Walter Spires - Minutes For Men

Transforming is a "thinking" process.  Key Bible Verses:  "...and be transformed by the renewing of your mind..."  Romans 12: 2 "But we have the mind of Christ."  1 Corinthians 2: 16

Key Bible Verses:  "...mourn with those who mourn."  Romans 12: 15b   "...always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence"  1 Peter 3: 15

Key Bible Verses:  "Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. 2 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation..."  Hebrews 2: 1-3

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone."   Luke 18: 19

"And just as it is appointed for man to die once..."   Hebrew 9: 27(a)

As I prayed for the families of the nine victims of the recent tragic helicopeter accident, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me to use this week to speak biblical truth into the lives of poeple on both sides of the Cross - addressing the hard questions.  

Key Bible Verses:  "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one..  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.   Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.  As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."  John 17: 15-18

Bible References:  "The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want."  Psalm 23: 1  ( a song of peace and contentment in the LORD) "Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions."  Psalm 51: 1 (a prayer of repentance)

Bible References:  "God called to (Moses) from the midst of the (burning) bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am...Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh?"  Exodus 3: 4, 11 Psalm 90 - The Psalm of Moses the man of God

Key Bible Verse:  "Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD."  Genesis 4: 26(b)

Key Bible Verse:  "And (Jesus) said to them, "When you pray..."   Luke 11: 2(a) Bible References:  Matthew 6: 6 - 13 ; Luke 11:  1-4

Key Bible Verse;  "It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.""  Luke 11: 1 

Key Bible Verse:  "Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."  Proverbs 27: 17 Other Bible References:  Daniel 1: 17 - 20; Mark 9: 2; Mark 14: 33

Key Bible Verse:  "But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness to pray."  Luke 5: 16 Other Bible References:  Matthew 14: 23; Mark 1: 35

Key Bible Verse:  "Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God."  Luke 8: 11 Other Bible References:  John 15: 1-9;  Hebrews 4: 12

As Christians, we are not in a game.  we are in a war...spiritual war.   Bible references:  2 Corinthians 10: 4; Ephesians 6: 10 - 20

Jesus thought so. Bible References:  Luke 8: 4 - 15; John 15:  1 - 11

if you never listen to anything else I record and post, please take two minutes to listen to the podcasts this week.    This first one is the most important of the three. Key Bible Verses:  John 3:3; 14:6

Key Bible Verse(s):  "Rejoice always.  Pray without ceasing.  In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."  1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18

Key Bible Verses:  "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,  Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."   Philippians 2: 5 - 8