We praise ourselves, not realizing the pride.

You are to let another person praise you, not yourself.

Proverbs 27:2 (KJV) – let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

When you rub iron together it sharpens the other.

Just the same, you are to sharpen one another.

Proverbs 27:17 (KJV) – iron sharpeneth iron; so a man shapreneth the countenance of his friend.

God acts on behalf of those that wait on Him.

You won’t believe your ears or your eyes what He has already prepared for you.

Wait on Him . . . and see!

Isaiah 64:4 (KJV) – for since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

When you walk in the way that’s pleasing to God, He will make your enemies be at peace with you.

Proverbs 16:7 (KJV) – when a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

It is better to have a little, achieving it the right way, then to have a lot, achieving it the wrong way.

Proverbs 16:8 (KJV) – better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

Who or whatever has power was given by God, who has authority over ALL the power.

There is nothing and noone that has more power than God.

Romans 13:1 (KJV) – let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

The scriptures is inspired by God to instruct you to do the right things.

That’s God equipping you and showing you his love for you.

II Timothy 3:16-17 (KJV) – all scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

God destroyed the earth with a flood because He was grieved/disappointed by man’s evil ways.

He made a promise that He will not destroy the earth with water again.

His promise is The Rainbow!

Genesis 9:11, 13 (KJV) – and I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Its easy to be mean to those that are mean to us.

It’s not easy to love others that don’t love you back.

Be intentional to love others, hate evil and its ways, and intentionally cling to those things that are good.

Romans 12:9 (KJV) – let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil: cleave to that which is good.

We do wicked things, yet God still gives us grace.

To top it off, if you confess your wrong to Him, He will forgive you when you ask for it.

I John 1:9 (KJV) – if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.