- • If our heart is not right with our brother, God cannot accept our sacrifice, as was with Cain.
• Psalm 23 – know the Psalm, or know the Shepherd? It’s a personal relationship
• The Publican and the Pharisee (?) went to pray – it didn’t matter what they were in life – and God wanted them to be in the place of prayer – but their works mattered.
• All passed the man fallen in the ditch, but one, the good Samaritan, gave hope of life again – like our Lord Jesus
• we have come to Convention how many times? Hannah didn’t count how many times but it was the condition of her heart that counted.
• Esau speaks of the flesh, Jacob of the divine – both Esau and Jacob buried Isaac – both nature’s will be with us until we die. We must pay the price so the divine is seen when we die.
• True humility is absence of pride.
• Joseph’s brothers had no liberty with God for all those years because of one little lie.
• A worm starts in the blossom and later rots the apple from the inside. The devil works on the inside.
• Our inability or weakness should not hold us back – Mephibosheth couldn’t flee with king David from Absolom, but left off shaving, washing and changing and wept with the king…
• Hannah was filled with grief and sorrow that she didn’t even have place for food – lost her appetite… but it changed when she poured out and gave place for what God had to give.
• Joseph’s brethren had to bring Benjamin in order to get food… the price of bread is obedience.
• Naham’ s lesson was – just obey to live!
• The Lord we serve can give bread and more! The problem with me not being filled is because of being filled with other things.
• Jesus was in this world but His heart was with His Father.
• The world is interested in giving bread but God is interested that His children be bread.
• A corn of wheat can not be bread unless it falls into the ground and dies.
• The yoke is easy to those who obey.
• If Pilate had ever regretted, maybe it was that he never waited for the answer to, “What is Truth?”
• Temptations may come but we still want to say, “Yes!”
• Hold on with our hearts, not our hands.
• Truly drawing near to God is with a true heart.
• Jesus was laid in a manger- a place of feeding. God’s heart and mind was that His people be fed by His Son.
• The truth is still truth, even if not many speak it or uphold it.
• I cannot now go back for I have a good Shepherd!
• We can widen the road to the wells of this earth but still to no avail…
• We have life at birth. Then God gives new life. Then, eternal life.
• Christ can only intercede for those who don’t excuse themselves.
• We don’t speak of a dead Saviour but a living Saviour.
• In the rain, we put open containers under the roof edge, not leaking vessels. Blessed are those who open their hearts!
• True faith is when the unseen is clearer than the seen.
• A living relationship with God helps Him to respect our sacrifice as He did to Abel.
• If we understand God’s heart, it helps us bring an acceptable offering.
• Feeding His lambs and sheep is how I treat others.
• It’s hard to work without love.
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