FEBRUARY 16-29 DAILY DEVOTIONALS - EVENING

DEVOTIONALS ON THIS PAGE

February 16 – He is Longsuffering Not Wishing That Any Should Perish

February 17 - Let a Person Examine Himself

February 18 – The Genealogy of Christ

February 19 – They Will Have a Form of Godliness

PISCES (The Fishes). The Redeemed blessed though bound.

February 20 to March 20

1. THE BAND—, but binding their great enemy Cetus, the sea monster.

2. ANDROMEDA (The Chained Woman). The Redeemed in their bondage and affliction.

3. CEPHEUS (The King). Their Redeemer coming to rule.

February 20 – This Generation of Vipers

February 21 – A Martyrs Crown – Tying a Hangman's Knot Richard Noose– Rev 14:11

February 22 – In the Midst of an Earthly Trial?

February 23 – The Two Witness - Rev 11

February 24 – The Whole Creation Growneth and Travaileth

February 25 – Lawlessness Shall Be Increased

February 26 – Mystery Babylon

February 27 – Camping in the Form of a Cross - 12 tribes verse

February 28 – The Return of the Nephilim

February 29 – Why Should a Living Man Complain?

Words to Think About...

ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD-BREATHED

"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

- 2 Timothy 3:16-17

FEBRUARY 16

He is Longsuffering Not Wishing That Any Should Perish

"The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance." - 2 Peter 3:9

CONSIDER THE LONGSUFFERING OF OUR LORD

"And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked."

- 2 Peter 3:15-17

THE LORD IS COMPASSIONATE AND GRACIOUS

"Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth."

- Exodus 34:6

THE LORD LONGS TO BE GRACIOUS WITH YOU

"Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him."

- Isaiah 30:18

ENDURED WITH MUCH PATIENCE

"What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?"

- Romans 9:22

YOU BORE WITH THEM FOR MANY YEARS

“However, You bore with them for many years, And admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands."

- Nehemiah 9:30

MY MASTER IS NOT COMING FOR A LONG TIME

"But if that evil slave says in his heart, 'My master is not coming for a long time,' and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know."

- Matthew 24:48-51

THE SENTENCE OF EVIL IS NOT EXECUTED QUICKLY

"Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil."

- Ecclesiastes 8:11

FORGAVE THEIR INIQUITY AND DID NOT DESTROY THEM

"But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; and often He restrained His anger and did not arouse all His wrath."

- Psalm 78:38

BECAUSE OF YOUR STUBBORNESS AND UNREPENTED HEART

"But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God."

- Romans 2:5

MIGHT DEMONSTRATE HIS PERFECT PATIENCE

"Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life."

- 1 Timothy 1:16

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Words to Think About...

THE PATIENCE OF GOD KEPT WAITING

"Who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water."

- 1 Peter 3:20

I DELAY MY WRATH

“For the sake of My name I delay My wrath, And for My praise I restrain it for you, in order not to cut you off."

- Isaiah 48:9

HE IS GRACIOUS AND COMPASSIONATE

"And rend your heart and not your garments.” Now return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness and relenting of evil."

- Joel 2:13

HIS KINDNESS AND TOLERANCE

"Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?"

- Romans 2:4

THE LORD IS SLOW TO ANGER

"The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generations."

- Numbers 14:18

SINS PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED

"Whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed."

- Romans 3:25

BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL DEEDS

"So the Lord was no longer able to endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations which you have committed; thus your land has become a ruin, an object of horror and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day."

- Jeremiah 44:22

GOD IS MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS

"But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth."

- Psalm 86:15

FEBRUARY 17

Let a Person Examine Himself

"Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup." - 1 Corinthians 11:28

THE PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS PERSON HAS GREAT POWER

"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working."

- James 5:16

A PERSON IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY WORKS

"Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified."

- Galatians 2:16

THE PERSON WHO BEARS AND SUFFERS

"The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is the sum of a Christian man."

- John Wesley (1703-1791) English Cleric and Minister

WHAT GOES OUT OF THE MOUTH THAT DEFILES A PERSON

"It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

- Matthew 15:11

WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT WE TO BE

"Are you ready to go at once straight into heaven, if the gates were thrown open? What manner of persons ought we to be to say it! Are we walking in a way perfectly consistent with stepping tonight at once into the glory, to be at home in the Father's house?"

- G. V. Wigram (1805-1879) English Biblical Scholar

FOR THE PERSON THAT STIRS UP DIVISION

"As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him."

- Titus 3:10

THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PERSONS

"There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin."

- Leonard Ravenhill (1907-1994) English Christian Evangelist

BETTER IS A POOR PERSON WHO WALKS IN INTEGRITY

"Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool."

- Proverbs 19:1

LET EVERY PERSON BE QUICK TO HEAR

"Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger."

- James 1:19

IF A PERSON TURNS TO MEDIUMS

“If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people."

