WALKING RIGHT

 

Psalm 119:9

 

"How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word." ESV 

 

 

The world is dense and intense with ungodliness and tragedy. We are so accustomed to the things that go on around us, it seems we don't give much thought to it anymore. As a result, we have become complacent, impure, and tainted with particles big and small of this world's ways. How can we keep this from happening to us and get on the right track? We are to make sure we are studying God's Word and walking in It's precepts.

 

Heavenly Father, please forgive us for getting distracted by this world and for allowing impurity to enter into our lives. Put a burning desire in us to study Your Word and apply it to every part of our being. We ask this in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Bobbi Craigmyle, Psy.D., BCPCC

 

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NO MUTT MARRIAGES

 

Hebrews 13:4

 

 

"Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous." ESV

 

 

God has such passion for marriage that He patterned the sacred union of a man and woman after Jesus Christ, the bridegroom, and His bride, the Church. Do we regard marriage with this same honor and respect? Just like our relationship to the Lord, our marriage is as pure as our thoughts, our feelings, and our actions.

 

Heavenly Father, we give You thanks for the holy and sacred gift of marriage. We stand in need of Your grace to help us keep our marital commitment pure and holy. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

 

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PURE LEADING THE PURE

 

1 Timothy 5:22

 

"Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure." ESV

 

Choosing those who will lead us in the ways of Christ is serious business. We are to be very careful to prayerfully choose by looking at the heart, not the outward appearance. Likewise, we have gotten complacent with our brothers and sisters in Christ who have fallen into sinful lifestyles. In doing so, we become just as guilty as they are because we condone their ways. Staying in the Light of Christ, walking in His Spirit will keep us unstained by the world.

 

Heavenly Father, we ask for wisdom to choose those who teach us and lead us. We ask for strength to call into account those fellow Christians who are doing wrong. We pray that You would help us keep our hearts pure as we walk in Your Spirit in obedience to Your Word. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

 

Read 1 Timothy 5:22

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Bobbi Craigmyle, Psy.D., BCPCC

 

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PRETENDING PURITY

 

Jeremiah 9:25

 

"Behold the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh." ESV

 

Circumcision of the flesh is a physical act representing the covenant between God and His people to be a pure, separate, and holy people. The Lord has declared to us that circumcision of the heart is a personal covenant that occurs when we commit our will over to Him. We can attend church regularly, know the Bible inside and out, and talk the Christian talk, but not have hearts that have been circumcised. If that's the case, then we are merely dressed up to look like Christians; we are imposters.

 

Heavenly Father, search our hearts and reveal to us any false pretense, any hypocrisy, any impurity that remains in our hearts. We desire to be washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ and to serve You with circumcised hearts. We pray in His precious name, Amen.

 

©2008-2013

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WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?

 

 

Psalm 25:14

 

"The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear Him, and He makes known to them His covenant." ESV

 

The ways of God have always been clouded with mystery. Many have tried to unlock secrets of the Almighty through research, study, and techniques of the spirit world. The Word of God plainly tells us that God reveals secrets of His plan and mysteries of His ways to those who reverence and worship Him from a pure heart.

 

Heavenly Father, we acknowledge that You are Omniscient, knowing all things. Give us Your grace to understand that some mysteries are not for our knowing. But, we know You are faithful to reveal Your secrets to Your children who have hearts with reverence and purity to receive them. For this we give You praise. In Jesus' name, Amen.

 

©2008-2013

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Bobbi Craigmyle, Psy.D., BCPCC

 

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TEAR IT DOWN AND LEAVE IT

 

Galatians 2:18

"If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker." NIV

"For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor." KJV

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Lord, we put off the old life, the old "us" and we put on Christ. We tear down the old life we built by our own ways and we let our Lord build us up in His ways. If we go back to the ways of our old life and try to get back for ourselves anything there, we make a dirty spot of sin on the new life in Christ. Being human, this happens without really giving it any thought until it's already done. God is so merciful, He has provided us the gift of confessing and repenting of this wrong and removing the stain completely. We can trust God fully to show us when we are about to rebuild our old, dead life, and to cause us to leave it alone.

Heavenly Father, forgive us for tromping into our past and bringing things back into our new lives. Show us when we are tempted to do this and give us Your power to leave it alone. We pray in the name of Jesus, Amen.

           

©2012

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PURITY IN MARRIAGE

God holds marriage in such high esteem that He patterned His Son as the groom and the Church as His Bride. How much more should we regard marriage with the highest honor and respect. Keeping the marriage bed pure includes being faithful

to our spouses with our thoughts, our emotions, and our actions.

Heavenly Father, we give you thanks for our marriages and ask for your help in always keeping our marital commitment pure and holy. In Jesus' name.

Read Hebrews 13:4

"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." (NIV)

"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." (KJV)

     

©2010

BE CAREFUL

We are to be careful about who we choose as our Christian leaders.
They must have proven themselves in Godliness and faithfulness. We
are to be careful not to overlook and condone those of our fellow believers who are engaging in sin. That makes us as guilty as they are. We are to walk in the Holy Spirit so that we remain unstained by the world.

Heavenly Father, give us wisdom to choose those who teach and lead us, strength to call those fellow Christians who are doing wrong to acount, and to keep ourselves pure. In Jesus' name.

Read 1 Timothy 5:22

"Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure." (NIV)

"Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure." (KJV)

    
©2010

TRUE RELIGION

The original Latin meaning of the word religion is to tie, fasten, or bind,
like a ligament functions in the muscle structure of the human body. When our religion consists of being tied to tradition and rituals, it makes us rigid and susceptible to breaking apart. When the effect of our religion is mercy and giving to the needs of others, we become a living tie between the flowing, living love of the Lord and others around us. Being tied (bound) to the Lord is our choice. It is a choice that gives us the power to stay spiritually free from worldly ways. That is true religion.

Read James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." (NIV)

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (KJV)

LOVE

Everything we do, everything we learn, and all understanding we
have is to be filled, rich to overflowing with love. Doing so, we can
know the things that are right and Godly. Then we will know God,
for God is love.

Read Philippians 1:9,10

"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more
in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to
discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day
of Christ." (NIV)

"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are
excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of
Christ." (KJV)


  
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CALLED TO BE PURE AND HOLY

God calls us not only as our Saviour, but as our Lord. He instructs
us in His Word that we are to believe by faith that He is the Christ
and that He died for our sins. In addition, He tells us to be holy like
Himself. What kind of witnesses are we if we say we are Christians
but continue to do things that are not pleasing to Him.

Read 1 Thessalonians 4:7

"For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life." (NIV)

"For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." (KJV)


  
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