Quote (Nov. 5, 2020): "A problem is a chance for you to do your best." (Duke Ellington)

Iniquity is a Problem, what are we going to do about it? Definitely hold yourself accountable in saying that if you LOVE any iniquity around you, it's not true love. It's a lust we are trying to attain (Dollar Store Version of God's Love).

1 Cor. 13:6-7

Quote (Nov. 4, 2020): "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Tit. 2:12 -> "Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;"

Quote (Nov. 2/3, 2020): "Whatever you are, be a good one." (Abraham Lincoln)

Romans 7:22-25 -> Delight in God's Law. We are at war with being a prisoner of the law of sin and God's law; but he will deliver us. 

2 Kings 18:3-8 -> "He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done."

2 Chron. 31:20-21 -> Hezekiah, throughout all Judah, did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God... He sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered."

2 Chron. 32:26 -> "Then Hezekiah repented of the PRIDE of his heart, as did the people of Jersualem; therefore the Lord's wrath did not come on them during the days of Hezekiah."

Quote (Nov. 1, 2020): "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." (Rosa Parks)

Gen. 4 -> Cain and Abel (The first siblings)

1 John 3:12 -> "Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. ... Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous."

Prov. 9:8 -> "Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you."

Prov. 17:10 -> "A rebuke impresses a discerning person more than a hundred lashes a fool." 

Quote (Oct. 31, 2020): "The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." (Doug Horton)

James 1:13-17
... God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed...
Don't be deceived...

Gal. 6:7-10
Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked.
A man reaps what he sows.
Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction;
Whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Quote (Oct. 30, 2020): "A rainbow is the product of physics working for your appreciation of beauty." (Kyle Hill)

"I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth." (Gen. 9:13)

Jer. 33:20-21
"If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time, then ... and David will no longer have a descendant to rign on his throne."

Hos. 2:19-20
"I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the LORD."

Quote (Oct. 29, 2020): "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." (Oprah Winfrey)

Matt. 1
v. 3 Tamar
v. 5 Rahab
v. 5 Ruth
v. 6 Bathsheba
v. 16 Mary

Quote (Oct. 28, 2020): "The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." (Deepak Chopra)

Psa. 68:4-6
"Sing to God, sing in praise of his name...
A father to the fatherless,
a defender of widows...

God sets the lonely in families,
he leads out the prisoners with singing..."

Quote (Oct. 26/27, 2020): "Let life surprise you."

-1 John 3:1-10-

v.1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!

v. 4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. (5) But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins.

v. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in them...

v. 10 The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way:
All who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love their brothers and sisters. 

Quote (Oct. 25, 2020): "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's Courage." (Anais Nin)

2 Cor. 8:9 -> By the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for our sake he became poor. So that by his poverty, we might become rich.

Matt. 18:23-25 -> Unforgiving servant. Shows importance of Forgiveness and Mercy.
Lk. 10:29 -> The Good Samaritan.
Luke 15:11-32 -> Prodigal Son.

Strong's G4697 Splagchnizomai:
To have bowels yearn, FEEL sympathy, to pity - Be MOVED WITH COMPASSION.