1 Thessalonians 1:2-3, “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father, your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” Is there someone that comes to your mind automatically that you thank God …
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You Don’t Have To Be Famous To Be An Influence And Used By God
Colossians 4:7-12, “Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother, and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, and with him Onesimus, our faithful and …
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Try Adding More Salt For Gracious Charm
Colossians 4:5-6, “Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” Beliefnet.com listed several outstanding testimonies of Christians that set new Olympic records and used the platform to glorify God at …
Plain As Day And Plain As The Nose On Your Face
Colossians 4:2, “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.” Did you ever notice that you pray more often when you have a problem than when you don’t? Why is that? When you pray, do you pray more about concerns and situations or thanking God for various blessings? My husband and I are …
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Pray Hard and Work Hard
Colossians 3:23-24, “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.” Thomas Edison said, …
Intentions With The Right Solutions
Colossians 3:17, “And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Every morning I write out my list of plans for that day on a notepad. I have Proverbs 16:3 in the heading of my list of tasks for …
Finding The Right Melody
Colossians 3:16, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Webster’s American Dictionary of the KJV dictionary definition for dwell states: “Dwell imports a residence of some continuance. We use abide for the resting of a …
Dress In The Right Wardrobe
Colossians 3:12-14, “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything …
Put Them Away – Don’t Take Them Out!
Colossians 3:8-10, “But now you must put them all away: anger, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its …
There Is More Than Just What Is Right In Front Of You
Colossians 3:1-2, “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” Do you take life far too seriously? I tend to. What is currently pressing …
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