1 John 5:21, “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” What don’t you have that would make you completely happy and satisfied? Does anything come to mind? How often have you wanted “more of,” be it money, friends, a more prominent place to live in, or recognition of achievements, to be content? These are all temporary. …
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1 John 5:18-20, “We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And …
1 John 5:14-15, “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.” When you pray, do you …
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1 John 5:11-12, “And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” Are you practicing being in the presence of Jesus as you go about your daily tasks? …
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1 John 5:4, “For everyone that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” Do you feel like you have been carrying a …
1 John 4:18, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” What fears do you have? “If people are afraid, it is because of something in the past that haunts them, or something in the …
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1 John 4:4-6, “Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; …
1 John 3:21-24, “Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God, and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just …
1 John 3:6-8, “No one who abides in him keeps sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been …
1 John 3:2, “Beloved, we are God’s children, now and what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” Can you imagine never being sick or aging again? What about being continually filled by the Holy …
