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“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” - Proverbs 4:23
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.” - Colossians 3:13
EXPLORATION
The views of others are bound to differ from ours. Beloved, offenses are bound to come. This is because people are different in the levels of their knowledge either in spiritual or secular matters, likewise in professional discipline, cultural or racial background — and even in spiritual gifts.
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abides not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." - John 15: 5-6
"My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you," - Galatians 4:19
EXPLORATION
Beloved, do you know that God wants you to be an influence on your generation through Christ Jesus? HE wants us to affect people for Him with the gospel, and for us to accomplish this we must be prayerful...
"But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, ..." - Acts 26:16-18 Read (Acts 9:15-16)
"For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life." - 2 Kings 7:6-7 Read (2 Kings 19: 6-7, 34-37)
"For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief." - Hebrews 3:16-19 (NKJV)
Unbelief is always that very hinders between a person and the blessings of God. Unbelief to some is like a sickness that needs to be cured.