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    Original https://amber-embed.faithlife.com/shares/8g9F9zZ2jskVgArJ Sunday Morning Worship February 26, 2023 "Convictions and lifestyle determines your view of God" Dan. 1:8
    1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established". Prov. 15:22 (KJV) We can benefit fro those who can enlarge our vision and broaden our perspectives. There is much to profit from being able to hear and be open to new ideas. Praying and carefully considering good counseling only makes us stronger and more useful.
      1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "The heart of him that hath understanding seekers knowledge: but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness." Prov. 15:14 (KJV) What we feed our minds influences our total health and well being. Thus a strong desire to discover Gods truth is the way to become wise.
        1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is those who withhold more than is meet, but it leads to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself." Prov. 11:24-25 (NKJV) Giving helps us gain a right perspective on life and our possessions. Giving helps us obtain a sense of joy as we help others. We can't beat God giving no matter how hard we try to or not to!
          1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness." Prov. 11:5-6 (KJV) Giving an account of our deeds is a spiritual reality. Our salvation in God does not exclude us from the struggles in life. However we are assured of eternal life because we live a life according to His righteousness.
            1. Good morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Prov. 8:14-17 (KJV) "True religion gives men the best counsel in all difficult circumstances."
              1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "Hear; for I speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. Prov. 8:6-11 (KJV) "None of wisdom's words are crooked or perverse. They point us in the right direction."
                1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, arrogancy, the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Prov. 8:13 (KJV) The more a person respects and fears God, the more he or she will despise evil.
                  1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments and live; and my laws as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattery with her words. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths, for she has cast down many wounded: yea many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. Prov. 7:1-5, 25-27 (KJV) Recognize the strategies of temptation and run away from them. Strive to make sure your life is full of God's Word and wisdom.
                    1. Good Morning Johnson Chapel Family, Friends, and Followers! "Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eye-lids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? Prov. 6:25-28 (KJV) God's laws are not arbitrary. They do not forbid good, clean fun, rather they warn us against destroying ourselves through unwise choices and rebellion against His word.