- Leviticus 20:6

EVERY REGENERATE PERSON IS THE POSSESSOR OF TWO NATURES

"The Scriptures teach that every regenerate person is the possessor of two natures: one, received by natural birth, which is wholly and hopelessly bad; and a new nature, received through the new birth, which is the nature of God Himself, and therefore wholly good."

- C. I. Scofield (1843-1921) American Theologian, Minister

THAT PERSON WILL DIE IN HIS INIQUITY

"But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul."

- Ezekiel 33:9

THAN FOR A RICH PERSON TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

- Matthew 19:24

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Words to Think About...

THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL PERSON

"Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body."

- 1 Corinthians 6:18

THE GOOD PERSON

"The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks."

- Luke 6:45

THE SPIRITUAL PERSON

"The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one."

- 1 Corinthians 2:15

THE ILL-TEMPERED PERSON

"The ill-tempered person ... can make very little of his environment. However he may attempt to circumscribe it in certain directions, there will always remain a wide and ever-changing area to stimulate his irascibility. His environment, in short, is an inconstant quantity, and his most elaborate calculations and precautions must often and suddenly fail him."

- Henry Drummond (1851-1897) Scottish Evangelist, Biologist

THE DEVIOUS PERSON

"For the devious person is an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence."

- Proverbs 3:32

LET EVERY PERSON

"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God."

- Romans 13:1

EACH PERSON IS TEMPTED

"But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire."

- James 1:14

I WILL NOT JUDGE A PERSON

"I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint) as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life."

- John Owen (1616-1683) English Nonconformist Church Leader

A PERSON IS JUSTIFIED BY WORKS

"You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone."

- James 2:24

FEBRUARY 18

Cast Into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone

WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND IN THE BOOK OF LIFE

"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

- Rev 20:15

THE BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET WERE CAST INTO A LAKE OF FIRE

"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

- Rev 19:20

THE DEVIL WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

"And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."

- Rev 20:10

FIRE AND BRIMSTONE WILL THE PORTION OF THEIR CUP

"Upon the wicked He will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup."

- Psalm 11:6

DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE

"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death."

- Rev 20:14

MULTITUDES WISH TO ESCAPE THE LAKE OF FIRE

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."

- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher

EVERY TREE THAT BRINGETH NOT FORTH GOOD FRUIT

"Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."

- Matthew 7:19

TO BE CAST INTO HELL FIRE

"And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire."

- Matthew 18:9

UPON THE WICKED HE WILL RAIN

"Upon the wicked He will rain snares; fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup."

- Psalm 11:6

CAST INTO THE FIRE. WHICH IS ETERNAL

"If then thy hand, or thy foot, lead thee to offend, cut them off, and cast them from thee: for it were better for thee to enter into life, halting or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the fire, which is eternal."

- Matthew 18:8

FIRE AND SMOKE AND BRIMSTONE

"And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone."

- Revelation 9:17

A THIRD OF MANKIND WAS KILLED

"A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths."

- Revelation 9:18

FIRE AND BRIMSTONE FROM THE LORD

"Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven."

- Genesis 19:24

THESE WILL GO AWAY INTO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT

"These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

- Matthew 25:46

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Words to Think About...

NOT HURT BY THE SECOND DEATH

"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.”

- Revelation 2:11

THAT IS THE SECOND DEATH

"But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death."

- Rev 21:8

RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

"But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all."

- Luke 17:29

CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE

"Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again."

- Psalm 140:10

AND CAST INTO THE FIRE

"And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."

- Matthew 3:10

CAST INTO FIRE

"If any remain not in me, he was cast forth as the branch, and was dried up; and they gather them together, and cast into the fire, and they are burned."

- John 15:6

THE LORD RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

"Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven."

- Genesis 19:24

RAIN DOWN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

"With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone."

- Ezekiel 38:22

THE BREATH OF THE LORD

"For Topheth has long been ready, indeed, it has been prepared for the king. He has made it deep and large, a pyre of fire with plenty of wood; the breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire."

- Isaiah 30:33

TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE

"He also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb."

-Revelation 14:10

THEN HE WILL ALSO SAY

"Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels."

- Matthew 25:41

FEBRUARY 19

Everyone Who Calls on the Name of The Lord

"For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” - Romans 10:13

EVERYONE WHO LOOKS ON THE SON AND BELIEVES

"For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

- John 6:40

SALVATION TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek."

- Romans 1:16

EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES RECEIVES FORGIVENESS

"To Him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

- Acts 10:43

THE CALL OF GOD IS FOR EVERYONE

"The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude."

- - Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) Scottish Evangelist and Teacher

BUT EVERYONE TO COME TO REPENTANCE

"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."

- 2 Peter 3:9

EVERYONE WHO LOOKS ON THE SON

"For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

- 1 John 5:20

NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

- Matthew 7:21-23

EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN MUCH

"But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked."

- Luke 12:48

EVERYONE WHO HEARS THESE WORDS

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock."

