The “One Anothers” In Scripture
Greet one another (Rom. 16:16, 1 Cor. 16:20, 2 Cor. 13:12, 1 Pet. 5:14)
Comfort one another (1 Thess. 4:18)
Forgive one another (Col. 3:13)
Build one another up (Rom. 15:2; 1 Thess. 5:11)
Serve one another (Gal. 5:13)
Bear one another’s burdens (Gal. 6:2)
Encourage one another (Heb. 10:25)
Meet with one another (Heb. 10:25)
Be kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving towards one another (Eph. 4:32,
Rom. 12:10)
Receive (welcome) one another as Christ received us (Rom. 15:7)
Care for one another (1 Cor. 12:25)
Minister one to another (1 Pet. 4:10)
Show hospitality to one another (1 Pet. 4:9)
Pray for one another (James 5:16).
Don’t wait for others to do these things—or criticize your church because people
don’t . . . you do these things. (Revive Our Hearts)
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Day 23 Listen
We need to just be quiet and listen! Alot of problems I have gotten my self into are because I didn't listen to God, I didn't listen to a loved one, or I didn't listen quietly enough and totally misunderstood something.
Be a listening wife, a listening friend, a listening Christian.
Maybe God is allowing a husband, friends, or kids to tell us something about our relationships with their actions or words. We cannot be so quick to jump up on the defense. If are are always that way we will build a stubborn unteachable heart and that is not humble. Maybe the things that go on are your husband, friends or kids way of trying to tell us about problems in specific areas.
If we are married and our husband is upset about our attitude or something about us.
We should try to consider his accusations carefully. Consider them without a defensive attitude pray and listen and think about them and evaluate quietly.... If there is any truth at all to them, ask for forgiveness and grow from it.
Everyone that is in our life is put there because that was Gods plan. What if the problems we encounter with others, the let downs and all of that won’t stop or our marriage won’t change until Gods work begins in us. All the time not just on some days…and consistently. See what kind of people would we be if we didn't listen to the people around us listen to the situations that we are apart of and change and grow based on that. I really believe we have to have certain people and relationships in our life to deal with so that God can heal us, and transform the way we handle life. People can bring out our sin in us. Then we can mold into how we should be and respond in life as far as glorifying him goes…If we can't see that, listen and make changes then it’s like saying "God I’m being so perfect and loving all the time so why is he or she still acting this way"?
Be a listening wife, a listening friend, a listening Christian.
Maybe God is allowing a husband, friends, or kids to tell us something about our relationships with their actions or words. We cannot be so quick to jump up on the defense. If are are always that way we will build a stubborn unteachable heart and that is not humble. Maybe the things that go on are your husband, friends or kids way of trying to tell us about problems in specific areas.
If we are married and our husband is upset about our attitude or something about us.
We should try to consider his accusations carefully. Consider them without a defensive attitude pray and listen and think about them and evaluate quietly.... If there is any truth at all to them, ask for forgiveness and grow from it.
Everyone that is in our life is put there because that was Gods plan. What if the problems we encounter with others, the let downs and all of that won’t stop or our marriage won’t change until Gods work begins in us. All the time not just on some days…and consistently. See what kind of people would we be if we didn't listen to the people around us listen to the situations that we are apart of and change and grow based on that. I really believe we have to have certain people and relationships in our life to deal with so that God can heal us, and transform the way we handle life. People can bring out our sin in us. Then we can mold into how we should be and respond in life as far as glorifying him goes…If we can't see that, listen and make changes then it’s like saying "God I’m being so perfect and loving all the time so why is he or she still acting this way"?
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Day 22 Forgive
The root of bitterness allowed to grow in us becomes a terrible poison. It really does. I have resentment and bitterness I am trying to let go of and I can feel it like a poison in my heart. It waits for a wrong move so it can just well back up and take over our hearts.
There are people who continue to fail us, they fail to be loving, they say awful things and they just let us down so much it hurts. But what has God commanded us to do? Love and forgive. Only then are we free from the bondage that man can put on our hearts. In every circumstance and situation of life, God has grace. If we fail to receive that grace, the option is that we become bitter. Let's drown in that ocean of Grace!
