Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. – Ephesians 6:13 You need the whole armour, just to be able to withstand the attacks. You need everything God’s given you in order to resist the opposition you’re …
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Confidence and patience
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. – Hebrews 10:35 There’s a connection between your confidence and the reward you seek. Your confidence, not other people’s confidence. Your confidence: that free and fearless, audaciously optimistic, inner certainty of things that nobody else can see. I know that I can do …
Here to help you
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. – Hebrews 13:6 Regardless of why you need help, God is your Helper. Your fault, somebody else’s, a stupid error on your part, you should have known better, “I can’t believe you let …
Scandalous love
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. – Jeremiah 31:3 God’s love for you is scandalous. He loves you with no regard for other people’s opinions of you or even of your own opinions of you. Because …
If you want to have more followers
And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. – 1 Samuel 22:2 If you want to have followers, make sure you’re heading somewhere …
I am Groot
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. – Ephesians 3:19 I am Groot. That’s all that Groot appears to be saying. And yet that one phrase, with all its subtle and blatant inflections contains the entire expression of all that is …
Quietness and confidence
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. – Isaiah 30:15 Quietness and confidence. The two go together, along with “returning and rest”. The real problem is all the noise, chatter …
Hold on for dear life
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. – Deuteronomy 11:18 The reason for all the shaking, and shouting and social media bombardment and distraction and seduction and discouragement and …
Lub dub
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. – Joshua 1:8 This heart of your …
After 3 years
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. – Galatians 1:18 Where will you be 3 years from now? How about a year, or 7 or 25 from now? As Ramit Sethi often says: the time is going to pass anyway. The only question is …