- Matthew 7:24

BLESSED IS EVEYONE WHO FEARS THE LORD

"Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!"

- Psalm 128:1

EVERYONE WHO HAS LEFT HOUSES OR FAMILY

"And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life."

- Matthew 19:28-29

EVERYONE WHO LIVES AND BELIEVES IN ME

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

- John 11:25-26

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Words to Think About...

EVERYONE BORN OF GOD

"For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith."

- 1 John 5:4

TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES

"For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."

- James 2:19

EVERYONE WHO LIVES AND BELIEVES

"Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

- John 11:25-26

EVERYONE WHO PASSES JUDGEMENT

"Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things."

- Romans 2:1

EVERYONE TO WHOM MUCH WAS GIVEN

"And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more."

- Luke 12:47-48

EVERYONE WHO CALLS UPON

"And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

- Acts 2:21

EVERYONE THEN WHO HEARS

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock."

- Matthew 7:24

EVERYONE WHO IS BORN OF GOD

"For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith"

- 1 John 5:4

EVERYONE WHO MAKES A PRACTICE OF

"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness."

- 1 John 3:4

EVERYONE WHO THUS HOPES

"Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as He is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as He is pure."

- 1 John 3:2-2

FEBRUARY 20

Multitudes, Multitudes in the Valley of Decision

"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision." - Joel 3:14

LOST FOR WANT OF DECISION

"I believe in my soul that there are more at this day being lost for want of decision than for any other thing."

- D. L. Moody (1837-1899) American Evangelist, Teacher and Preacher

BRING THOSE I CONTACT TO DECISION

"Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me."

- Jim Elliot (1927-1956) American Christian Missionary Killed in Ecuador

TRUST GOD TO GIVE US WISDOM FOR TODAY'S DECISIONS

"As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future."

- Theodore Epp (1907-1985) American Clergyman and Radio Evangelist

MANY ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLWDGE

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children."

- Hosea 4:6

EVERY DECISION IS FROM THE LORD

"The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord."

- Proverbs 16:33

FOR MY DECISION IS GATHER NATIONS

“Therefore wait for me, declares the LORD, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed."

- Zephaniah 3:8

DECIDE NEVER TO PUT A STUMBLING BLOCK OR HINDRANCE

"Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother."

- Romans 14:13

AS HE HAS DECIDED IN HIS HEART

"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."

- 2 Corinthians 9:7

READY TO DO WHAT THE LORD DECIDES

"And the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”

- 2 Samuel 15:15

MAKE ME TO KNOW YOUR WAYS

"Make me know Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day."

- Psalm 25:4-5

HE INSTRUCTS SINNERS IN THE WAY

"Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in justice, and He teaches the humble His way."

- Psalm 25:8-9

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Words to Think About...

MAKE A DECISION

"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1900-1945) German Christian Executed by Nazis

DECISION AND ACTION OF THE WILL

"It is imperative that believers recognize a spirit exists within them, something extra to thought, knowledge and imagination of the mind, something beyond affection, sensation and pleasure of the emotion, something additional to desire, decision and action of the will."

- Watchman Nee (1903-1972) Chinese Church Leader

WHAT IS YOUR DECISION?

"You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as deserving death."

- Mark 14:64

FOR I DECIDED TO KNOW

"For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."

- 1 Corinthians 2:2

YOU WILL DECIDE ON A MATTER

"You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways."

- Job 22:28

HAVE HAD A DECIDED TENDENCY

"It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

DECIDE THIS DAY

"I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.”

- Judges 11:27

AND DECIDE WITH EQUITY

"But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked."

- Isaiah 11:4

TRUST IN THE LORD ALWAYS

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."

- Proverbs 3:5-6

FEBRUARY 21

A Martyrs Crown

I WILL GIVE YOU THE CROWN OF LIFE

"Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life."

- Revelation 2:10

DO NOT FEAR THOSE WHO KILL THE BODY

"Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

- Matthew 10:28

BROTHER WILL BETRAY BROTHER TO DEATH

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death."

- Matthew 10:21

GOD HAS A PLAN AND PURPOSE IN ALL THINGS

"To the world at large this was a sad waste of five young lives. But God has His plan and purpose in all things... The prayers of the widows themselves are for the Aucas. We look forward to the day when these savages will join us in Christian praise. Plans were promptly formulated for continuing the work of the martyrs."

- Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) Christian Missionary and Writer

WHOEVER WISHES TO SAVE HIS LIFE

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."

- Matthew 16:24-25

THE STUFF WHICH MARTYRS ARE MADE OF

"The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made."

- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher

DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS

"And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly."

- Revelation 17:6

THAT HE IS OFFERING A SERVICE TO GOD

"They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God."

- John 16:2

YOU WILL BE HATED BY ALL NATIONS

“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name."

- Matthew 24:9

THERE WAS GIVEN TO EACH A WHITE ROBE

"And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also."

