about. That was the hopelessness that I faced in the coal regions and people...
If you say the sinners prayer or how ever you received Christ into your life, if you continue to keep living in sin with out a conscious or not being convicted of what you do, than your salvation might be questionable. Either your saved or not saved. Like Judas who was hand picked by...