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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Lose Your Life to Save It Outside the city gate, four men looked at each other in despair. They were…
2015
Day 194 – Deny Yourself
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Follow With Your Cross of Glory! The little band of students from Oxford University returned to their campus after distributing…
2015
Day 193 – Deny Yourself
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Take Up Your Cross Daily In our day, the cross is very popular, even among non-Christians. It is worn on…
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Day 192 – Deny Yourself
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Practice Denial of Self It came as a total surprise to the young wife. Months before their first wedding anniversary,…
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Day 191 – Deny Yourself
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Choose to Come After Jesus “Am I willing to die for my faith in Christ?” John asked himself. For years…
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Day 190 – Deny Yourself
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Trace Leaven to High Places One of the great mysteries in the history of Israel is their repeated rejection of…
Day 189 – Beware of Leaven
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Know When to Leave Leaven! A father named Tim had been a member of a particular church since he was…
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Day 188 – Beware of Leaven
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Purge Yourself of Leaven With great show, the scribes and Pharisees proclaimed their love for God outwardly, but inwardly their…
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Day 187 – Beware of Leaven
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Solve the Mystery of Anger The phone rang. When I answered it, I listened to the desperate plea of a…
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Day 186 – Beware of Leaven
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Detect the Leaven of Pharisees One of the interesting characteristics of leaven is that its fermentation process produces pockets of…
Day 185 – Beware of Leaven
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Learn the Lesson of Leaven In 1636, John Harvard founded a school for the purpose of educating the youths of…
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Day 184 – Beware of Leaven
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Know the Nature of Leaven When God puts a “beware sign” on something, we should take the time to find…
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Day 183 – Beware of Leaven
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Make Wise Appeals A mother glanced out her front window and saw some people walking toward the front door. She…
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Day 182 – Honor Your Parents
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Know the Basis of Honor King David’s call for Mephibosheth to come before him struck fear in Mephibosheth’s heart, because…
2015
Day 181 – Honor Your Parents
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Honor God by Honoring Parents When Jeremiah brought the elders of a large family into the Temple and offered them…
2015
Day 180 – Honor Your Parents
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Honor Your Father and Mother Since honoring our parents is to take a high priority in our lives, it is…
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Day 179 – Honor Your Parents
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Trace Disrespect to Dishonor A frustrated father appealed to me for counsel, saying, “What am I doing wrong? I have…
2015
Day 178 – Honor Your Parents
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Honor Your Parents’ Position One day an enthusiastic young man named Chris came to discuss with me the possibility of…
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Day 177 – Honor Your Parents
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Get the Blessing, Not the Curse To all who saw her she was just a poor, hardworking woman. Her shoulders…
2015
Day 176 – Honor Your Parents
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Find Ultimate Rest In this command, there are actually two levels of rest that are promised. The first level is…
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Day 175 – Take My Yoke
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Develop Unity by Being Yoked As believers we are all members of the same Body: “For as the body is…
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Day 174 – Take My Yoke
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Get in Step With Life It was a discouraging routine. I would wake up each morning knowing I should immediately…
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Day 173 – Take My Yoke
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Learn the Nature of Jesus Of all the character qualities that Jesus could have chosen to describe Himself, why did…
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Day 172 – Take My Yoke
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Analyze Your Labor Load At a conference for youth leaders, I learned about an event that had attracted thousands of…
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Day 171 – Take My Yoke
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Put On Christ’s Yoke A yoke is a wooden beam that is placed over the necks of two oxen or…
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Day 170 – Take My Yoke
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Find the Secret to Knowing God As we approached the ornate iron gates, I looked down the curved driveway lined…
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Day 169 – Take My Yoke
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Confirm God’s Voice A young man met an attractive girl and desired to marry her. He began attending her church…
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Day 168 – Hear God’s Voice!
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Know How God Speaks A dentist in Philadelphia practiced out of a small building that had only a few parking…
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Day 167 – Hear God’s Voice!
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Be Attentive to Your Conscience One morning as I was getting ready for school, I thought, “It sure would be…
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Day 166 – Hear God’s Voice!
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Listen to the Reproofs of Life A multimillionaire was very proud of his wealth and believed that it was due…
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Day 165 – Hear God’s Voice!
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Obey First; Understand Later A young boy walked from his mission home down to a jungle trail. His mother, waving…
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Day 164 – Hear God’s Voice!
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Bow Down Your Ear Her story was familiar. A 17-year-old girl declared that she could not believe in God. I…
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Day 163 – Hear God’s Voice!
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Hear God’s Voice The story is told about three military men walking across the huge flight deck of an aircraft…
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Day 162 – Hear God’s Voice!
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Conquer the Fear of Loneliness I was stunned when a friend informed me that his 60-year-old mother was packing her…
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Day 161 – Fear God, Not Man
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Overcome the Fear of Evil As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we can confidently refute the fear of evil…
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Day 160 – Fear God, Not Man
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Transform Fear of Failure Fear of failure threatens to control many fathers. This often happens when a father is more…
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Day 159 – Fear God, Not Man
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Subdue Fear of Poverty Having sufficient food, clothing, and shelter is necessary for our existence. Therefore, it is understandable that…
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Day 158 – Fear God, Not Man
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Cast Out Fear of Rejection The context of this command warns us that there will be those who reject us…
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Day 157 – Fear God, Not Man
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Vanquish Fear of Death I enjoy telling the story of a man whose doctor informed him he had only a…
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Day 156 – Fear God, Not Man
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Conquer Fear With Fear To this day I am impressed by an experiment I once saw. A mean-looking cat underwent…
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Day 155 – Fear God, Not Man
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Outsmart the Wolves! Jesus did not send us out among the wolves to be eaten up by them but to…
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Day 154 – Be Wise as Serpents
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Never Doubt in Darkness! I have asked hundreds of young people a very important question. Amazingly, everyone has given me…
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Day 153 – Be Wise as Serpents
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Be Harmless as Doves! In Scripture, the dove symbolizes three primary characteristics: peace (as a messenger of peace after the…
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Day 152 – Be Wise as Serpents
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Learn the Wisdom of Serpents! In many ancient cultures, the snake was a symbol of wisdom. Snakes have keen perception…
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Day 151 – Be Wise as Serpents
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Be Wise Among Wolves! A political party was searching for just the right candidate to fill a critical position. After…
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Day 150 – Be Wise as Serpents
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Don’t Gaze at the Wolves! One day as I was looking at a famous picture, a friend pointed out an…
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Day 149 – Be Wise as Serpents
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Glory in Weaknesses! I was intrigued by an advertisement I saw when I was a young boy. It appealed to…
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Day 148 – Be Wise as Serpents
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Labor for the Lord of the Harvest! When I was 29 years old, I decided that it was time for…
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Day 147 – Pray for Laborers
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Develop a Sense of Urgency! Some of the most impacting verses I memorized as a teenager were Ezekiel 3:18–19: “When…
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Day 146 – Pray for Laborers
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Perfect Your Harvesting Skills! When Hudson Taylor realized that God was calling him to be a missionary to the interior…
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