- Revelation 6:11

STEPHAN THE MARTYR

"When they heard these things they were [a]cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep."

- Acts 7:54-60

HIGHEST HONOR THAT GOD CAN CONFER UPON HIS CHILDREN

"The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED

"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."

- Revelation 20:4-5

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AND THEY WILL KILL YOU

“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name."

- Matthew 24:9

HE IS NO FOOL

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

- Jim Elliot (1927-1956) American Christian Missionary Killed in Ecuador

THE CAUSE MAKES THE MARTYR

"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."

- St. Augustine (354-430) Theologian and Philosopher

THEY WERE BEHEADED

"They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated."

- Hebrews 11:37

THEY STONED HIM TO DEATH

"So they conspired against him and at the command of the king they stoned him to death in the court of the house of the Lord."

- 2 Chronicles 24:21

THOSE WHO HAD BEEN SLAIN

"When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained."

- Revelation 6:9

ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

- 2 Timothy 3:12

BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED

"Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

- Matthew 5:10

IF THE WORLD HATES YOU

"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first."

- John 15:18

ALL WHO WERE SLAIN ON THE EARTH

"And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

- Revelation 18:24

WE MAY NEVER BE MARTYRS

"We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life."

- Vance Havner (1901-1986) American Country Preacher

ETERNAL CROWNS OF GLORY

"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."

- John Foxe (1516/1517-1587), English Historian and Martyrologist

FEBRUARY 22

More Tolerable for Sodom in the Day of Judgment Than For You

“And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.” -Matthew 11:23-24

THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED

"Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD."

- Genesis 13:13

BECAUSE THE CRY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH IS GREAT

"And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know."

- Genesis 18:20-21

ALL OF THE MEN OF SODOM

"Before they could lie down, all the men of Sodom and its outskirts, both young and old, surrounded the house. They called out to Lot and asked, “Where are the men who came to visit you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!” Lot went outside to them, shut the door behind him, and said, “I urge you, my brothers, don’t do such a wicked thing.”

- Genesis 19:4-7

GOD CONDEMNED THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH

"If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh[a] and despise authority."

- 2 Peter 2:6-10

THEY DID ACCORDING TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS

"And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel."

- 1 Kings 14:24

SODOM AND GOMMORRAH AND THE SURROUNDING CITIES

"Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire."

- Jude 1:7

BRING OUT THE MAN WHO IS STAYING WITH YOU

"While they were enjoying themselves, a crowd of troublemakers from the town surrounded the house. They began beating at the door and shouting to the old man, “Bring out the man who is staying with you so we can have sex with him.”

- Judges 19:22

THEY INDULGED IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY

"So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire."

- Jude 1:7

IF I FIND AT SODOM 50 RIGHTEOUS MEN

And the LORD said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

- Genesis 18:26

AND HE TOOK AWAYS THE SODOMITES OUT OF THE LAND

"And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made."

- 1 Kings 15:12

PAY ATTENTION TO THE TEACHING OF GOD

"Listen to what the Lord says, you rulers of Sodom, and pay attention to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!"

- Isaiah 1:10

THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT THE GOD'S KINGDOM

"Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality."

- 1 Corinthians 6:9

THE OUTCRY AGAINST THIS PLACE IS GREAT BEFORE THE LORD

"Then the two visitors said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it.”

- Genesis 19:12-13

AND SOME OF YOU USED TO BE LIKE THIS

"And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."

- 1 Corinthians 6:11

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Words to Think About...

THE ACTIONS OF THE FLESH

"Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity."

- Galatians 5:19

CONCERNING HOMOSEXUALITY

“Concerning homosexuality: This once brought hell out of heaven on Sodom.”

- Charles Spurgeon

THEY DID NOT HIDE IT

"The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

- Isaiah 3:8-9

INIQUITY OF YOUR SISTER SODOM

"Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but didn’t support the poor and needy."

- Ezekiel 16:49

HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH

"Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires."

- Galatians 5:24

PUT TO DEATH YOUR WORLDLY NATURE

"Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry."

- Colossians 3:5

IF WORKS HAD BEEN DONE IN SODOM

"And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day."

- Matthew 11:23

FOR THIS REASON, GOD DELIVERED

"They exchanged God’s truth for a lie and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason, God delivered them to degrading passions as their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural. In the same way, their males also abandoned their natural sexual function toward females and burned with lust toward one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received within themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion."

- Romans 1:25-27

FIRE AND SULPHUR RAINED

"But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all."

- Luke 17:29

BEHAVE LIKE OBEDIENT CHILDREN

“Behave like obedient children. Don’t let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be.”

- 1 Peter 1:14

SET YOUR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE

“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”

- Colossians 3:2

IT IS AN ABOMINATION

"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."

- Leviticus 18:22

FEBRUARY 23

Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." - Matthew 5:6

WHOEVER COME TO ME SHALL NOT HUNGER

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst."

