{"id":8722,"date":"2017-01-23T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2017-01-23T22:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T06:04:23","slug":"integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/23\/integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

“O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.”<\/p>\n

“As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Psalms 25:20\u00a0\u00a0Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.\u00a0May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 121:7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The LORD will keep you from all evil;<\/strong> he will keep your life.<\/p>\n

Psalms 71:1-2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In you, O LORD, do I take refuge<\/strong>; let me never be put to shame!<\/p>\n

Joel 2:26\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you<\/p>\n

Proverbs 20:7\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The righteous who walks in his integrity<\/strong>\u2014 blessed are his children after him!<\/p>\n

Proverbs 11:3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The integrity of the upright guides them<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acts 24:16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 18:20\u00a0\u00a0The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.\u00a0\u00a0For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.\u00a0\u00a0For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.<\/p>\n

Psalms 7:8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Psalms 26:11\u00a0\u00a0But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity<\/strong>; redeem me, and be gracious to me.<\/p>\n

Having strong moral principles and being honest deserve some thought. \u00a0How do we judge our moral principles (integrity)? \u00a0By what standard do we use or should we use to know our moral compass has the right heading? \u00a0If the culture of our society says murder is ok would we have moral principles if we agreed with this? \u00a0 \u00a0One example; Worldwide 40-50 million living babies in the womb are killed every year. \u00a0Do our moral principles say this is wrong or right? \u00a0It is critical to understand what we base our principles on. \u00a0It can get very confusing. \u00a0Social media at our finger tips can easily play into defining our moral stance. Where do we find solid ground? \u00a0How do we stay grounded and not moved? \u00a0God’s word says that His laws have been written on every mind and heart. \u00a0For the most part we know wrong from right but for some reason we seem to want to define our own wrong and right – we justify it in our mind. \u00a0If we question our stance, as it may be contrary to what God is speaking to our heart, we search out others who think the same and then justify our stance on like minded people. \u00a0David said he the ways of the Lord, and God’s rules and statutes were never put away. \u00a0He kept them before himself. \u00a0Writing them on his heart and mind, meditating on them when the sun rose and set. \u00a0God’s word is truth – if you don’t start here you will never have a basis on which to stand that has eternal benefit. \u00a0Every person gets to decide if they will believe in God, believe He will judge every man, believe there is nothing hidden from God, believe He alone has salvation, believe God will lead and direct them, believe God will protect them, believe God will be their salvation on the day of judgement, believe there is both heaven and hell, believe God will hear their prayer, believe God is living and ever present, AND THEY ARE ABLE TO BASE THIS ON HIS WORD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.” “As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.” Psalms 25:20\u00a0\u00a0Oh, … Continue reading “Integrity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[286,81,2298,2571,164,2576,2570,1781,2572,2078,1812,2573,2574,59,1974,2575,33,2211,111,2209,1161,517,655,2567,2569,1660,2566,2568],"class_list":["post-8722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-blameless","tag-blessed","tag-clear-conscience","tag-deliver-me","tag-evil","tag-gracious-to-me","tag-guard-my-soul","tag-guilt","tag-i-wait-for-you","tag-integrity","tag-judge-me","tag-keep-your-life","tag-kept-the-way-of-the-lord","tag-praise","tag-preserve-me","tag-redeem-me","tag-refuge","tag-rewarded-me","tag-rich","tag-rules","tag-satisfied","tag-shame","tag-statutes","tag-trusted","tag-uncertainty-of-riches","tag-upright","tag-walked-in-integrity","tag-without-wavering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8726,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}