A spiritual giant about morning prayer:"The people who have done the most for God have been early on their knees. If God is not first in our thoughts and our efforts in the morning, He will not be in the last place the remainder of the day." E. M. Bounds
‘Truth Tabernacle’ Starkville MS
PRAYER - "The Prayer Of The Upright Is His Delight"
Does God love to hear your voice? Judge your tongue. Soft answers turn away wrath. Grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the righteous uses knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue is a breach in the spirit. The words of the pure are pleasant words, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things. The prayer of the upright is God's delight.
Proverbs 15:29 - "The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous."
PRINCIPALS - "A Good Man (Loves Instruction)"
Every proverb has the potential of an entire sermon. Every wise saying could be elaborated and amplified many times over. But the important thing is to learn the basics. In the end, you will either be wise or foolish, virtuous or shameful, diligent or slack, honorable or despised, true or false, good or bad. "Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge. He that hateth reproof is brutish." Seek to know what is right and strive to be good. Any brute can be bad.
Proverbs 12:2 - "A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn."
PRINCIPLES - "Righteousness Is Right, Wickedness Is Wrong"
Proverbs 11 addresses many topics. God hates false balances, but delights in a just weight. Pride brings shame. Integrity guides the upright. Righteousness directs and delivers a man. Transgressors are headed for trouble. "Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." "The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself." The theme in all the sayings is that righteousness is always right, and wickedness is always wrong.
Proverbs 11:19 - "As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death."
PROPHECIES - "Righteousness Exalteth A Nation"
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Without the fear of God, death and destruction are unavoidable. The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life - an escape from the snares of death. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. Upright men fear the LORD. What is true for the individual is true for the nation. A nation must fear God in righteousness.
Proverbs 14:34 - "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people."
•Every Christian plays a important part in God. Do you know what the most important light is in my house? It’s not the big chandelier in the dining room. It’s the little dinky light I turn on every night so that when I get up to go to the bathroom I don’t fall.
•I have found that it is best for me to set aside time in the morning. Every day is a new day with new challenges and opportunities. I want to start my day plugged into the Power Source for my life. I want to inhale the presence of the Spirit of the only God, Jesus Christ.
•A spiritual giant about morning prayer:"The people who have done the most for God have been early on their knees. If God is not first in our thoughts and our efforts in the morning, He will not be in the last place the remainder of the day." E. M. Bounds
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