Read the Bible and Live it!
Bible
Reference:
1 Timothy
4:6-11
A Good Servant of
Jesus Christ
…exercise yourself toward
godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profits a little, but
godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is
and of that which is to come…
Day 19! Colossians 3 gets right to the nitty
gritty telling us about our life in Christ and how we must live. We already
gave up, or should have given up, the obvious sins, now as we are growing and
moving closer to God, we are letting go of the subtle sins.
But now you must also rid
yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and
filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other,
since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new
self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
I still struggle with anger and
its usually only when I neglect to fill up my spiritual tank. The more I
neglect my spiritual man being fed, the more carnal I become. Its reaping
and sowing. When I sow more to the spirit, I reap good quality character to
grow on. This is something we must all strive for, godly character.
I love it when I go to church
and you can see God at work all over the place. God can really just blow our
minds sometimes. Yesterday He did just that. First, I left my house fed up with the way
things were at home and was contemplating separating from my husband for a
while. While teaching Sunday School, my husband showed up and has never been to
my church. Then an old friend of his shows up who has never been to my church
before either. It was like God had
orchestrated a reunion and peace in the midst of trouble and trials. And to top
it all off, the pastor preached from James 1 about having patience and persevering
through the trials and tribulations.
God knows our every need and when we go through
things he is allowing them to build us up and make us stronger and to test our
faith. We will pass the test or will we fail? Just know that either way God is
there to show us the results and give us a door that leads us to righteous
decision. But it is still our choice to choose the right path.
So we see in Colossians 3:12-17 compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, peace,
thankfulness, and love on top. If we add these things to any relationship we
will succeed in making the best efforts of a healthy relationship, but this
takes effort and work and walking in the spirit.
Let’s remember to be thankful
in all things and let Christ rule our hearts! His ways are always better
anyway! ;)
Colossians 3 ends with simple
instructions: Wives submit to the husband, husbands treat your wives and
children right, children obey the parents, and workers work as unto the Lord.
We serve the Lord Christ Amen!
30 Day Challenge
DAY 1 Galatians 1
DAY 2 Galatians 2
DAY 3 Galatians 3
DAY
4 Galatians 4
DAY
5 Galatians 5
DAY
6 Galatians 6
DAY
7 Ephesians 1
DAY
8 Ephesians 2
DAY
9 Ephesians 3
DAY
10 Ephesians 4
DAY
11 Ephesians 5
DAY
12 Ephesians 6
DAY
13 Philippians 1
DAY
14 Philippians 2
DAY
15 Philippians 3
DAY
16 Philippians 4
DAY
17 Colossians 1
DAY
18 Colossians 2
DAY
19 Colossians 3
DAY 20 Colossians 4
DAY 21 1st Thessalonians 1
DAY 22 1st Thessalonians 2
DAY 23 1st Thessalonians 3
DAY 24 1st Thessalonians 4
DAY 25 1st Thessalonians 5
DAY 26 2nd Thessalonians 1
DAY 27 2nd Thessalonians 2
DAY 28 2nd Thessalonians 3
DAY 29 1 Timothy 1
DAY 30 1 Timothy 2
Friends, let me leave you with this…our 30 day
challenge closing:
(1) Faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God
(2) Without Faith it is impossible to
please God
(3) Faith without works is
dead
Philippians 4:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 Finally,
brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is
excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Walk in the Spirit,
Prophetess Deanna Mack
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