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Don’t Worry “Therefore, I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  Matthew 6:15 Don’t worry?  Is this even possible?  In the world weContinue reading “January 13, 2022”

Who do you serve? No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.  Matthew 6:24 Who do you serve?  You have probably never thought of it and maybeContinue reading “January 12, 2022”

Invest in your future “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there yourContinue reading “January 11, 2022”

What about fasting? “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.  Matthew 6:16 Here is yet another thing Jesus is telling His disciples that is toContinue reading “January 10, 2022”

Pray in secret But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Matthew 6:6 Apparently, in Jesus’s day, the religious leaders liked to get attention by prayingContinue reading “January 9, 2022”

Be good to others But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,  Matthew 6:3 Have you ever done something good or nice for someone and then nobody even notice or acknowledged it.  Maybe you felt slighted or maybe you let others know, becauseContinue reading “January 8, 2022”

Be children of God That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  Matthew 5:45 Have you ever thought about this?  Why does God let His sun rise on evil peopleContinue reading “January 7, 2022”

Be Generous And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.  Matthew 5:41 Generosity!  It is the ultimate example of what our God is.  He is extreme generous in all the He is and does.  His love is overflowingly generous in that He didn’t even spare His only son to show howContinue reading “January 6, 2022”

No smoke screen But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.  Matthew 5:37 When I was young, other kids would often say, “I swear on a stack of Bibles.”  Meaning they were being as honest and authentic as they could possibly be. Continue reading “January 5, 2022”

Cut it off And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.  Matthew 5:30 This scripture has always been a little disturbing to me. Continue reading “January 4, 2022”