Forgive. Do not become bitter. (Matt. 18:21-35, Luke 6:37b, Eph. 4:32, Col. 3:12-13, Heb. 12:14-15)
If someone has something against you, seek to be reconciled to him. (Matt. 5:23-24)
Do not return evil for evil. (Rom. 12:17-19)
Love your enemies and pray for them. (Prov. 24:17; Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:35)
There are people who continue to fail us, they fail to be loving, they say awful things and they just let us down so much it hurts. But what has God commanded us to do? Love and forgive. Only then are we free from the bondage that man can put on our hearts. In every circumstance and situation of life, God has grace. If we fail to receive that grace, the option is that we become bitter. Let's drown in that ocean of Grace!
Forgive. Do not become bitter. (Matt. 18:21-35, Luke 6:37b, Eph. 4:32, Col. 3:12-13, Heb. 12:14-15)
If someone has something against you, seek to be reconciled to him. (Matt. 5:23-24)
Do not return evil for evil. (Rom. 12:17-19)
Love your enemies and pray for them. (Prov. 24:17; Matt. 5:44; Luke 6:35)
Friday, August 6, 2010
Day 21 Choose to love for Him
Everyone elses actions, let downs and failures aside, “What are you doing? Where are you?” in your walk with God?
Scripture has told us very straight forward that man will fail us. God is our only constant. Yet we still let peoples actions change us, change our hearts and attitudes everyday. We lose love for people all the time because of things they do or don't do for us. I'll say this is a huge battle for me.
Psalm 62:5 God says to us. “My soul, waits only for God; for my expectation is from him” . It has to come from Him. Start looking to Jesus to meet every expectation. But also look at Jesus not to meet our needs, but for us to be there to meet Jesus’ needs—whatever He wants of us.
Remember if we love and do everything we do for husbands,kids,friends,ministries, the least of them, If we do all of it FOR THE LORD then it will be way harder to complain or feel let down And it will bring peace to our life. His promises are unable to be measured compared to any love or gratitude that you will receive from any human.
Love is a choice but it's also a commandment. It is a choice because we have free will. But once we choose to follow God then we should follow all of him. God wants us to love him and love people. So if we have chosen God and chosen love then the hard part is we should love without anything expected in return or love without the loved one having to earn it.
Last I want to add something that came to me a minute ago. If we are people who cannot love or have really bad attitudes because of what others do to us. Then what kind of representation of a loving God are we showing the world? Are we showing them that they cannot mess up and come to God? That they have to be perfect to be a Christian? Or are we showing them the kind of forgiving love our God has for his children who mess up all the time but are always loved and forgiven? See he already died for all of that.
Scripture has told us very straight forward that man will fail us. God is our only constant. Yet we still let peoples actions change us, change our hearts and attitudes everyday. We lose love for people all the time because of things they do or don't do for us. I'll say this is a huge battle for me.
Psalm 62:5 God says to us. “My soul, waits only for God; for my expectation is from him” . It has to come from Him. Start looking to Jesus to meet every expectation. But also look at Jesus not to meet our needs, but for us to be there to meet Jesus’ needs—whatever He wants of us.
Remember if we love and do everything we do for husbands,kids,friends,ministries, the least of them, If we do all of it FOR THE LORD then it will be way harder to complain or feel let down And it will bring peace to our life. His promises are unable to be measured compared to any love or gratitude that you will receive from any human.
Love is a choice but it's also a commandment. It is a choice because we have free will. But once we choose to follow God then we should follow all of him. God wants us to love him and love people. So if we have chosen God and chosen love then the hard part is we should love without anything expected in return or love without the loved one having to earn it.
