Believers' Digest A Devotional Resource for Spiritual Growth ► Listen to This Devotion Cultivating Godly Demeanour Bible Reading: Proverbs 31:10–31; 1 Peter 3:3–10 Key Verse "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised." — Proverbs 31:30 (KJV) The greatest influence a believer can exert upon the world is not through wealth, status, or eloquence, but through a life that consistently reflects the character of Jesus Christ. In these perilous times, when moral values are rapidly declining and ungodliness is gradually becoming the order of the day, God is calling you and I to stand out as shining lights through a godly demeanour. A godly demeanour is the outward manifestation of an inward transformation produced by genuine salvation. It is evidenced by humility, holiness, love, purity, gracious speech, obedience to God's Word, steadfast faith, and...
Posterity has it that at either every occasion warranting the display of superior authority, God always wins. HEAD OR TAIL, GOD WINS ❀ ✿ ❀ ✿ ❀ Bible Reading: Nehemiah 6:15,16 Key Verse "And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God" (Nehemiah 6:16, KJV). ✿ ❀ ✿ ❀ ✿ A most foolish and perilous thing to do is to resist or fight the Almighty God. Gamaliel, the celebrated doctor of the law and Pharisee at the time of the persecution of the early church, gave a very brilliant advice to his comrades at the supreme council of the Jewish people. "…Refrain from these men, and let them alone" he said, "for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest hap...