Wednesday Night, April 23, 2014
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Wednesday Night, April 23, 2014
Scriptures:James 1, Matthew 12, Proverbs 23, Psalms 73, Proverbs 9
Notes:
How have you really changed because of God’s word?
What do you do differently since learning about the word?
Is your personality the same, or have you grown in Christ? Are you one of those people who never really changes?
If someone doesn’t feel like changing, whether it is right or wrong, they will not change.
Being convicted by the word and learning what is wrong with you, but not changing is not good.
God uses the word so that you can be better.
James 1:24-27
Don’t always deal with what you are comfortable with but also with what you are to be faithful with.
If your plans have not changed, then you have not planned to change.
Have you allowed God to change you?
Remember most times change happens drastically.
There are certain things that don’t work like going to bible study and next week not remembering what was discussed.
If you would have applied the word that was taught to your life, you would be a different person.
Evil voices and influences affects the heart. That’s why you have to give your heart over to God.
You have to get rid of the evil in your heart, or you will deceive yourself.
People care about choices and consequences not because they are right but because of what they can get out of it that benefits themselves.
Words and the control of your tongue are important.
Matthew 12:36-37
Arguments should be justified if you are going to get involved in one. It should be justified by the word and not your feelings.
If you feel like you have not changed, it’s because your heart is the same.
Repentance is not being sorry, feeling convicted, or saying sorry.
If you did not changed, you are not sorry.
If faced with the same situation and you act the same way, you are not changed.
People are disobedient because they are not of God. Those that are of God hear his word and keep his commandments.
If you cannot control your mouth and the things that you say, your religion is without power.
If you only say how you feel, then that’s not right.
Proverbs 23:15
Speak words of faith and not words with lack of hope and strength.