Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? Luke 16:10-11 Integrity with money. Money is a hard thing. We need it. We want it. Some are greedy, some are stingy, some are generous. Whether we are financially tight or set very well off, there are times where every person will be tempted to be dishonest with money. For some it could be a blink of the eye temptation, for others it can be a…
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Guard Your Integrity
Take double the amount of silver with you, for you must return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake. Genesis 43:12 Joseph’s father Jacob had integrity. Joseph’s brother’s left Egypt to return home. When they arrived they found money in the grain bag. It was the money they used to pay for the grain. However, they could not prove that they paid for it. Several months later, the brothers had to return to Egypt for more food. Jacob instructed the brothers to take the extra money so they could pay for the previous purchase along with the new item…
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Hold Fast to Integrity
And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason. Job 2:3 Suffering! Agony! Pain! Sorrow! Job lived through a lot of hard things in his life. Prior to all this, God says he is a blameless and upright man. Job fears God and turns away from evil. He held fast his integrity. How often have you gone through trials and not understand why? We suffer because we are…
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Integrity Protects
Let the integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you. Psalm 25:21 While we are living for God and obeying His word, our integrity and uprightness preserve us. We can trust God while we wait for him. Let’s see what some other versions say. NIV: May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord is in you. NLV: May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you. HCSB: May integrity and what is right, watch over me, for I wait for you. Which version helps you understand? Different versions can help us understand what the verse is saying. Yesterday we learned what integrity…
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Integrity
The integrity of the upright guides them but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. Proverbs 11:3 Do you have integrity? Do you know what integrity means? According to the dictionary, integrity means the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness; the state of being whole and undivided Integrity is doing and saying what is right. It’s our obedience to God’s law. It’s owning up to our mistakes and sins. It’s having the courage to stand alone for what is right. It’s doing the right thing when no one is around. When we are being honest with ourselves and others we are being upright, righteous. It’s…
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Citizenship Is In Heavn
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it, we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 Heaven! I love learning about heaven. It’s our home. The earth is no longer our home. Yes, a temporary home until Jesus returns or we go to heaven. When we choose to live for Christ, we are no longer just citizens on earth but we have new citizenship in heaven. We have become aliens and strangers in this world. In John 17:16, it says: ” They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” We are on a pilgrim journey while we are on this…
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Praying For Each Other
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The Prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. James 5:13-16 Life is hard. There is…
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In Everything By Prayer
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6 Do you ever worry about things? Your job, friends, spouse, children, church, others? A cure to help stop the worry is to pray. Taking your worries to God first helps take the focus off of difficulty of it and puts it on the power of God. With prayer, we renew our trust in God’s faithfulness by giving him all of our anxieties and problems. We can trust that when we give it all to him, He will take care of it and us. When God takes…
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Lord’s Prayer – Part 3
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, be deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen Matthew 6: 9-13 Deliver us from evil: We believers in God will always be a target of Satan’s opposition and attack. We can not deal with Satan on our own. We will need to depend on God for help. We will need to pray consistently for wisdom and…
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Lord’s Prayer – Part 2
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, be deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen Matthew 6: 9-13 Your will be done: When we say your will be done, we are truly saying that we want God’s purpose, plans, and desires to be done in our life. We can know His will through His word and through the Holy Spirit leading us. When we…