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Childrens Meditations

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. …

Mark 16:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. …

Matthew 5:14-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Daniel 3:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. …

Genesis 37:1-50:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. …

Genesis 24:1-67 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh, that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell, but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” …

Genesis 6:1-9:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. …

Luke 1:26-2:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. …

Aslan International Ministry – Children Returning Home

Aslan International Ministry –

Children Returning Home

Jeremiah 31:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
There is hope for your future, declares the Lord, and your children shall come back to their own country.

Luke 15:17-24 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ …

Isaiah 61:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified. They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers; …

Jeremiah 31:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man.”

Isaiah 49:17-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you. Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, declares the Lord, you shall put them all on as an ornament; you shall bind them on as a bride does.

Isaiah 20:1-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote
In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it— at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Then the Lord said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt. Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast. …

Aslan International Ministry – Child Discipline

Aslan International Ministry –

Child Discipline

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 23:13-14 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Proverbs 13:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 19:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? …

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Hebrews 12:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 6 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …

Proverbs 20:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 6:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Proverbs 13:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 30:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

Aslan International Ministry – Chicken

Aslan International Ministry –

Chicken

Matthew 23:37 ESV / 23 helpful votes
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!

Acts 10:1-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes
At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter.

1 Corinthians 10:25-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.” If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.

Matthew 26:34 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

Psalm 94:1-23 ESV / 6 helpful votes
O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. …

John 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

Aslan International Ministry – Chewing Tobacco

Aslan International Ministry –

Chewing Tobacco

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 16 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 14:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Ezekiel 14:6 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Romans 13:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Mark 16:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

James 2:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, …

Ecclesiastes 1:1-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. …

Leviticus 11:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.

Aslan International Ministry – Clapping

Aslan International Ministry –

Clapping

Psalm 47:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes
“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Lamentations 2:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes
All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Nahum 3:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?

Psalm 98:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together

Job 34:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

Job 27:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.

Aslan International Ministry – Cigarette Smoking

Aslan International Ministry –

Cigarette Smoking

2 Samuel 22:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

Psalm 18:8 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 8:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

James 4:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

John 2:1-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” …

Proverbs 11:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes
A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.

1 Corinthians 8:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

Luke 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

Aslan International Ministry – Cigarette Smoking