BIBLE BYTES -- The Bible is the GOAT! Verses and values from the Old and New Testaments!
When someone is an enemy or really gets under your skin, it can be sweet when they fall into trouble. But the Bible says not to take pleasure in it. Exercise self control. If you don’t, the Lord may be displeased with you and stop punishing them!
Proverbs 24:17-18 (TLB) 17 Do not rejoice when your enemy meets trouble. Let there be no gladness when he falls— 18 for the Lord may be displeased with you and stop punishing him!
9/26/2021
Receiving criticism is not easy. It is much easier to be defensive and criticize the one giving it. To one who listens, valid criticism is golden. Let God help you discern what is valid and gracefully accept it. God will let you know what is not valid so you can move on.
Proverbs 25:12 (NLT) 12 To one who listens, valid criticism is like a gold earring or other gold jewelry.
9/19/2021
David killed bears and lions while a young shepherd. Since God worked through him then, he knew he would work in him to save Israel from the threats of Goliath. With God you have more than you know. Depending solely on man-made solutions can hinder you.
1 Samuel 17:38-39 (TLB) 38-39 Then Saul gave David his own armor—a bronze helmet and a coat of mail. David put it on, strapped the sword over it, and took a step or two to see what it was like, for he had never worn such things before. “I can hardly move!” he exclaimed, and took them off again.
9/16/2021
If you go about doing things outside of God’s will, you can expect those things will not happily work out for you. Faith and love for God is compromised outside God’s plans for you. What will be working out is your accountability and that will not be pleasant.
Romans 8:28 (TLB) 28 And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans.
9/12/2021
God doesn’t “give” problems or trouble. Being human creates more than enough of them. However, he may allow them for reasons only he knows and in the scheme of things, the Bible says all trouble is small and temporary. You are repaid much greater than the trouble as you trust him.
2 Corinthians 4:17 (GNT) 17 And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble.
9/5/2021
