James Alexander

Loose from darkness!

Psalm 18:25-28 (NLT)
To the faithful you show yourself faithful; to those with integrity you show integrity.

Job's trials

Job 2:1-10 (NLT)
One day the members of the heavenly court came again to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them.

How they created something to worship for them to see!

Romans 1:21-23 (NLT)
Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.

Accountability!

Deuteronomy 29:29 (NLT)
“The LORD our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.

Contentment 2

1 Timothy 6:6 (NLT)
Yet true godliness with contentment is itself great wealth.

Contentment

Philippians 4:11 (NLT)
Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.

Receiving wise advice

Proverbs 1:5 (NLT)
Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance

Having Mentors is important!

Exodus 18:13-27 (NLT)
The next day, Moses took his seat to hear the people’s disputes against each other. They waited before him from morning till evening.

God reconciled the world to himself through Jesus Christ! Christ

2 Corinthians 5:19 (NLT)
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.

Choosing to do the unnatural

Romans 1:26-27 (NLT)
That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.

The chosen have the option to rejoin his glory!

Romans 11:24 (NLT)
You, by nature, were a branch cut from a wild olive tree. So if God was willing to do something contrary to nature by grafting you into his cultivated tree, he will be far more eager to graft the original branches back into the tree where they belong.

David being open to the Holy Spirit!

2 Samuel 6:14-20 (NLT)
And David danced before the LORD with all his might, wearing a priestly garment.

2 Samuel 6:22-23 (NLT)
Yes, and I am willing to look even more foolish than this, even to be humiliated in my own eyes! But those servant girls you mentioned will indeed think I am distinguished!”

Controlling the tongue 2

Psalm 51:15 (NLT)
Unseal my lips, OLord, that my mouth may praise you.

Controlling the tongue

Psalm 34:13 (NLT)
Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies!

Jesus sustained them giving them everything they needed!

Nehemiah 9:19-23 (NLT)
“But in your great mercy you did not abandon them to die in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still led them forward by day, and the pillar of fire showed them the way through the night.

No Excuse

Romans 1:20 (NLT)
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

God's assured guidance

Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT)
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.

He will guide us even until death!

Psalm 48:14 (NLT)
For that is what God is like. He is our God forever and ever, and he will guide us until we die.

Judging those in the church

1 Corinthians 5:12 (NLT)
It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it certainly is your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning.

The virgin Donkey

Mark 11:2-3 (NLT)
“Go into that village over there,” he told them. “As soon as you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

Jesus tempted again 3rd time!

Luke 4:9-12 (NLT)
Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off!

Tempted yet again!

Luke 4:5-8 (NLT)
Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Jesus response to being tempted by satan

Luke 4:3-4 (NLT)
Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.”

Jesus response

Luke 4:12 (NLT)
Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the LORD your God.’”

Test not the Lord

Deuteronomy 6:16 (NLT)
You must not test the LORD your God as you did when you complained at Massah.