Schooled: Wise Up: Proverbs 3:5-10

 

Why Tithing Is Wise…

1. Honors the Lord

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 3:9-10 (ESV)

One tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD and must be set apart to him as holy.
Leviticus 27:30 (NLT)

2. Allows God to Bless Me

Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 3:9-10 (ESV)

Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything. The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
Proverbs 11:24-25 (NLT)

3. Protects Me from Becoming Selfish

The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.
Proverbs 11:24 (Mess)

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:10 (NLT)

4. Makes Me Trust God

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and  do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he  l will make straight your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. 9 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
Proverbs 3:5-10 (ESV)

5. Teaches Me Discipline

We should make plans—counting on God to direct us.
Proverbs 16: 9 (LB)

The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5 (NKJV)

6. Brings Me Joy

A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
Proverbs 11:25 (NIV)

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Schooled: Better Living: Proverbs 2:1-22

 

How Can I Gain Wisdom?

1. Accept Eagerly

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you.
Proverbs 2:1 (CSB)

2. Acquire Continually

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you.
Proverbs 2:1 (CSB)

3. Listen Intently

…listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding…
Proverbs 2:2 (CSB)

Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.
Proverbs 2:2 (NLT)

4. Pray Earnestly

…furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding… then you will understand the fear of the Lord and discover the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:3-5 (CSB)

5. Search Diligently

…furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and discover the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:3-5 (CSB)

How Does God Respond?

1. He Gives Wisdom

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:6 (CSB)

Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and integrity—every good path.
Proverbs 2:9 (CSB)

2. He Grants Success

He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity.
Proverbs 2:7 (CSB)

3. He Guards Your Path

He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those who live with integrity so that he may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of his faithful followers.
Proverbs 2:7-8 (CSB)

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Walk This Way: Activate Your Faith: Mark 2:1-12

5 benchmarks of a growing faith

1. My Faith Motivates

So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and He was speaking the message to them. Then they came to Him bringing a paralytic, carried by four men.
Mark 2:2-3 (CSB)

2. My Faith Persists

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying.
Mark 2:4 (CSB)

3. My Faith Reconciles

Seeing their faith, Jesus told the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
Mark 2:5 (CSB)

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12 (CSB)

4. My Faith Provokes

Right away Jesus understood in His spirit that they were reasoning like this within themselves and said to them, “Why are you reasoning these things in your hearts? 9 Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your stretcher, and walk’? But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He told the paralytic, “I tell you: get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home.”
Mark 2:8-11 (CSB)

5. My Faith Praises

Immediately he got up, picked up the stretcher, and went out in front of everyone. As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
Mark 2:12 (CSB)

 

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Walk This Way: Moved: Mark 1:39-45

 

What moves the Heart of Jesus?

1. A Courageous Approach

Then a man with leprosy came to him and, on his knees, begged him, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
Mark 1:40 (CSB)

2. A Humble Plea

A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!”
Mark 1:40-41 (NLT)

Therefore, he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Therefore, submit to God…Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:6-10 (CSB)

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.
Psalm 51:17 (CSB)

3. A Faith-Filled Request

“If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!”
Mark 1:40-41 (NLT)

Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.”
Mark 9:23 (CSB)

How does Jesus respond?

1. A Compassionate Heart

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him.
Mark 1:41 (CSB)

2. A Loving Embrace

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched him. “I am willing,” he told him.
Mark 1:41 (CSB)

3. A Total Healing

Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 
Mark 1:42 (CSB)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17 (CSB)

The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9 (CSB)

source https://edgechurchcolorado.com/walk-this-way-moved-mark-139-45/