A SELFISH MAN'S VERSION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER

A SELFISH MAN'S VERSION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER

While our lips utter the Lord’s Prayer, our hearts often say another.

It goes something like this:

My servant, Who art in heaven,

Hollow is Thy name.

My own kingdom come; my own will be done,

On earth, and later in heaven.

Give me this day--gimme, gimme, gimme.

And forgive me my trespasses,

But don’t expect me to forgive others.

Bail me out when I give in to temptation,

And deliver me from the consequences of sin,

For in my kingdom I will wield power,

And expect glory forever.  A man.

From the gospel according to Becky Wall
The Queen James Version
(Based on Matt. 6:9-13 KJV)

FOOLISH AND STUPID ARGUMENTS

FOOLISH AND STUPID ARGUMENTS

There is an old saying that most of you have heard: "Never discuss religion or politics." It's Presidential campaign time again and facebook is set on fire with arguments. The Bible is a good guide for how to approach presenting your views to another person or persons. These are scripture verses but the same principle applies today in other venues.

"How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?" Job 6:25

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Job 15:3

7 "Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse. 8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you. 9 Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning." Proverbs 9:7-9

13 "To answer before listening—that is folly and shame." Proverbs 18:13

It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. Proverbs 20:3

"Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death is one who deceives their neighborand says, “I was only joking!” Proverbs 26:18-19

"No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil." Isaiah 59:4

"Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly?" I Corinthians 3:1-3

18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”; 20 and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.” 21 So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God. I Corinthians 3:18-23

"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." II Corinthians 10:5

"I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments." Colossians 2:4

"Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels." II Timothy 2:23

"But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless." Titus 3:9 (The law being mainly the first 5 books of the Old Testament.)

"What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill (or try to kill the President). You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures (in this case your choice causes)..."James 4:1-3

"But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God." Job 13:3 We just know God is on our side. He may not want the best candidate to win simply to humble the nation and show the nation that we need God to rule as He has in former centuries.

"Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?" Job 15:3

"A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel." Proverbs 15:18

"Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out." Proverbs 17:14

"Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin;..." Proverbs 17:19

"An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels." Proverbs 18:1

"It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel." Proverbs 20:3

"Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended." Proverbs 22:10

"Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife." Proverbs 25:24

"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. 6 Sending a message by the hands of a fool is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison." Proverbs 26:4-6

17 "Like one who grabs a stray dog by the ears is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own." Proverbs 26:17

"Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down." Proverbs 26:20

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind ...Romans 14:1-13 ESV

"You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly?..." I Corinthians 3:3

"Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, ..." I Timothy 3:1-2 This verse is talking about elders in the church but it also applies to those in authority.

"These are the things you are to teach and insist on. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain." I Timothy 6:1-5

...guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have departed from the faith. I Timothy 6:20-21

Regarding false teachers: "Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen." II Timothy 2:14

"And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful." II Timothy 2:24

"What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?" James 4:1

What do you desire to happen in the election? Do you want to win the argument for the sake of winning or personal victory? "You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God." James 4:2

Compiled by Becky Wall
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND ANIMALS

 

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND ANIMALS

Genesis 9:2 - "The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. (God speaking to Noah)

2 Kings 17:25 "When they first lived there, they did not worship the Lord; so he sent lions among them and they killed some of the people." God is in ultimate control of the creatures.

Psalm 34:10 "The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing." "Lions" refers to men in this case, I believe.

Psalm 104:21 "The lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

Psalm 145:16 KJV - "Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing"

Ps. 145:21 NIV - "My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever."

Psalm 104:27 - "All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time."

Psalm 136:25 - "He gives food to every creature. His love endures forever."

Psalm 145:21 - "My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever."

Proverbs 28:1 - "The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion."

Ecclesiastes 9:4 "Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!"

Ecclesiastes 10:20 - "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird in the sky may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say."

Isaiah 11:6-7 "The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox."

Isaiah 34:14  "Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also lie down and find for themselves places of rest."

Isaiah 35:9 "No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there. But only the redeemed will walk there,"

Isaiah 65:25 - "The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:39 - “So desert creatures and hyenas will live there, and there the owl will dwell. It will never again be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation."

Ezekiel 38:20 - "The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. 

Daniel 6:22 - " My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight." Daniel was in a lion's den with hungry lions.

Amos 5:19 - "It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him." This sounds like my life.

Hosea 2:18 - "In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety." God has big plans for us and the creatures.

2 Timothy 4:17 - "But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth." The lion's mouth was greatly feared.

2 Peter 2:12 - "But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish."

Compiled by Becky Wall

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A DEMON CALLED PORN

A DEMON CALLED PORN

I am a demon called Porn.

Among powers and principalities I rank high.

A host of fallen angels serve me;

We answer to the father of lies.

Few know that I am addictive;

I’ve hidden my secret well.

I’ll torture mankind on earth,

Then finish the job in hell.

I display my images across the screens,

Of movies, videos and tv.

On the pages of books and magazines,

To be viewed in secrecy.

I prey on young boys; they’re a delicacy to me--

Young men for whom God has a plan.

I’ll lure each with shock, seduce him with pleasure,

Suck his life, and leave the shell of a man.

I sit on a throne, crowned in great splendor,

And with spiritually dead bones pick my teeth.

But when knees hit the floor, my power is no more.

Thanks to Christ, whose crown was a wreath.

Becky Wall

See "Also Lustful and Perverse Thoughts": https://beckyowall.blogspot.com/2022/10/lustful-and-perverse-thoughts.html

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