Are you fighting your battles or is God fighting your battles? God always wins.
Psalms 35:1 KJV Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
David knew he was saved by God's grace.
Psalms 35:9 KJV And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
The hypocrites often gnash their teeth, when you tell them the truth.
Psalms 35:16 KJV With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Public praise and thanksgiving are welcomed praise and thanksgiving.
Psalms 35:18 KJV I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
If you are near Gospilled, get used to it.
Psalms 35:28 KJV And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Tradition < Commandment of God (His Word)
Mark 7:5 KJV Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark 7:6 KJV He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7 KJV Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mark 7:8 KJV For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Mark 7:9 KJV And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Mark 7:13 KJV Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Jesus knows our thoughts. What thoughts have we entertained today?
Mark 7:20 KJV And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Mark 7:21 KJV For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mark 7:22 KJV Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mark 7:23 KJV All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
The humble heart reaches God’s heart.
Mark 7:28 KJV And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
Mark 7:29 KJV And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
Jesus defied the religious status quo by disregarding the traditional hand-washing ritual and instead using his fingers and spit, considered unclean by religious and societal standards, to perform miraculous healings.
Mark 7:33 KJV And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
Mark 7:34 KJV And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
When a man of God leads his home with spiritual integrity, his family is more likely to respect and follow his leadership.
Genesis 35:2 KJV Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Genesis 35:3 KJV And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Genesis 35:4 KJV And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
The land is not the exclusive domain of any one nation or people opposed to Christ, but rather a shared inheritance of people from many nations who are one in Christ.
Genesis 35:10 KJV And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Genesis 35:11 KJV And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
Genesis 35:12 KJV And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Jacob had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ, the eternal Word and Son of God. Similarly, as the faithful read and pray through the Bible, they too experience the same.
Genesis 35:15 KJV And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
Jacob truly loved Rachel.
Genesis 35:17 KJV And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
Genesis 35:18 KJV And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:19 KJV And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
Genesis 35:20 KJV And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
I am glad to know that Esau and Jacob reunited for their father's funeral.
Genesis 35:29 KJV And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Satan has the power to inflict pestilence. I would beware of those who claim to be the father of the injections thereof, whether labeled as vaccines or not.
Job 2:7 KJV So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 2:8 KJV And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Women are not intended to lead the spiritual direction of the home or church, largely due to their immediate emotional nature and reactions. Nevertheless, when men neglect this responsibility, I commend those women who step forward to fill the gap, even if they don't get everything right.
Job 2:9 KJV Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Job 2:10 KJV But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Sometimes there are no words to comfort those who are hurting. All we can do during these times is be a prayerful and empathetic presence.
Job 2:11 KJV Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
Job 2:12 KJV And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Job 2:13 KJV So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.