Honor your mother, and your days will be longer.

AND . . .  It’s one of the commandments.

Exodus 20:12 (KJV) – honour thy Father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Touch! Ask! Agree! Receive!

In this life, when two of you agree, touch and ask, it will be given to you by our Father.

Matthew 18:19 (KJV) – again, I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

Satan always show up when you try to do good.

Try harder.

Romans 7:21 (KJV) – I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inner man.

We don’t just live by what we eat, but by every word spoken by God.

Matthew 4:4 (KJV) – but he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

We want to do good, but do the very thing we shouldn’t do.

Romans 7:19 (KJV) – for the good that I would do I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.

We take matters into our own hands because we don’t trust God to avenge others like we would.

That’s when things go sideways.

It’s not your place to avenge others. It belongs to God.

He will repay.

Romans 12:19 (KJV) – dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves,  but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,  Vengeance is mine; I will repay,  saith the Lord.

We all have been given gifts and received them.

They are not for yourselves but used for servanthood to help others.

I Peter 4:10 (KJV) – as every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Prioritize doing the will of God, and prepare yourself for the blessings of God.

Matthew 6:33 (KJV) – but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Kind words make the heart glad.

But when a man’s heart is worried, it weighs him down.

Proverbs 12:25 (KJV) – heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

If you confess your wrongdoing to God, He’ll forgive you and cleanse you from all your sin.

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.