A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold is as pictures of silver.(Prov.25:11) It is so important to speak the right words to people at the right time to produce the right results. When you think of apples of gold in pictures of silver, then you are thinking of wealth and excellence. When we speak wisdom into the lives of others we are making them wealthy. Therefore we must seek God for He is the source of all wisdom and He will give us just the right words needed at the right time.
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#And He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint. Luke 18:1
#And when He was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said the kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or there! for behold, the kingdom of God is within you. And he said unto the disciples the days will come when ye shall desire to see of the days of the Son of man and ye shall not see it. And they shall say to you see here: or, see there go not after them or follow them. For as the lightning that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in His day. But first, must He suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. Luke 17:20-25
#And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, be thou planted in the sea and it should obey you. Luke 17:5,6
#Then said He unto the disciples, it is impossible but that offenses will come but woe unto him, through whom they come! It was better for him that a millstone was hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea than that he should offend one of these little ones. Luke 17:1,2
#Whosoever putteth away his wife and marries another committeth adultery. And whosoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery. Luke 16:18
#And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful in also much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? Luke 16:9-11
Jesus tells this story of the steward who was faithful in the unrighteous mammon as a sign that the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. We must learn how to manage the unrighteous wealth of this world for our Heavenly Father to trust us with the true riches of the heavenly kingdom. For the principle is he that is faithful in little will be faithful in much. So despise not the day of small things for our Heavenly Father is just preparing us for something much greater in the kingdom of God. Learn from the wise steward who used the unrighteous mammon of his master wisely. For our Heavenly Father is giving us the opportunity to be faithful to the true riches of the kingdom, so use them wisely.
#And He said a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said father, father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me, and he divided unto him his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his substance on riotus living. And when he spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into the fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him. And when He came to himself, he said how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him father I have sinned against heaven and before thee. And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him Father I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet; And bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry: For this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. Luke 15:11-24
#Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she loses one piece, doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently till she finds it. And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together saying rejoice with me, for I have found the piece that was lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.Luke 15:8-10
Jesus uses this woman to illustrate the persistence of God in finding the one lost sinner, as the woman swept the whole house until she found the lost silver of hers. There will be great joy in heaven as the angels of God rejoice over the one sinner who repents of his sin, This reminds us when we were lost in sin and God did not give up on us but the Holy Spirit chasened us until we repented. This is a great lesson to be patient with other people who have gone astray and pray for them to repent. May the Lord give us that patience to wait on God to do a work in their lives. As God is not willing to any would perish, but that all men will come to repentance.
#What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he finds it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them rejoice with me: for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise, joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repented, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Luke 15:4-7
#And the Lord said unto the servant, go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled, for I say unto you, that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. Luke 14:23,24