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PROVERBS 10:6
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

INSPIRATION:
We know that our future, as children of God, is a blessed future – filled with joy and peace. But the wicked face a terrible future faced with pain, sorrow, and great violence. We need to make sure that we do not stop preaching to the wicked so that they can turn from their ways and become saved. They are God's children too.

PRAYER:
Dear God, I pray for any person who operates wickedly – whether they know it or not. Lord, I pray that they will come to the knowledge of who you are and they will repent. I desire to see more and more people become your children, Lord. Thank you that it will be so. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

Have a fruitful Thursday...

GEN. 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

INSPIRATION

The forbidden fruit is illustrative of temptation and sin in general. Eve took and ate what God had commanded her not to eat due to three factors: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the prideful desire to acquire "wisdom" apart from God. We too struggle in today in all three areas in striving to resist sin.

PRAYER

You have promised, Lord, to always provide a door of escape when we face temptations. But we must be looking for that escape hatch and must be willing to use it. We are tempted to please our bodies, eyes, and prideful minds more than to please you; but by your grace, Lord, we can overcome every temptation that Satan may attack us with in Jesus name. Amen.