May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. —Psalm 29:4 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. —Psalm 20:7 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. —Proverbs 4:23              How is your “heart?”  That is, how are you on the inside?  We are to be on guard because “everything (we) do flows from it.”  So, do an evaluation of your life.  What are you doing?  Why are you doing it?  Are you trusting “in the name of the Lord our God” or is your trust placed elsewhere? …

Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. —Matthew 15:6 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. —Matthew 15:9 The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart.  The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. —Psalm 19:8              Beware that you are not nullifying “the word of God for the sake of your tradition.”  Now here is a dangerous thing.  Jesus said, “They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.”  Watch out for those that go beyond God’s Word for the sake of their “tradition” and are teaching “merely human rules.”              To “nullity”…

God has uncovered your servants’ guilt.” —Genesis 44:16              It is true that “you may be sure that your sin will find you out’ (Numbers 32:23).  Either in this life or at the judgment, your sin will be known because “Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:13).              As a follower of Jesus, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (I John 1:9).  Sin for the believer breaks fellowship with God, not relationship.  So, as…

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.” Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.  Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout Egypt. —Genesis 41:44-46 I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. —Psalms 18:1-2             …

One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and…

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.  But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.  For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” —Matthew 12:25-37 Do not accuse anyone for no reason— when they have done you no harm. —Proverb 3:30              There are those who will make false accusations against you to accomplish what they desire.  Even though God says, “Do not accuse anyone…

“But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.” —Matthew 11:19 By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. —Proverbs 3:19-20              Jesus said, “For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander” (Matthew 15:19).  The actions or deeds of a person comes from who that person is on the inside.  There are actions, as mentioned here, that are evil that start with evil thoughts.              On the other hand, there are deeds that are proved right because they are done by faith and…

But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. —Psalm 13:5              We are to love God and love people (Matthew 22:37-40).  I love You Lord and “I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.”  Jesus, it utterly astounds me when I think what You have done for me.  Your willingness to come to this planet as a baby, live among us for 33 years, allow Your own creation to kill You, then rise from the dead, appear to Your disciples over a period of 40 days, ascend back to heaven, sending Your Holy Spirit to dwell in Your disciples and will…

Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.” —Genesis 31:3 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. —Matthew 10:14 Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race. —Psalm 12:1              Jacob was faithful to what our Lord God spoke to him.  When he was told to “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you,” he did so.  There are those who…