WISE RELATIONSHIPS

Faith That Works

Scott Young ~ Pastor of Hope

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? – James 4:1

1. Look To God As Your Source and Supply

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. – James 4:2

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2. Practice Generosity

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. – James 4:3

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3. Choose God Loving Friends

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. – James 4:4

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4. Walk In Humility

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” – James 4:5

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5. Draw Near To God

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. – James 4:7

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6. Speak No Evil

Don’t criticize and speak evil about each other, dear brothers. If you do, you will be fighting against God’s law of loving one another, declaring it is wrong. But your job is not to decide whether this law is right or wrong, but to obey it. – James 4:11

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