Friday, September 25, 2015

Do you have any troubles?

The Bible tells us:
 
God has promised to deliver you --- when you are in trouble:
Psalm 50:15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.
Psalm 91:15 He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.   
 
How to avoid trouble:
Proverbs 21:23 Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Psalm 41:1 Blessed is he who considers the poor; The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
 
Others are often helpless to help --- when you are in trouble:
Psalm 22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Psalm 60:11 Give us help from trouble: for vain (useless) is the help of man.
 
What to do --- when you are in trouble:
Psalm 86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me.
Psalm 34:17 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalm 107:13  Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses.
 
You must pray --- when you are in trouble:
Psalm 142:2 I poured out my complaint before him; I declared to him my trouble.
Psalm 31:9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
 
You must testify --- about God delivering you from trouble:
Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble.
 
God testifies about delivering you: Psalm 81:7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you.
 
You must exercise faith in God --- when you are in trouble:
Psalm 9:9 The Lord will be a refuge….in times of trouble.
Psalm 138:7 Though I live in the midst of trouble, You will revive me….and Your right hand will save me.
 
Today's the day to be delivered speedily from all your troubles:
Psalm 102:2 Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline Your ear to me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

 

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Are you a friend of this world?

 
James 4:4 Whoever is a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
 
The Christian must: 
  1. Live free from the cares of the world (Matthew 13:22; Luke 21:34-36)
  2. Not gain the world at the expense of their soul (Matthew 16:26)
  3. Not offend others as the world does (Matthew 18:7)
  4. Not be of it (John 15:19; John 17:14,16)
  5. Not love their life in the world (John 12:25)
  6. Be delivered from the world (Galatians 1:4)
  7. Be crucified to the world (Galatians 6:14)
  8. Shine as a light in the world (Phil. 2:15)
  9. Deny its lusts; live godly in it (Titus 2:12)
  10. Be unspotted from the world (James 1:27)
  11. Not be friends with the world (James 4:4)
  12. Escape the pollution and corruption of the world (2 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 2:20)
  13. Not love the world, neither the things that are in the world (1 John 2:15-17)
  14. Be like Christ in the world (1 John 4:17)
  15. Overcome the world (1 John 5:4-5)
  16. Be chosen out of it (John 15:19; John 17:6)
  17. Be not conformed to it (Romans 12:2)
  18. Be dead to its ways (Col. 2:20)