Category: Proverbs
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Overworked and Nothing Left Over
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. – Proverbs 23:4 (NIV) Riches are fleeting. If you don’t believe me, just look at how this preceding verse is followed up. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off…
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Profitable for a Purpose
In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty. -Proverbs 14:23 Are you benefiting from all of your labor? Do you see others who are blessed based on what you have done? You may be a blessing to others beyond yourself due to all that you put into your pursuits. It…
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Profitable for a Purpose
In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty. -Proverbs 14:23 Are you benefiting from all of your labor? Do you see others who are blessed based on what you have done? You may be a blessing to others beyond yourself due to all that you put into your pursuits. It…
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Keep Count in 2012
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? – Luke 14:28 (KJV) In 2012, you had better keep count of some things. You should keep count and keep track throughout the year. Look back at how God answered prayers and provided…
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Shared Words
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. – Proverbs 15:22 (NIV) Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. – Proverbs 11:14 (KJV) Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. – Romans 14:1 (NIV) We who are…
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Keep the Faith and Keep Going
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. – Philippians 3:12 (NKJV) I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3:14…
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Business Over Busyness
Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right. Proverbs 20:11 (NIV) There is a vast difference between right and wrong actions. If it applies to children, you can sure bet it applies to us as adults. That is especially true when it comes down to the “work…
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Answers and Assurance
“The chief purpose of prayer is that God be glorified in the answer.”– R.A. Torrey Assurance comes in God’s answers. We ask of the Lord and in the Lord’s name. The expectation is that we have faith in Him for the answers. We may be on edge or at our wit’s end. No matter what…
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With or Without God
With or Without God In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.- Judges 17:6; 21:25 Which way will we go? Will we go with God or go out on our own? Which way will we go? Will we stick with God or strike out on…
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