Sin is controlling.

You do what you shouldn’t and don’t do what you should.

Romans 7:19-20 (KJV) – for the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Our trials are opportunities for God’s blessings.

If you respond correctly and see the trial as coming from God, you will see your blessing.

Romans 8:28 (KJV) – And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Don’t just hear the word of God, but retain it and do what the words say.

Otherwise, you’ll forget it and won’t do it.

James 1:23-24 (KJV) – for if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Once you learn the word of God, afterward, you can’t not know.

Because the Holy Spirit will remind you.

John 14:26 (KJV) but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Satan will tell you don’t need to be saved.

He will tell you, you don’t need God.

You do. Call on God. He will save you.

Romans 10:13 (KJV) – whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

We don’t realize how much we choose satan over God.

Satan’s ways are easy and have consequences.

God’s ways may be hard to choose, but blessings are in the choice.

Choose God over satan . . . Many don’t.

Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV) – enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

The only sin you can commit against your body is fornication.

Singles  . . . run from fornication.

I Corinthians 6:18 (KJV) – flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

We pray for what we want.

We don’t want to wait for it.

And we expect it from man.

Wait for God and expect it from Him.

Psalm 62:5 (KJV) – my soul wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him.

We do want we want to do first, then do what we need to do and wonder why we fall short.

Give to our Father first and watch what He does with the rest.

Malachi 3:10 (KJV) – bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Do you love God?

Think about it, then answer.

If you really love God, you’ll do what He say.

John 14:15 (KJV) – if ye love me, keep my commandments.