Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

Mental confusion can be the product of divine discipline.

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.