WHAT IS MAN
4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
Psalms 8:4 (NIV)
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile.
Psalms 94:11 (NIV)
5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. 7 But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. 8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:5-8 (NIV)
24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. 25 He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.
John 2:24-25 (NIV)
BUTTER
“To inoculate me from the praise of man, God baptized me into the criticism of man, until I died to the control of man.” Francis Frangipane
“In the Kingdom, there are no great men of God, just humble men whom God has chosen to use greatly. How do we know when we are humble? When God speaks, we tremble. God is looking for a man who trembles at His word. Such a man will find the Spirit of God resting upon him; he will become a dwelling place for the Almighty. God asks for nothing but ourselves.” Francis Frangipane
“God does not honor men and women and their deeds or their books or their organizations. The Father in heaven delights to honor His Son. It is only the Life of the Lord Jesus – His activity, clothed with you and displayed through you – that ultimately will find the approval of God.” Major Ian Thomas
HEART SAVOR
• I am to seek to please God first. All other relationships fall under that. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matt 6:33 (NIV)
• I am not to trust in flesh rather on the Lord. My confidence is to be in Him.
• Jesus never entrusted Himself to mere man when His feet walked this earth and neither should I.
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