| Num 23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!”
Num 23:12 And he answered and said, “Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?”
Num 23:13 Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, although you will only see the extreme end of them, and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”
Num 23:14 So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Num 23:15 And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I myself meet the LORD yonder.”
Num 23:16 Then the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Num 23:17 And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”
Num 23:18 Then he took up his discourse and said, “Arise, O Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!
Num 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Num 23:20 “Behold, I have received a command to bless; When He has blessed, then I cannot revoke it. |
| 1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
1 John 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
1 John 4:4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:5 They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
1 John 4:6 We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| Transforming Power Statements:
#1) Positive development and maturity in the Christian life are promised to the ones who learn and apply discernment which must be soundly biblically based and acted upon when prompted by the Holy Spirit our on-board teacher and guide.
#2) Love is the key principal to learning how to apply this knowledge to others in the body of Christ as opposed to those outside the church, yet both must be fervently pursued as we walk with God Who is LOVE.
#3) The Holy Scriptures are to be held up above all merely human platforms as the sole foundation of all faith and practices since this is clearly what the Word teaches. |
