
IBLP
Overview
The Institute in Basic Life Principles is dedicated to giving clear training on how to find success by following God’s principles found in Scripture.
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Pray for All People Many years ago I heard a story about an American soldier in World War II who…
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Day 244 – Be a House of Prayer
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Make Your Prayers Effective For more than sixty years Darlene had suffered from intense, chronic pain. Doctors were baffled, and…
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Day 243 – Be a House of Prayer
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Enjoy the Essence of Prayer He was sitting in his tent door when he spotted three men walking by. Despite…
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Day 242 – Be a House of Prayer
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Strengthen Your Inner Man Inside each believer there is an “old man” who feeds off of the lusts of the…
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Day 241 – Be a House of Prayer
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Cleanse Your Temple! It took everyone by surprise! Tables being overturned, coins scattered across the ground, animals being driven out…
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Day 240 – Be a House of Prayer
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Be a House of Prayer It had the splendor and magnificence of a world wonder! Thirty thousand strong and skilled…
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Day 239 – Be a House of Prayer
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Use the Keys to a Person’s Heart I scanned an area on the south side of Chicago until I saw…
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Day 238 – Be a Servant
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Unlock the Door to Greatness! It caught my attention when one of the most successful businessmen I knew told me…
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Day 237 – Be a Servant
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Embrace the Goal of Greatness When a political leader told me that his ambition was to hold a high national…
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Day 236 – Be a Servant
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Be a Servant of All When he was born without legs, his parents threw him over a cliff to be…
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Day 235 – Be a Servant
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Conquer Temptation With a Servant’s Heart Why was Joseph able to overcome the very same temptation that defeated Solomon, the…
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Day 234 – Be a Servant
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Pass Three Servant Tests! The president of a very successful company would follow a curious procedure when he was considering…
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Day 233 – Be a Servant
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Achieve Greatness by Serving The heart of every individual possesses a desire to do something significant. God created this basic…
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Day 232 – Be a Servant
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Transfer Authority in Marriage Recently, a wife called me with a desperate plea for help. Her husband was addicted to…
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Day 231 – Honor Marriage
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Strengthen the Spirit of Your Marriage I wanted to laugh, but it was not a laughing matter. In fact, it…
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Day 230 – Honor Marriage
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Understand the Exception Clause The woman looked down and began to weep tears of pain and regret. She had just…
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Day 229 – Honor Marriage
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Understand Marriage Analogies Throughout Scripture, God uses analogies to illustrate spiritual truths. Marriage is one of the central analogies used…
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Day 228 – Honor Marriage
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Reaffirm Your Marriage Commitment The two oldest sons had become bitter young men. They were bitter at their father for…
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Day 227 – Honor Marriage
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Keep Marriage Vows For many years I tried to solve a mystery: Why did a Godly man fail to achieve…
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Day 226 – Honor Marriage
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Identify Marriage Prerequisites They were very much in love and confident that God was leading them into marriage. There didn’t…
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Day 225 – Honor Marriage
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Discern Types of Offenders Toward the beginning of Paul’s ministry, he had to escape from would-be killers by being let…
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Day 224 – Forgive Offenders
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List Benefits From Offenses What do you do if you forgive an offender and verbally ask God to bless him…
Day 223 – Forgive Offenders
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Forgive Offenders Fully! A bitter wife began explaining to me all of the hurts that she had received from her…
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Day 222 – Forgive Offenders
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Recognize Your Tormentors Things were not going well for a couple who had been married for ten years. Their children…
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Day 221 – Forgive Offenders
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Find the Key to Forgiveness I read the parable of the unjust servant in Matthew 18 many times before I…
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Day 220 – Forgive Offenders
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Consider the Cost of Not Forgiving A woman adamantly declared, “I will never forgive my father!” She had grown up…
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Day 219 – Forgive Offenders
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Forgive Your Offenders Jim could not understand why his sons were reacting to him. Although he was sometimes hard on…
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Day 218 – Forgive Offenders
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Consider the Cost of Coveting He was the son of royalty and rightful heir to the throne. One day, he…
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Day 217 – Beware of Covetousness
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Be Rich Toward God For 19-year-old Cristina Rodriguez, it began when she learned about the exciting and faith-stretching possibilities of…
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Day 216 – Beware of Covetousness
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Reject Retirement Myths Many people can’t wait to retire. With excitement, they plan, save, and look forward to the day…
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Day 215 – Beware of Covetousness
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Avoid Inheritance Traps Friends and neighbors marveled at the love and unity of a certain family, but then everything changed…
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Day 214 – Beware of Covetousness
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Recognize Temporal Things An ambitious couple found their “dream house.” It was a spacious home on a wooded hillside overlooking…
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Day 213 – Beware of Covetousness
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Learn To Be Content I recently received a very sad report from a friend whom I had not heard from…
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Day 212 – Beware of Covetousness
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Beware of Covetousness In the Book of I Kings, the account is given of a man named Naboth, who owned…
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Day 211 – Beware of Covetousness
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Seek Restoration The danger of exercising church discipline on a fellow believer is the tendency to close our spirits to…
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Day 210 – Go to Offenders
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Know When to Get Witnesses Both men were prominent individuals in their community and members of the same church, but…
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Day 209 – Go to Offenders
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Have a “Courageous Conversation” If we are to be successful in resolving a conflict with an offender, it is vital…
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Day 208 – Go to Offenders
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Appeal to the Conscience It had been about a year since David had committed adultery with Bathsheba and arranged for…
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Day 207 – Go to Offenders
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Tell an Offender His Fault On Sunday the man looked like a saint, but during the week he acted like…
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Day 206 – Go to Offenders
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Go First to Offenders There was no apparent reason why this marriage should have failed. Both sets of parents had…
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Day 205 – Go to Offenders
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Go to Offenders The feud began between a brother and sister but was carried on by their children and had…
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Day 204 – Go to Offenders
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Honor Little Ones One day a family asked a special guest to join them for dinner. As they sat around…
Day 203 – Despise Not Little Ones
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Do Not Offend Little Ones Years ago, a father was strongly advised to keep liquor away from his children because…
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Day 202 – Despise Not Little Ones
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Feed Little Ones After I had received the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Savior as a child, I experienced…
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Day 201 – Despise Not Little Ones
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Bring Little Ones to Jesus With great anticipation, the young couple looked forward to the birth of their first child…
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Day 200 – Despise Not Little Ones
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See the Littlest, Least, and Last! Our natural tendency is to overlook or be bothered by little things because we…
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Day 199 – Despise Not Little Ones
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Become as Little Children Jesus clearly states, “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little…
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Day 198 – Despise Not Little Ones
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Despise Not Little Ones Dwight was a little-known shoe salesman in Chicago. He lacked the education required to become a…
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Day 197 – Despise Not Little Ones
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Glory in the Words of Jesus Eight days after Jesus instructed His disciples to deny themselves, take up their crosses,…
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Day 196 – Deny Yourself
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Do Not Be Ashamed of Jesus A hotel owner learned that a friend was near death, so he visited him…
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