Devotions in the How Do We Live Godly Lives? series
- Studying the Scriptures cleanses bad thoughts.
- We cleanse our thoughts when return to having a strong relationship with God.
- Meditating on God helps us in the sanctification process.
- Our thoughts are a good indicator of who we are.
- Meditation puts us in the presence of the Sovereign God and our Redeeming Savior.
- Contemplating the beauty and majesty of our world can calm our thoughts and give us peace.
- Praising God helps us to control our thoughts.
- Humility helps keep prideful thoughts at bay.
- Evil thoughts come from the heart.
- The Holy Spirit is more powerful than Satan, meaning we can conquer Satan.
- Jesus chose us; we have to choose Him.
- Focusing on God helps us to look past the world and to repent from our sins.
- God calls us to work to provide for ourselves.
- God calls us to work to know Him.
- God calls us to salvation for differing lengths.
- God’s salvation is offered to all regardless of what we do.
- Scriptures are a book that we read that can change us.
- Jesus is the focus of Scriptures.
- The Word of God is — and will be — used to judge us.
- Our conscience governs our thoughts and could be good or evil.
- God sees everything, even our thoughts.
- When we choose the evil, God will judge us.
- Our hearts are the root, so we must guard them, also.
- There are many ways in which our lips can get us in trouble.
- God tells us several times in His Word to evaluate ourselves based on His standards.
- It is important that we do not lose the initial joy of our conversion.
- Meditating is when we evaluate our lives by thinking things through.
- We use our evaluation to educate our thoughts to increase our worship and use our worship to educate our thoughts..
- We need to make sure we reverence the Lord
- We need to make sure our image of ourselves is correct.
- We need to keep our speech honoring God.
- We show God that we love Him by hating evil.
- We resist the devil by submitting to God.
- We resist sin by evaluating ourselves with a watchful eye.
- We watch for God to work in our inward and outward lives.
- Most of all, we need to actively watch for Jesus’ return.
- Watching and waiting does not mean doing nothing.
- Prayer is our connection with the spirit world.
- Prayer done the right way pays God the reverence He is due.
- Prayer helps us to change our lives so we can resist sin.
- Watching alone doesn’t cut it, and neither does praying alone — we have to watch and pray.
- We think we are fighting Satan, but we aren’t.
- In order to chose right from wrong, we need to watch in and prayer for discernment.
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