If you are a true born again Christian, and living in sin? God will chasten, the conscience will prick, and the Spirit will hound you.

If none of these are happening and you are living as the world in the world? Check your status.

2 Cor 5 tells us of the Bema seat and the fear of disappointing the Father.

The Book of Malachi which was authored over 2500 years ago sounds almost like a playbook from the church of today.

If we do not tell them of God and His great works in our lives how will they be remembered when we go?

When we ignore these 2 resources, we lose our way and our power.

The blind beggar man, hearing that Jesus was walking by cried out Jesus thou Son of David have mercy on me.

Those that went before Jesus rebuked him, told him not to bother the great man. They forgot the blind beggar and those like him were precisely who Jesus was here for.

Jesus came along and said Peter let down your nets. Peter let down his net, and was surprised at the abundance of the blessing.

He says Lord get away from me for I am a sing=ful man, for he had not fully obeyed or believed.

Are we any different? Do we not act partially for we know better than the Spirit or the Word?

The Scribes, Pharisees and religious leaders did not recognize the Messiah when He came. Why?

Because He came in the way He knew was best not in they way they perceived. They wanted a strong good looking fellow, well spoken and of war.

What they got was a Messiah concerned for the eternal not the temporal.

Joshua gives his famous "as for me and my house" speech. Then he concludes it by telling them to go home and put away their false gods if they are going to commit themselves to Him.

Deborah was a prophetess and the only female Judge in the Bible. She leads Barak and his armies to battle but another woman, Jael, gets the victory.

We also give a shout out to Huldah another prophetess in the Old Testament.

Strong women of God are everywhere in the Old Testament.

Abigail, Sarah, Rebekah, Miriam and Hannah, all Godly women.