James 1:19-21<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0My dear brothers and sisters,\u00a0take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak\u00a0and slow to become angry,\u00a020\u00a0because human anger\u00a0does not produce the righteousness that God desires.21\u00a0Therefore, get rid of\u00a0all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you,\u00a0which can save you.<\/i><\/p>\n
Psalm 37:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Refrain from anger\u00a0and turn from wrath; do not fret\u2014it leads only to evil.<\/i><\/p>\n
Hebrews 12:14<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Make every effort to live in peace with everyone\u00a0and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.<\/i><\/p>\n
Romans 12:18<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.<\/i><\/p>\n
Psalm 34:14<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Turn from evil and do good; seek peace\u00a0and pursue it.<\/i><\/p>\n
1 Peter 3:11 –\u00a0<\/b>They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.<\/i><\/p>\n
Losing one’s temper is not an exercise in freedom, it is revealing bondage to the corrupted flesh.\u00a0 Making excuses for losing one’s temper, or accusing others as being the reason for losing one’s temper, is only trying to find an excuse for the proof of the fall of mankind that fights for supremacy within us.\u00a0 True freedom is freedom to choose to give God full reign of us.\u00a0\u00a0It is asking Him to free us from the chains that bind us.\u00a0\u00a0Having submitted to God is to free God to daily transform us to being increasingly like Him, and thereby increasingly have His nature.\u00a0 Having His Spirit, His nature, we will love more, be more patient, be more compassionate and have a nature to heal and forgive rather than avenge and harm.\u00a0 Jesus is described in\u00a0Isaiah 9:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government\u00a0will be on his shoulders.\u00a0\u00a0And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,\u00a0Mighty God, Everlasting\u00a0Father,\u00a0Prince of Peace.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Jesus is great Reconciler, the great Mediator, and the great Peacemaker.\u00a0\u00a0Let us, through Jesus, have divinity within and throw off the corpse that clings to us so that we may live in the love and peace that God has called us to live in.\u00a0\u00a0We can do that through Jesus the Prince of Peace who is the very expression and evidence of God’s love (John 3:16, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 1:3<\/b>).\u00a0\u00a0Let us live by the Spirit and not our innate corrupted desires so that we may live and walk in His love and also be an expression and evidence of it to all we encounter.\u00a0 God is good all the time and He loves us.\u00a0 What a great and wise God we serve.\u00a0 How greatly He loves us, how patient and slow to become angry at us He is (2 Peter 3:9<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0Praise God!\u00a0\u00a0Yes, praise God!<\/p>\n
Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James 1:19-21\u00a0–\u00a0My dear brothers and sisters,\u00a0take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak\u00a0and slow to become angry,\u00a020\u00a0because human anger\u00a0does not produce the righteousness that God desires.21\u00a0Therefore, get rid of\u00a0all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you,\u00a0which can save you. Psalm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1863,104,103,1700,100,94,1874,90,17,10],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-colossians","tag-hebrews","tag-isaiah","tag-james","tag-john","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-peter","tag-psalm","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}