- John 6:35

WE HAVE HUNGER FOR ETERNITY IN OUR SOULS

"Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?"

- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress

TO THE PRESENT HOUR WE HUNGER AND THIRST

"To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless."

- 1 Corinthians 4:11

HUNGER AND LONGING FOR CHRIST

"Hunger and longing for Christ hath brought on such a necessity of enjoying Christ that I will not, I dow not want him; for I cannot master nor command Christ's love."

- Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) Scottish Presbyterian Pastor, Theologian

FOR HE SATISFIES THE THIRSTY SOUL

"Let them give thanks to the LORD for His lovingkindness, And for His wonders to the sons of men! For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good."

- Psalm 107:8-9

THEY SHALL HUNGER NO MORE

"They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

- Revelation 7:16-17

HE WHO COMES TO ME WILL NOT HUNGER

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst."

- John 6:35

THE LORD WILL NOT ALLOW THE RIGHTEOUS TO HUNGER

"The Lord will not allow the righteous to hunger, but He will reject the craving of the wicked."

- Proverbs 10:3

FOR HE HAS SATISFIED THE THIRSTY SOUL

"For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, and the hungry soul He has filled with what is good."

- Psalm 107:9

THE EXPERIENCES OF HUNGER AND THIRST

"Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. - Discipline: The Glad Surrender"

- Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) Christian Missionary and Writer

WOE TO THIOSE WHO ARE WELL-FED NOW

"Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep."

- Luke 6:25

HE HAS FILLED THE HUNGRY WITH GOOD THINGS

“He has filled the hungry with good things; and sent away the rich empty-handed."

- Luke 1:53

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YOU GAVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN

"You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them."

- Nehemiah 9:15

GOD WILL FILL THE HUNGRY

"God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill."

- Thomas Watson (1620-1686), Puritan Preacher

IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY

“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

- Romans 12:20

I PERISH WITH HUNGER

"It is now agreed as a mere question of anthropology that the universal language of the human soul has always been "I perish with hunger." This is what fits it for Christ. There is a grandeur in this cry from the depths which makes its very unhappiness sublime."

- Henry Drummond (1851-1897) Scottish Evangelist, Biologist

BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HUNGER NOW

"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh."

- Luke 6:21

AS A DEER PANTS FOR THE WATER

"As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God."

- Psalm 42:1

IDLE PERSON SHALL SUFFER HUNGER

"Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger."

- Proverbs 19:15

WHEN DID WE SEEE YOU HUNGRY?

“Then they also will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?"

- Matthew 25:44

HO! EVERY ONE WHO THIRSTS

"Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost. "Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And delight yourself in abundance."

- Isaiah 55:1-2

FEBRUARY 24

The Whole Creation Growneth and Travaileth

"For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." - Romans 8:22

FOR THE CREATION WAITS WITH LONGING

"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God."

- Romans 8:19

AND NOT ONLY THE CREATION GROANS

"And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies."

- Romans 8:23

CREATION WILL BE SET FREE ITS BONDAGE

"That the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God."

- Romans 8:21

GOD DWELLS IN HIS CREATION

"God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them."

- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher

EVER SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD

"For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse."

- Romans 1:20

THE UNCEASING ACTIVITY OF THE CREATOR

"The unceasing activity of the Creator, whereby in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory."

- J. I. Packer (1926-2020) English Theologian, Cleric

MY GROANINGS ARE POURED OUT LIKE WATER

"For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water."

- Job 3:24

NOR ANYTHING ELSE IN ALL CREATION

"Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

- Romans 8:39

FROM THE WORDS OF MY GROANINGS?

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?"

- Psalm 22:1

TO CHRIST BELONGS CREATIVE POWER

"We believe that to Christ belongs creative power--that without Him was not anything made which was made. We believe that from Him came all life at first. In Him life was as in its deep source. He is the fountain of life. We believe that as not being comes into existence without His creative power, so none continues to exist without His sustaining energy. We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence, and that the centre of the whole universe is the cross of Cavalry."

- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress

AT THE END OF YOUR LIFE YOU GROAN

"And at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed."

- Proverbs 5:11

PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL INTO ALL CREATION

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."

- Mark 16:15

RESTED FROM HIS WORK HE HAD DONE IN CREATION

"So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that He had done in creation."

- Genesis 2:3

PROCLAIMED IN ALL CREATION UNDER HEAVEN

"If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister."

- Colossians 1:23

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Words to Think About...

THOU HAST CREATED US FOR THYSELF

"Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee."

- Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Bishop, Theologian and Philosopher

HE IS A NEW CREATION

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

- 2 Corinthians 5:17

CONSIDER MY GROANINGS

"Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning."

- Psalm 5:1

YOU CREATED ALL THINGS

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being"

- Revelation 4:11

AND GOD HEARD THEIR GROANING

"And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob."

- Exodus 2:24

THE FIRSTBORN OF ALL CREATION

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation."

