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You Can't Bribe Him (a rambleCast) - Deuteronomy 10:17
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For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe. Deuteronomy 10:17 (CSB)
As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received: with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:1-3 (ESV) He asks me to be humble, that means there IS a pathway to humility for me. In the passage, He asks me to be gentle. That means that I CAN be gentle. Lord, please give me the grace to behave in the way you are asking. You say I can do it. I KNOW that I can't do it through a flesh-push. I can only do it by being Spirit controlled. By being filled with the Spirit. May my life as a believer be exemplified by these things. May you rule in my heart. May you give me wisdom when I feel that I have none. When I have nothing left. May I depend upon You. Lord, I ask for your grace upon today. Blessed be the name of the Lord. He asks me to be patient. That means that I can be patient. I can know that...
No creature is hidden from him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account. Hebrews 4:13 Let Me Know When You're Ready to Talk Why do I try to hide from God sometimes? It makes no sense. I mean, I know that people act like their parents who act like their parents and so on. When I think I'm hiding something from God, that's me acting like Father Adam. He disobeyed God and hid. Then, when he got caught, he tried to talk his way out. "The woman you gave me, gave it to me." I can struggle with greed, jealousy, lust, whininess, rage, resentment, and more on any given day. And when that's my behavior, I think He says, "Let me know when you're ready to talk." No creature is hidden from Him. I can't run from Him. I can only lie to myself and think I'm hiding. Right, so I can give Him the silent treatment. I Am Naked and Exposed Plus, I am naked and exposed. He sees it all. I can't dress it up. I...
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