"The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way" (Ps. 25:9 KJV). Leadership requires the fruit of meekness, because you can't always cut folk's head off because they didn't do it right. I learned a long time ago that you have to give people...
"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it"...
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14 KJV). The Holy Spirit pulls out each one of the fruit of the spirit when the flesh wants to go in the opposite direction. The flesh wants to fight, and the fruit of love will come...
"...Add to brotherly kindness love...and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love" (2 Peter 1:7 AMP). This charity, or Christian love, is the God-kind of love. This is the kind of love God functions in. It is unselfish, and it always operates in...
"...And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity" (2 Peter 1:7 KJV). Kindness is one of the most precious gifts you can give to an individual. In today's society the norm is not kindness. The norm is to get revenge and retaliation. But...
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; "Which sometime were disobedient, when...
"And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;" (2 Peter 1:5-6 KJV). Today, God's request from us is godliness. He wants His children to...
"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger" (Prov. 15:1 KJV). Yesterday I was interviewed by some students for a government class at Cass Tech High School. They asked some seriously intelligent questions. They were some very intelligent...
How much time do you think you have spent in waiting rooms? If you add up all the hours that a person has spent waiting, it could probably add up to a lifetime. However, one reason people hate waiting rooms so much is because they hate to wait. But I've got news...
Paul said that Jesus gave you mercy so that others could see the pattern of longsuffering in you. Now, you are the pattern that unbelievers and other young believers are looking at. They are looking at the pattern you set by how you handle situations when people do...
"We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification" (Rom. 15:1-2 KJV). You have a responsibility to pray for others. Wouldn't you like somebody to get...
"Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months" (James 5:17 KJV). While we tend to think that the men and women in the Bible were perfect...
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