READ IT ALOUD: Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you (James 4:8a). PONDER IT PRAYERFULLY: Jesus is the Son of God. He is as close to God as it gets. He is, in fact, God. He is sinless. Yet while He was on earth, He found it expedient to separate Himself from His disciples and all men and spend time with His Father. How...
read moreThe Word: Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7b). Prayerful Contemplation: For two individuals to fight, they must both wield a reasonable amount of strength. It is common for two 25 year-olds to fight. It is also common for toddlers to fight among themselves. But it would not be normal for a 25 year old woman and...
read moreThe Word: Submit yourselves therefore to God (James 4:7a). Prayerful Contemplation: Submission, by definition, is yielding or surrendering to the will, authority, power or desires of another. Every moment of my life depicts a submission to one authority. At every single point in time, I yield myself to the will, authority, power or...
read moreJames 4 1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your...
read moreA continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike (Prov 27:15). A woman of virtue should not be an irritating, continual dropping. It is in a woman’s nature and capacity to either light up a room, or ruin everybody’s mood. It is possible to get people to do things when we want them to be done,...
read moreThe Word: …his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him (John 9:2-3) Prayerful Contemplation: Murphy’s law states that everything that can go...
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