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1st week: read Romans 6:23 in context, copy it on a 3x5 card, & review the verse every day.

Romans 6:23  "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."  Romans 6:23

2nd week: review Romans 3:23 every day.

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"Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain." Ps. 76:10

Wicked men will be wrathful. Their anger we must endure as the badge of our calling, the token of our separation from them: if we were of the world, the world would love its own. Our comfort is that the wrath of man shall be made to redound to the glory of God. When in their wrath the wicked crucified the Son of God they were unwittingly fulfilling the divine purpose, and in a thousand cases the willfulness of the ungodly is doing the same. They think themselves free, but like convicts in chains they are unconsciously working out the decrees of the Almighty.

The devices of the wicked are overruled for their defeat. They act in a suicidal way, and baffle their own plottings. Nothing will come of their wrath which can do us real harm. When they burned the martyrs, the smoke which blew from the stake sickened men of Popery more than anything else.

Meanwhile, the Lord has a muzzle and a chain for bears. He restrains the more furious wrath of the enemy. He is like a miller who holds back the mass of the water in the stream, and what he does allow to flow he uses for the turning of his wheel. Let us not sigh, but sing. All is well, however hard the wind blows.

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For those Mighty Men who are interested in getting God's Word deep in their hearts.... this is a system that works wonderfully.   Modify it to best fit your needs.

1st week: read the verse in context, copy it on a 3x5 card, & review the verse every day.

2nd week: review the verse every day.

3rd week: review the verse Monday, Wednesday, & Friday.

4th week: review the verse Tuesday & Thursday.

5th, 6th, 7th, 8th weeks: review the verse on the weekend.

Periodically review past verses.

A 3x5 card file works well for storing the verses.  Cut down 4x6 cards to make dividers.  Carry the verse with you so you can review it when you ... start your car, start a meal, pray, greet your kids, etc.  Cutting the card in 1/2 and putting the reference on the back is a great way to memorize. 

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VOW : Verse Of the Week 8/26/10 :  Romans 3:23  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23    (NASB - New American Standard Bible)

Review this verse every day (multiple times), meditate on it/think on it

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This morning we had a guest pastor at our church. He had prepared a message on .... I don't remember what he was going to speak about. Earlier that morning during prayer he had felt a calling to NOT speak on ___ but to speak to the church, to tell the church, "repent, God is calling you to repent." In order to have REVIVAL in Kalamazoo, believers need to repent. Re- is a prefix that means to do again. Re-vival is to bring back to life. We need to revive ourselves, then the culture will follow us and come close to God.

The text he used was 2Chronicles 7:13,14 "If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land." He spoke about the believer's repentance and the land will be healed. Revival always comes after people humbling themselves and praying.

In light of our discussion on Thursday night, we need to repent. We have grieved the heart of God. We have grieved the Holy Spirit. I need to repent. The lust of the mind. "If you have looked at a woman with lust in your heart, you have committed adultery in your heart." Matthew 5:28 I am as guilty as any other guy in the room. I call on the men of the Mighty Men Training Institute to join me in repenting. You all have permission to ask me, "How's your thought life?"

For an excellent prayer of repentance, read Anthony Carter's prayer in a previous blog entry.

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"Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest." Josh. 1:7

Yes, the Lord will be with us in our holy war, but He demands of us that we strictly follow His rules. Our victories will very much depend upon our obeying Him with all our heart, throwing strength and courage into the actions of our faith. If we are halfhearted we cannot expect more than half a blessing.

We must obey the Lord with care and thoughtfulness. "Observe to do" is the phrase used, and it is full of meaning. This is referred to every part of the divine will; we must obey with universal readiness. Our rule of conduct is "according to all the law." We may not pick and choose, but we must take the Lord's commands as they come, one and all. In all this we must go on with exactness and constancy. Ours is to be a straightforward course, which bends neither to the right nor to the left. We are not to err by being more rigid than the law, nor turn out of levity to a more free and easy way. With such obedience there will come spiritual prosperity. O Lord, help us to see if it be not even so! We shall not test thy promise in vain.

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