Daily and Weekly Christian Inspiration
HE TOOK ME AND PLACED ME IN HIM
BUT
IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO ABIDE THERE
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Romans 11:17 And thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree.
Do you always keep your word?
Only then will you know His character is being formed in you.
If our characters are being conformed to His Image we will keep promises we make.
Numbers 23:19 God is not human, that He should lie, not a human being, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
You cannot stop a bird from flying over your head BUT you can prevent it from making a nest in your hair!
Refuse to let evil thoughts find a resting place in you!
2 Corinthians10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
If the fountain of life within the believer ceases to flow the problem is not due to the inlet; it is the outlet which has become obstructed.©MJB
John 7:37-38 If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.