- Colossians 1:15

GOD BUILT INTO CREATION

"God built into the creation a variety of cultural spheres, such as the family, economics, politics, art, and intellectual inquiry. Each of these spheres has its own proper "business" and needs its own unique pattern of authority. When we confuse spheres, by violating the proper boundaries of church and state, for instance, or reducing the academic life to a business enterprise, we transgress the patterns that God has set."

- Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) Prime Minister Netherlands, Theologian, Journalist

BECAUSE OF MY LOUD GROANINGS

"Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh."

- Psalm 102:5

THE LORD THE CREATOR OF TIME

"Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best."

- Samuel Rutherford

WHEN HE CREATED YOU

"There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be."

- A.J. Gossip (1873-1954) Professor of Christian Ethics

FOR IN THIS TENT WE GROAN

"For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling."

- 2 Corinthians 5:2

FEBRUARY 25

Lawlessness Shall Be Increased

"And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. - Matthew 24:12

DEPART FORM ME, YOU WORKERS OF LAWLESSNESS

"Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!"

- Matthew 7:21-:23

THE MYSTERY OF LAWLESSNESS

"For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way."

- 2 Thessalonians 2:7

THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED

"Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction."

- 2 Thessalonians 2:3

TO REDEEM US FROM ALL LAWLESSNESS

"Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works."

- Titus 2:14

WHOEVER COMMITS SIN ALSO COMMITS LAWLESSNESS

"Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness."

- Ephesians 2:2-3

NOW WORKS IN THE SONS OF DISOBEIENCE

"In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others."

- Ephesians 2:2

FULL OF HIPOCRASY AND LAWLESSNESS

"So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."

- Matthew 23:28

UNDERSTANDING THIS, THAT THE LAW

"Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers."

- 1 Timothy 1:9

TO DO GOOD THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE

"For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are silly children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.'

- Jeremiah 4:22

KILLED BY THE HANDS OF LAWLESS MEN

"This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men."

- Acts 2:23

WHAT PARTNERSHIP HAS RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH LAWLESSNESS?

"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"

- 2 Corinthians 6:14

THE COMING LAWLESS ONE

"The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders."

- 2 Thessalonians 2:9

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Words to Think About...

SIN IS LAWLESSNESS

"Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness."

- 1 John 3:4

IMPURITY AND LAWLESSNESS

"I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification."

- Romans 6:19

NON-PRAYING IS LAWLESSNESS

"Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy."

- E.M. Bounds (1835–1913) American Methodist Author, Attorney

CARNAL MIND IS ENMITY WITH GOD

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be."

- 1 John 3:4

THAT WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS

"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome."

- 1 John 5:3

THEY PROFESS TO KNOW GOD

"They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work."

- Titus 1:16

THEY PROCEED FROM EVIL TO EVIL

“And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me, says the LORD."

- Jeremiah 9:3

PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS

"And with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

THE ERROR OF LAWLESSNESS

"You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability."

- 2 Peter 3:17

REMEMBER LAWLESS DEEDS NO MORE

"Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

- Hebrews 10:17

FEBRUARY 26

Mystery, Babylon the Great

"And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." - Revelation 17:5

Babylon is the second most frequently mentioned city in the Bible. In the NKJV, it appears 287 times in 253 verses.

IN ONE HOUR YOUR JUDGEMENT HAS COME

"Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry: Woe! Woe, O great city, O Babylon, city of power! In one hour your doom has come!"

- Revelation 18:10

ANOTHER ANGEL FOLLOWED, SAYING, BABYLON HAS FALLEN

"And another angel followed, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication."

- Revelation 14:8

FOR ALL THE NATIONS HAVE DRUNK WINE OF HER ADULTERIES

"For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."

- Revelation 18:3

THEIR BODIES WILL LIE IN THE STREETS OF THE GREAT CITY

"Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified."

- Revelation 11:8

GOD REMEMBERED BABYLON THE GREAT

"The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath."

- Revelation 16:19

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS

"I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement."

- Revelation 17:6

FALLEN! FALLEN IS BABYLON THE GREAT

"With a mighty voice he shouted: "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird."

- Revelation 18:2

PROPHECY OF BABYLON'S CAPTIVITY AND DESTRUCTION

"And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there."

- Isaiah 13:19–20

CUT OFF FROM BABYLON THE NAME AND REMNANT

"For I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and offspring and posterity, says the Lord. I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts."

- Isaiah 14:22–23

CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE TO BABYLON BECAUSE OF THE UNFAITHFILNESS

"So all Israel was recorded by genealogies, and indeed, they were inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel. But Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness."

- 1 Chronicles 9:1

HE MADE KNOWN TO US THE MYSTERY

"He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth."

- Ephesians 1:9-10

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IN THE PROVINCE OF BABYLON

"Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon."

