Tag: daily devotion

SHARPEN YOUR AXE THE SEED “If your axe is dull and you don’t sharpen it, you have to work harder to use it. It is smarter to plan.” — Ecclesiastes 10:10 (GNT)

GUARD YOUR WORDS AND THOUGHTS THE SEED “Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.” — Ecclesiastes 10:20 (ESV)

EMBRACE A BALANCED LIFE THE SEED “Only someone too stupid to find his way home would wear himself out with work.” — Ecclesiastes 10:15 (GNT)

WALK CLOSELY WITH THE MASTER THE SEED “But Peter followed him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.” — Matthew 26:58 (NIV)

GUARD YOUR ACTIONS WISELY THE SEED “Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. Whoever quarries stones may be injured by them; whoever splits logs may be endangered by them.” — Ecclesiastes 10:8–9 (NIV)

RESPOND WITH BLESSING, NOT REVENGE THE SEED “Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.” — 1 Peter 3:9 (ESV)

FEED YOUR SPIRIT DAILY THE SEED “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” — John 6:51 (KJV)

DON’T DWELL ON THE PAST THE SEED “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.”— Isaiah 43: 18 (KJV)

FORGIVE AND BE FREE THE SEED “And Joseph said to his brothers, ‘Please come near to me.’ So they came near. Then he said: ‘I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.’”  Genesis 45:4 (NKJV)

DEPRESSION IS NOT YOUR PORTION THE SEED “My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.”  Psalm 102:4 (NKJV)