{"id":41290,"date":"2018-06-06T05:28:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=41290"},"modified":"2018-06-06T05:28:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:28:06","slug":"do-not-be-double-minded-and-unstable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/06\/do-not-be-double-minded-and-unstable\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not be double-minded and unstable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"verseid:19.119.81\"><b>Psalms 119:81<\/b>\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word. \u00a0My eyes long for your promise; I ask, \u201cWhen will you comfort me?\u201d \u00a0For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. \u00a0How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me? \u00a0The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law. \u00a0All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me! They have almost made an end of me on earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts. \u00a0In your steadfast love give me life, that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.119.20\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 119:20<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.119.40\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 119:40<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.42.1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 42:1-2<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b> As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.\u00a0\u00a0My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.84.2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 84:2<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.119.42\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 119:42<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.119.74\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 119:74<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.119.77\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 119:77<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:66.3.15\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Revelation 3:15-16<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201c\u2018I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!\u00a0\u00a0So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:66.3.1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Revelation 3:1<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u201cAnd to the angel of the church in Sardis write: \u2018The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. \u201c\u2018I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:40.24.12\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Matthew 24:12<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:19.81.11\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Psalms 81:11-13<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBut my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.\u00a0\u00a0So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:6.24.15\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Joshua 24:15-24<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"verseid:40.6.24\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Matthew 6:24<\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cNo one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"> <a href=\"verseid:59.1.8\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>James 1:8<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">There are many things that can lead us down a path of being &#8220;lukewarm or double-minded&#8221;.\u00a0 Probably the most influential would be being complacent with and neglecting God&#8217;s word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">His word is a lamp unto my feet,\u00a0food to my soul, strength to my heart, encouragement to my mind.\u00a0 In and through His word is the &#8220;Good News&#8221; of the gospel of Jesus Christ, our savior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Determine in and through His word what it means to humbly serve, honor, glorify, follow and obey Him.\u00a0 Learn of His holiness, grace, mercy, and love.\u00a0 Learn of His promises.\u00a0 Learn to hear His quiet whispers of leading.\u00a0 Learn to trust in, rely on, and cling to Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 119:81\u00a0\u00a0 My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word. \u00a0My eyes long for your promise; I ask, \u201cWhen will you comfort me?\u201d \u00a0For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. \u00a0How long must your servant endure? 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