Sometimes the mercy of God is not only found in being rescued...Sometimes the mercy of God is found in being stopped.

Scripture of the Day:

Proverbs 4:23: Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. (NLT)

Jonah 2:6: I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;

The earth with her bars was about me for ever:

Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. (KJV)

Proverbs 20:9: Who can say, I have made my heart clean,

I am pure from my sin? (KJV)

In this first devotional of The Salvation of Telling Ourselves No series, we reflect on Proverbs 14:8-10, 12 and Jeremiah 17:9 to examine the danger of being led by every desire of the heart. Sometimes what feels right can still lead us away from wisdom, peace, and wholeness. This episode is a reminder that telling ourselves “no” can be an act of protection, discipline, and spiritual rescue.

Scripture of the Day:

Proverbs 14:8-10, 12: 'The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: But the folly of fools is deceit. Fools make a mock at sin: But among the righteous there is favour. The heart knoweth his own bitterness; And a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death.

Jeremiah 17:9: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Have you heard the saying, "Experience is life's most expensive lesson"?....what if we can cut the price in half, or possibly make it free?

Scripture(s) of the Day:

Proverbs 12:26-27(B): The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray...But the diligent make use of everything they find. (NLT)

John 5:14: But afterward Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, Now you are well; so stop sinning, or something even worse may happen to you. (NLT)