Walter Spires - Minutes For Men

Key bible Verse:  "for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God."   James 1: 20 

Key Bible Verse:  "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before stumbling."  Proverbs 16: 18

Key Bible Verse:  "Now David’s heart troubled him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”  2 Samuel 24: 10

Key Bible Verse:  "Are not...the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?  Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So (Naaman) turned and went away in a rage."  (He was still a leper.)  2 Kings 5: 12

Key Bible Verse:  "When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You."  Psalm 56: 3

Key Bible Verse:   (God's punishment on Israel because they listened to the ten spies instead of Joshua and Caleb) "But as for you, your corpses will fall ...for forty years in the wilderness...for your unfaithfulness...according to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition."  Numbers 14: 32-34 (excerpted)

Key Bible Verse:  "Then Moses was afraid...Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian."  Exodus 2: 14-15

Key Bible Verse:  "For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death." 2 Corinthians 7: 10

Key Bible Verse:  "I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth."  Psalm 2121: 1-2

Key Bible Verse:  "Answer me quickly, O LORD, my spirit fails; Do not hide Your face from me, Or I will become like those who go down to the pit."  Psalm 143: 7

Key Bible Verse: (Jesus speaking)  "but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."  Matthew 5: 28

Key Bible Verse:  "These things will be done to you because you have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols."  Ezekiel 23: 30

Key Bible Verse:  "As for your adulteries and your lustful neighings, The lewdness of your prostitution On the hills in the field, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you..."  Jeremiah 13: 27

Key Bible Verse:  (Jesus Speaking) "For nothing is hidden that will not become evident, nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light."  Luke 8: 17

Key Bible Verse:  "When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long."  Psalm 32: 3

Key Bible Verse:  "But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out."  Numbers 32:23

Key Bible Verse(s):  "And (Jesus) said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”  Luke 12: 15 

Key Bible Verse(s):  "But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?" Luke 12: 20

Key Bible Verse(s):  "But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property."  Matthew 19: 22

You may not have ever been incarcerated, but most men have been in what I refer to as "prisons without bars".