A word from a "friend"

VERSES FOR YOU (PART ONE)....

Hi guys, thanks for reading my articles and thanks for your votes too. I'm sorry I took so long to upload another article; No internet access. Anyways i'm back now. I missed you guys and the excitement of having more readers. I just thought of writing out Bible verses relating to issues we have in the society today, to let us know that these things are actually in the Bible and not just mere rules.

"Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." 1 corinthians 10: 11-12;

SEXUAL SINS---- 1 Cor. 6:18-20; "flee fornication. What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."

WORRY---- Matthew 6:34; 7:7-11; "Take therefore no thought for the morrow;"

SELF WORTH---- Psalm 139:13-18; "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works."

PRIDE---- Romans 12:3; "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he aught to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."

DIFFICULT TIMES---- Romans 5:20-21; "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord."

TIMES WHEN YOU WANT TO GIVE UP---- Luke 9:62; Revelation 3:11; "No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." "Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown."

ENCOURAGEMENT----1 Samuel 30:6; "But David encouraged himself in the Lord." P.S the Lord is the best friend that can give you encouragement.

LYING---- Revelation 21:8; Col 3:9; "...and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds."

IMMEDIATE REPENTANCE---- Matthew 14:30; "But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me." Note: you should read the whole story for better understanding, Peter wanted to walk on water like Jesus, and Jesus said come. Peter was walking with his eyes on Jesus, but when his eyes shifted to the storm he began to sink and immediately he cried Lord, save me. When we fall into sin and begin to sink after realizing, there shouldn't be any opportunity for condemnation or guilt, we should immediately turn to God to be saved. Yes you will be sober, but not guilty to the point of running from God's presence. God is always ready to forgive. Joel 2:13; "And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil."

ANGER---- Psalm 37:8; Proverbs 15:18; 16:32; 22:8; Ephesians 4:31; "Cease from anger, and forsake wrath." "A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife." "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you with all malice."

DISOBEDIENCE---- Col 3:6; 5:6; "For these things sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience."

SOFT ANSWERS---- Proverbs 15:1; "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."

FILTHY COMMUNICATION---- Colossians 3:8; Ephesians 4:29; "But now ye also put off all these... filthy communication out of your mouth." "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."

WHEN TO RETREAT (WISDOM)---- John 11:54; "Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples."

TRUE WISDOM AND SUCCESS CAN ONLY BE GOTTEN FROM GOD---- 1 Kings 4:32&34; "...And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were five thousand and five. And there came of all people to hear the Wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom."

LUKEWARMNESS----Revelation 3:15-16; "...So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth." (written in red letters)