- Daniel 3:1

BABYLON SHALL BE UTTERLY BROKEN

"The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; the people will labor in vain, And the nations, because of the fire; And they shall be weary."

- Jeremiah 51:58

BABYLON HAS FALLEN

"Look, here comes a man in a chariot with a team of horses. And he gives back the answer: Babylon has fallen, has fallen! All the images of its gods lie shattered on the ground!"

- Isaiah 21:9

DAUGHTER OF THE BABYLONIANS

"Sit in silence, go into darkness, Daughter of the Babylonians; no more will you be called queen of kingdoms."

- Isaiah 47:5

WHAT THE LORD ALMIGHTY SAYS

"This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Babylon's thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations' labor is only fuel for the flames."

- Jeremiah 51:58

THE WOMAN YOU SAW

"The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."

- Revelation 17:18

NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON

"Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations."

- Jeremiah 25:9

MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

"And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand."

- Luke 8:10

UNINFORMED OF THE MYSTERY

"For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in."

- Romans 11:25

FEBRUARY 27

The Seven Bowl Judgements

"And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. - Revelation 7:15

There are 7 bowl judgments that will be release before the battle of Armageddon and Jesus returns back to earth when every eye shall see Him. These last set of judgments are are called the 7 Bowl Judgments.

THE FIRST BOWL: PAINFUL SORES

"Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.” So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image.”

- Revelation 16:1-2

THE SECOND BOWL: THE SEAS SMITEN

"Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.”

- Revelation 16:3

THE THIRD BOWL: RIVERS SMITTEN

“Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters saying: “You are righteous, O Lord, the One who is and who was and who is to be, because You have judged these things. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, for it is their just due.” And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”

Revelation 16:4-7

THE FOURTH BOWL: THE SCORCHING HEAT

“Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.”

- Revelation 16:8-9

THE FIFTH BOWL: DARKNESS

- Revelation 16:8-9

THE SIXTH BOWL: THE EUPHRATES RIVER DRIED UP

“Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of the God Almighty, “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.”

- Revelation 16:12-16

THE SEVENTH BOWL: WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION

“Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And great hail from heaven fell upon men, every hailstone about the weight of a talent. And the men blasphemed God because of the plagues of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.”

- Revelation 16:17-21

THE EARTH EXPERIENCES YOUR JUDGEMENTS

"At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; for when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness."

- Isaiah 26:9

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EARTH IS UPHEAVED BY HIS PRESENCE

"Mountains quake because of Him and the hills dissolve; indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence, the world and all the inhabitants in it."

- Nahum 1:5

THOSE WHO CONTEND WITH THE LORD

“Those who contend with the Lord will be shattered; against them He will thunder in the heavens, the Lord will judge the ends of the earth; and He will give strength to His king, and will exalt the horn of His anointed.”

- 1 Samuel 2:10

HIS JUDGEMENTS

"He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth."

-1 Chronicles 16:14

WHO SHAKES THE EARTH

"Who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble."

- Job 9:6

AND CONSUMES THE EARTH

For a fire is kindled in My anger, and burns to the lowest part of Sheol, and consumes the earth with its yield, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains."

- Deuteronomy 32:22

THE EARTH TREMBLED AND SHOOK

"The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook."

- Psalm 77:18

TO MAKE THE EARTH TREMBLE

"In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs before the terror of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty, when He arises to make the earth tremble."

- Isaiah 2:21

HE RAISED HIS VOICE, EARTH MELTED

"The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered; He raised His voice, the earth melted."

- Psalm 46:6

AT HIS WRATH THE EARTH QUAKES

"But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure His indignation."

- Jeremiah 10:10

JESUS ANSWERED, I AM THE WAY

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

- John 14:6

FEBRUARY 28

The Return of the Nephilim

"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown." - Genesis 6:4

The return of the Nephilim can be found In Numbers 13:28. This is the first passage since their first mention in Genesis 6:4 as the the former offspring of fallen angels.

It was in the days of Noah these Nephilim lived upon the face of the earth. They, along with their fallen angelic parents, wreaked havoc upon the earth, mankind, nature, animals, and all of God's creation.

The Nephilim were a primary reason for God's severe judgment that resulted in the Biblical Flood.

The definition and meaning of Nephilim in Hebrew is uncertain, and the term is also translated as giants. There are other names in the Bible that refer to giants living on the earth. For example, the Anakites were descendants of the Nephilm and the Rephaites (or Rephaim) were also giants.

AND THERE WE SAW THE NEPHILIM

"And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

- Numbers 13:33

ANGELS WHICH KEPT NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE

"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."

- Jude 1:6

GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED

"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment':

- 2 Peter 2:4

WHEN THE SONS OF MEN CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES

"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them."

- Job 1:6

AGAIN THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF MEN CAME

"Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD."

- Job 2:1

BASHAN REMAINED OF THE REMNANT OF GIANTS

"For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man."

- Deuteronomy 3:11

WHICH WAS OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT

"And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David."

