Nuggets and Pearls of Wisdom

Day 16 – Success and Progress (A Series)

PRESUMING ON TOMORROW—PROV. 27:1 DO NOT BOAST ABOUT TOMORROW, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH.

Day 15– Success and Progress (A Series)

PUTTING MINOR THINGS FIRST—LUKE 9:61-62 AND ANOTHER ALSO SAID, “LORD, I WILL FOLLOW YOU, BUT LET ME FIRST GO AND BID THEM FAREWELL WHO ARE AT MY HOUSE.” BUT JESUS SAID TO HIM, “NO ONE PUT HIS HAND TO THE PLOW, AND LOOKING BACK, IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”

Day 14 – Success and Progress (A Series)

DELAYING A DECISION—–MATT. 19:16,17,18-22 IN THESE VERSES WE FIND A YOUNG MAN ASKING JESUS WHAT HE SHOULD DO IN ORDER TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE? HE WAS TOLD TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS, NOT TO MURDER, COMMIT ADULTRY, NOT TO STEAL NOR BEAR FALSE WITNESS, TO LOVE HIS NEIGBOR  AS HIMSELF. THE YOUNG MAN SAIDTO HIM, “ALL THESE THINGS I HAVE KEPT FROM MY YOUTH, WHAT WAS LACKING? HE WAS THEN TOLD TO GO SELL WHAT HE HAD AND GIVE TO THE POOR, BUT WHEN HE HEARD THAT SAYING, HE WENT AWAY SORROWFUL FOR HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS.

Day 13 – Success and Progress (A Series)

IT”S NOW TIME TO PUT AN END TO PROCRASTINATION.

PROCRASTINATION IS PUTTING OFF SOMETHING FOR ANOTHER TIME OR SEASON.

PROCRASTINATION —–MANIFESTED IN:

DELAYING A DECISION

PUTTING MINOR THINGS FIRST

PRESUMING ON TOMORROW

REJECTING REPROOF

EVILS OF, MISSING:

SALVATION, LIFE’S IMPORTANCE, AND GOD’S OPPORTUNITY

Day 12 – Success and Progress (A Series)

LOVE OF THE WORLD—-MATT. 16:26 “FOR WHAT PROFIT IS IT TO A MAN IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSES HIS OWN SOUL?  WHAT WILL A MAN GIVE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?

Day 11 – Success and Progress (A Series)

SLUGGISHNESS——PROV. 24: 30-31 I WENT BY THE FIELD OF THE LAZY MAN, AND BY THE VINEYARD OF THE MAN DEVOID OF UNDERSTANDING; AND THERE IT WAS, ALL OVERGROWN WITH THORNS; ITS SURFACE WAS COVERED WITH NETTLES: ITS STONE WALL WAS BROKEN DOWN. WHEN I SAW IT, I CONSIDERED IT WELL; I LOOKED ON IT AND RECEIVED INSTRUCTION; A LITTLE SLEEP, A LITTLE SLUMBER,  A LITTLE FOLDING OF THE HANDS TO REST; “SO SHALL YOUR POVERTY COME LIKE A PROWLER, AND YOUR NEED LIKE AN ARMED MAN.

Day 10 – Success and Progress (A Series)

 

ENEMIES—-NEH. 4:1-2 BUT IT SO HAPPENED, WHEN SANBALLAT HEARD THAT WE WERE REBUILDING THE WALL, THAT HE WAS FURIOUS AND VERY INDIGNANT, AND MOCKED THE JEWS. AND HE SPOKE BEFORE HIS BRETHERN AND THE ARMY OF SAMARIA, AND SAID, “WHAT ARE THESE FEEBLE JEWS DOING? WILL THEY FORTIFY THEMSELVES? WILL THEY OFFER SACRIFICES? WILL THEY COMPLETE IT IN A DAY? WILL THEY REVIVE THE STONES FROM THE HEAPS OF RUBBISH- STONES THAT ARE BURNED?

Day 9 – Success and Progress (A Series)

UNBELIEF——-HEB. 4:6-11 SINCE THEREFORE IT REMAINS THAT SOME MUST ENTER IT (REST), AND THOSE TO WHOM IT WAS FIRST PREACHED DID NOT ENTER BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE. LET US THEREFORE BE DILIGENT TO ENTER THAT REST, LEAST ANYONE FAIL ACCORDING TO THE SAME EXAMPLE OF DISOBEDIENCE.

Day 8 – Success and Progress (A Series)

HINDRANCES AS SEEN IN:

UNBELIEF

ENEMIES

SLUGGISHNESS

LOVE OF THE WORLD

PROCRASTINATION

Day 7 – Success and Progress (A Series)

HINDRANCES

THE DEFINITION OF HINDRANCE IS: THE ACT OF DELAYING, INTERRUPTING; THE CAUSE OF SUCH DIFFICULTY.