Friday, March 28, 2008

Who and What I Must Be and Have

Who I Must Be and What I Must Have (With His Help)

  • a temple of the Spirit
  • continuing in the things I have learned and been assured of
  • faithful
  • following every good work
  • gentleness
  • goodness
  • honest
  • joy
  • kindness
  • knowing what is acceptable to the Lord
  • love
  • manager of household
  • not ashamed
  • not conceited
  • not slanderous
  • obedient
  • patience
  • peace
  • peaceable
  • ready for ever good work
  • ready to give an answer
  • reported for good works
  • reverent
  • self control
  • showing all humility to all men
  • speaking evil of no one
  • subject to rulers/authority
  • temperate in all things (wineless, alert, watchful, vigilant, clear-headed)
  • walking in the Spirit
  • walking in wisdom

1 Timothy 3:11
1 Timothy 5:10–14
2 Timothy 3:14
Titus 3:1–2
Galatians 5:22–26
Ephesians 5:10–15

Who and What I DO NOT Want...

Who and What I DO NOT Want to Be

  • a backbiter
  • a busybody
  • a drunkard
  • a fornicator
  • a gossip, saying things I ought not
  • a liar
  • a hater of God
  • a lover of money
  • a lover of pleasure
  • a lover of self
  • a murderer
  • a reviler (destroying others with words)
  • a thief
  • a whisperer
  • a wrongdoer
  • adulterous
  • alienated from life
  • always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth
  • an extortioner (stealing indirectly)
  • an inventor of evil things
  • blasphemous
  • blind of heart
  • boastful
  • brutal
  • cheating
  • contentious
  • covetous
  • cowardly
  • deceived
  • despising good
  • disobedient
  • disobedient to parents
  • filled with all unrighteousness
  • foolish
  • full of deceit and evil-mindedness
  • full of envy, murder, and strife
  • given over to lewdness
  • hateful toward others
  • haughty
  • having a form of godliness but denying its power
  • having outbursts of wrath
  • having selfish ambitions
  • headstrong
  • heretical
  • homosexual
  • idle
  • idolatrous
  • jealous
  • led away by lust
  • lewd
  • living in malice and evil
  • loaded down with sins
  • loving falsehood
  • malicious
  • past feeling/apathetic
  • practicing falsehood
  • practicing magic arts
  • proud
  • serving lusts and pleasures
  • sexually immoral
  • slanderous
  • traitorous
  • unbelieving
  • unclean
  • undiscerning
  • unforgiving
  • unholy
  • unloving
  • unmerciful
  • unthankful
  • untrustworthy
  • vile
  • violent
  • wandering about from house to house
  • weak-willed/gullible
  • wicked
  • with a darkened understanding of God
  • without self-control
  • working uncleanness with greediness

Who and What I DO NOT Want

  • all of the above plus
  • creeping into households
  • disapproving concerning the truth
  • full of folly
  • making captives of gullible women
  • of a corrupt mind
  • resisting the truth

Romans 1:28–32
1 Corinthians 6:9–10
1 Timothy 5:13
2 Timothy 3:2–9
Titus 3:3
Ephesians 4:17–19
Galatians 5:19–21
Revelation 21:8, 22:15

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Who and What I Want...

Who and What I Want to Be
  • Focused on God wholly: running toward Him and seeing who passes me
  • Aware: not so smitten that I miss the truth
  • A safe haven (Prov. 31:11)
  • Supportive (Prov. 31:12)
  • Submissive but not stepped on (1 Pet. 3:1; 1 Tim. 2:11; Eph. 5:22)
  • Encouraging
  • Supportive
  • Virtuous (Prov. 31:10–31)
  • Loving
  • A goal-setter
  • Respectful (Eph. 5:33; Col. 3:18)
  • Always athletic and competitive, but not so much as to erect a wall (Prov. 31:17,25)
  • Pure: living an uncompromising life (Eph. 5:27; Tit. 2:4–5)
  • Open to the truth/opinion of others
  • Truthful
  • Honest
  • Reverent: serious in mind and character; not silly (1 Tim. 3:11)
  • Temperate: wineless; alert; vigilant; clear-headed (1 Tim. 3:11)
  • Faithful and trustworthy (1 Tim. 3:11)
  • Adorned in humility (1 Tim. 2:9)
Who and What I Want to Find
  • A Christ-follower: relationship with Him is top priority
  • A one-woman man: sexually pure (1 Tim. 3:2)
  • Worthy of respect (although not perfect, because that's impossible)
  • Kind and loving, but not fake (Prov. 31:28; 1 Cor. 7:3; Eph. 5:25,28)
  • Athletic, or at least willing to support me, cheer, and attend events
  • Pure: living an uncompromising life (1 Tim. 3:7)
  • A leader in spiritual walk (1 Tim. 2:8, 3:4; 1 Cor. 11:3)
  • A man of valor (Ruth 2:1; Judg. 6:12)
  • Courageous
  • A goal-setter
  • Temperate: wineless, alert, vigilant, clear-headed (1 Tim. 3:2)
  • Loving (Col. 3:19)
Exodus 40:1–16
Proverbs 31:10–31
1 Corinthians 7:3–4
1 Corinthians 11:3,7–12
Ephesians 5:22–33
Colossians 3:18–19
1 Timothy 3
2 Timothy 2
Titus 2:4–5
1 Peter 3:1–6

**Originally written 1-11-08; edited 3-15-08**