The DAILY VIEW Devotion

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Read Acts 17 and read the way to fill the spot reserved for a close relationship with God.
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Read ”Why Are You Praying to Me?” at https://www.devotionsfromthebible.com/judges/why-are-you-coming-to-me/
Too often, God is our last source of help, when He should be our first.

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Degrees of Backsliding
Dr. Haven

A Christian never falls suddenly from advanced Christian life to barrenness or open sin.  The stages in the descent are slow, and often almost imperceptible. 

Little negligences of duty bring darkness to the soul, and eat out its spiritual joy.  Little temptations betray it to the power of the enemy. By gradual departures from God, and little indulgences in sin, one at length falls into total backsliding and apostasy.  The following may serve as an admonitory list of the steps taken in the downward path:

• Neglect of secret prayer: Job 15:4.
• Disregard for the Bible: Jeremiah 6:19, Hosea 4:6.
• Worldly-mindedness: II Timothy 4:10.
• A quarrelsome spirit: Isaiah 29:20-21, I Cor. 3:3.
• Dwelling on the faults of others: Matt. 7:3-5.
• Readiness to take offense: Prov. 14:17-19.
• A murmuring spirit: I Cor. 10:10.
• A critical hearing of the Word: I Cor. 3:1-4.
• Covetousness: Luke 12:15, Col. 3:5.
• Light thoughts of sin: Matt. 22:5.
• Indulgence in secret sin: Num. 32:23, Eccl. 12:14.
• Falling into outward sin: Hosea 4:16-17, Eph. 5:3-8.
• Persecuting the righteous:  Acts 7:52-53.

What to Preach
Author Unknown

A boy was watching his father, a pastor, write a sermon.  “How do you know what to say?” he asked.

“Why, God tells me.”

“Oh, then why do you keep crossing things out?”

Wise Words:
“Better shun the bait rather than struggle in the snare.”  — John Dryden

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