- 2 Samuel 21:16

FOUR WERE BORN TO GIANT IN GATH

"These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants."

- 2 Samuel 21:22

WE SAW THEIR DECENDANTS THERE

"However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there."

- Num. 13:28

WHO CAN STAND BEFORE THE SONS OF ANAK?

"A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, who can stand before the sons of Anak?"

- Deut. 9:2

AND IN ASHDOD DID SOME REMAIN

"There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain."

- Joshua 11:22

THE ANAKIN WERE THERE, WITH GREAT FORTIFIED CITIES

"So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”"

- Joshua 14:12

AND NO MARVEL, FOR SATAN HIMSELF

"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."

- 2 Corinthians 11:14-15

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THEY TOOK THEM WIVES

"That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."

- Genesis 6:2

EVERY HAND SIX FINGERS

"And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant."

- 2 Samuel 21:20

AND THE LORD SAID

"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."

- Genesis 6:3

WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG

"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

- Job 38:7

IN STILL ANOTHER BATTLE

"In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha."

- 2 Samuel 21:20

A PEOPLE GREAT, TALL AND MANY

"The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;"

- Deuteronomy 2:10

MADE TO MAKE THEIR MEMORY PERISH

"They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish."

- Isaiah 26:14

THESE WERE DECENDANTS IN GATH

"These were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men."

- 1 Chronicles 20:8

THE VALLEY OF REPHAIM

"Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim."

-1 Chronicles 11:15

THE WICKEDNESS OF THESE NATIONS

“Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you."

- Deuteronomy 9:4

AS THE DAYS OF NOAH

"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. "

- Matthew 24:37-39

FEBRUARY 29

Why Should a Living Man Complain?

"Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?" - Lamentations 3:39

EVERY EVENING AND MORNING I UTTER MY COMPLAINT

"Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice."

- Psalm 55:17

TODAY ALSO MY COMPLAINT IS BITTER

“Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning."

- Job 23:2

I POUR OUT MY COMPLAINT BEFORE HIM

"I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him."

- Psalm 142:2

SETTLE THE COMPLAINT WITH GOD

"Let us beware of rebellion against the Lord. Circumstances are of His choosing, because He wants to bless us, to lead us (even through the wilderness) out of Egypt, that is, out of ourselves. Settle the complaint with God, and it will settle other things. Be offended with God, and you will be offended with everyone who crosses your path."

- Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) Christian Missionary and Writer

HEAR MY VOICE, O GOD, IN MY COMPLAINT

"Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy."

- Psalm 64:1

YOU WHO MURMUR

"Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God."

- Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) English Baptist Preacher

I WILL COMPLAIN IN THE BITTERNESS OF MY SOUL

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul."

- Job 7:11

THE SELF-LIFE WHICH SO EASILY COMPLAINS

"Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains."

- Alan Redpath (1907–1989), American Evangelist, Pastor, Author

IF ONE HAS A COMPLAINT AGAINST ANOTHER

"Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive."

- Colossians 3:13

THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED IN THE HEARING OF THE LORD

"And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp."

- Numbers 11:1

INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING AT HIS LOT

"Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily desiring something more than the supply of his present need, he rejoices that God still cares for him. Such an one is "content" with such as he has."

- A. W. Pink (1886-1952) English Bible Teacher

NOT FOUND ANY GROUND FOR COMPLAINT

Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”

- Daniel 6:5

WHY DO YOU COMPLAIN AGAINST HIM

“Why do you complain against Him That He does not give an account of all His doings?"

- Job 33:13

I WILL FORGET MY COMPLAINT

"If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer."

- Job 9:27

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WHEN I COMPLAIN TO YOU

"Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?"

- Jeremiah 12:1

I AM RESTLESS IN MY COMPLAINT

"Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan."

- Psalm 55:2

HE WHO COMPLAINS OF THE WEATHER

"He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!"

- William Law (1686-1761) Church of England Cleric

ANSWER CONCERNING MY COMPLAINT

"I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint."

- Habakkuk 2:1

IS MY COMPLAINT AGAINST MAN?

"As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?"

- Job 21:4

INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING

"Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself."

- Blaise Pascal (1623- 1662), French Mathematician, Physicist, Religious Philosopher

BE HOSPITABLE WITHOUT COMPLAINT

"Be hospitable to one another without complaint."

- 1 Peter 4:9

MY COUCH WILL EASY MY COMPLAINT

"When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’

- Job 7:13

WE GO THROUGH IT COMPLAINING

We come into the world crying, we go through it complaining, and go out of it groaning!"

- William Tiptaft (1803-1864) Church of England Cleric

WHO HAS COMPLAINING?

"Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?"

- Proverbs 23:29

BUT GRUMBLED IN THEIR TENTS

"But grumbled in their tents; they did not listen to the voice of the Lord."

- Psalm 106:25

THESE ARE GRUMBLERS

"These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage."

- Jude 1:16

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