Last I want to add something that came to me a minute ago. If we are people who cannot love or have really bad attitudes because of what others do to us. Then what kind of representation of a loving God are we showing the world? Are we showing them that they cannot mess up and come to God? That they have to be perfect to be a Christian? Or are we showing them the kind of forgiving love our God has for his children who mess up all the time but are always loved and forgiven? See he already died for all of that.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Day 20 faith and joy
We want to work towards really living by faith. I waste moments in life worrying or fearing things and contemplating all the time. At the end of that worrying what did it ever do for me? Where there is fear, there is not faith. Where there is STRONG faith, fear will dissapear . We can't walk by faith and live in fear. We can't walk in fear and live by faith.
Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Don’t worry about anything; pray about everything. (Phil. 4:6; Luke 12:29-31)
Hebrews 13:6
So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"
We have to be grateful people. A lack of being thankful creates a joyless heart.
God never said if we follow him that our lives would be perfect. He said if we follow him he would always walk with us.
In everything give thanks. Count it all joy when you fall into various trials. Rejoice in the Lord. (1 Thess. 5:17; Ps. 68:3; Eph. 5:20; Phil. 4:4; James 1:2-3)
Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Don’t worry about anything; pray about everything. (Phil. 4:6; Luke 12:29-31)
Hebrews 13:6
So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"
We have to be grateful people. A lack of being thankful creates a joyless heart.
God never said if we follow him that our lives would be perfect. He said if we follow him he would always walk with us.
In everything give thanks. Count it all joy when you fall into various trials. Rejoice in the Lord. (1 Thess. 5:17; Ps. 68:3; Eph. 5:20; Phil. 4:4; James 1:2-3)
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Day 19 Follow the greatest command
Scripture speaks for itself...The two most important commandments to God:
Mark 12: 28-31
One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
Jesus replied, "The most important commandment is this: 'Listen, O Israel! The LORD our God is the one and only LORD.
And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.'
The second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
Mark 12: 28-31
One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
Jesus replied, "The most important commandment is this: 'Listen, O Israel! The LORD our God is the one and only LORD.
And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.'
The second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Day 18 Teaching Kids cont...
Proverbs 27 She carefully watches everything in her household
It is important for moms and dads to teach their children the ways of God. We do this by example but also time for sitting down and talking just like we do our own bible studies. It talks about it alot in the old testament.
Start with the principles of God’s Word.
•ownership: Your body is not your own; it belongs to God once you’re a child of God.
•Lordship: Jesus is Lord over all.
•citizenship: If you’re a child of God, you belong to a different kingdom; you don’t belong to this world.
•stewardship: God has entrusted some things to you, like a body. He’s entrusted beauty to you, and you have to use that in ways that are pleasing to the Lord.
(revive our hearts)
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5) so that your obedience is not just rigid and legalistic, but your obedience springs out of a heart of love for God.
“These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
Deuteronomy 6:7
, “Talk [about these things] when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” All day, every day, be naturally communicating with your children the ways of God
We need to be intentional about training them to think biblically and helping them develop a heart for God so that it's not just a list of rules.
Help your kids know to share with you verbally and to have conversations about everything, it may be tiring, but it keeps the door open so in those crazy teen years, you can talk about all the issues that come up.
It is important for moms and dads to teach their children the ways of God. We do this by example but also time for sitting down and talking just like we do our own bible studies. It talks about it alot in the old testament.
Start with the principles of God’s Word.
•ownership: Your body is not your own; it belongs to God once you’re a child of God.
•Lordship: Jesus is Lord over all.
•citizenship: If you’re a child of God, you belong to a different kingdom; you don’t belong to this world.
•stewardship: God has entrusted some things to you, like a body. He’s entrusted beauty to you, and you have to use that in ways that are pleasing to the Lord.
(revive our hearts)
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:5) so that your obedience is not just rigid and legalistic, but your obedience springs out of a heart of love for God.
“These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
Deuteronomy 6:7
, “Talk [about these things] when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” All day, every day, be naturally communicating with your children the ways of God
We need to be intentional about training them to think biblically and helping them develop a heart for God so that it's not just a list of rules.
Help your kids know to share with you verbally and to have conversations about everything, it may be tiring, but it keeps the door open so in those crazy teen years, you can talk about all the issues that come up.
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