You don’t receive what you pray for if you pray with the wrong motive.

James 4:3 (KJV) – ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Above any and everything, you are to have a relationship with our Father.

It’s a commandment.

Mark 12:30 (KJV) – and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

God is always good!

He is always merciful!

And His truth is forever.

You can always trust Him.

Psalm 100:5 (KJV) – for the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth to all generations.

There is so much evil in the world.

But we still are to love others.

God loves them, so should you.

I John 4:11 (KJV) – beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

The Lord hears the prayers of those who walk uprightly.

It’s not the same for those who don’t.

Proverbs 16:29 (KJV) – the Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Those that are greedy for their own gain brings trouble to their own home.

Proverbs 15:27 (KJV) – he that is greedy of gain trouble his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

It’s harder to be obedient and do what’s right.

Because the flesh is easy to give in to and doesn’t want you to do right.

Galatians 5:17 (KJV) – for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Man makes so many mistakes.

Yet you trust man more than you trust God, who makes no mistakes.

It’s best to trust God.

Psalm 118:8 (KJV) – it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

It’s AMAZING how powerful a word  spoken or written can affect you.

But it’s not what goes in that defines you, its what comes out.

Matthew 15:11 (KJV) – not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

The unbeliever and even some believers have the notion that believers will not have trials and struggles.

News flash!!

No one is exempt from struggles.

John 16:33 (KJV) – these things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.