
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 Disciples! A young, energetic, prospective missionary received some very encouraging news. One of the most successful missionaries he…
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Day 144 – Pray for Laborers
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Recruit Laborers God’s Way! I still recall a church business meeting I attended years ago. The need was presented for…
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Day 143 – Pray for Laborers
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Learn the Key to Compassion! Hundreds of youth and adults watched intently as I gave a “chalk talk” in a…
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Day 142 – Pray for Laborers
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See the Harvest! Money was running out for Jack, a struggling businessman. In fact, his financial problems had become so…
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Day 141 – Pray for Laborers
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Warn Other Shepherds! Every father is the “shepherd” of his family. He has the responsibility to guard his own flock…
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Day 140 – Beware of False Prophets
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Reject the Voices of Strangers! A 21-year-old girl asked her parents if she could visit another girl in a distant…
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Day 139 – Beware of False Prophets
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Guard God’s Heritage! Your sons and daughters do not really “belong” to you. “Lo, children are a heritage of the…
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Day 138 – Beware of False Prophets
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Test All Prognosticators! Many people have a persistent passion to know what the future holds. They are drawn like magnets…
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Day 137 – Beware of False Prophets
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Embrace the Basic Doctrines! The agenda of false prophets is to attack the basic teachings of Scripture. Therefore, our best…
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Day 136 – Beware of False Prophets
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Be a Fruit Inspector! In this command, we are told that we can recognize false prophets by their fruits, but…
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Day 135 – Beware of False Prophets
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Recognize the Nature of Wolves! A wolf is a strong, aggressive, and rapacious beast of the wilderness. It continually searches…
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Day 134 – Beware of False Prophets
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Strive to Enter! After writing the previous six messages, I sensed that there was an important key to understanding this…
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Day 133 – Choose the Narrow Way
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Learn to “Stand Alone”! In order to choose the narrow way that has only a few people on it and…
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Day 132 – Choose the Narrow Way
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Focus on Your Goal! The crowds in the stands were cheering wildly as their teams fought for the winning points….
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Day 131 – Choose the Narrow Way
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Reject the Broad Road! God knows that if we learn the details of evil, then we will be enticed to…
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Day 130 – Choose the Narrow Way
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Expect a Narrowing Path! Let’s take a closer look at Proverbs 4:18: “But the path of the just is as…
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Day 129 – Choose the Narrow Way
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Walk in the Light! Scripture gives a clear distinction between the path of the righteous and the path of the…
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Day 128 – Choose the Narrow Way
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Find the Way of Life! If you had the opportunity to choose anything you wanted, what would you choose? If…
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Day 127 – Choose the Narrow Way
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Earn Trust by Telling the Truth! Truth is a key foundation of a civilization. It is the basis of all…
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Day 126 – Do Unto Others
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Forgive To Be Forgiven! A company president worked diligently to build up his business into a large and successful corporation….
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Day 125 – Do Unto Others
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Give to Receive From God! Doing to others what we would want them to do to us has a very…
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Day 124 – Do Unto Others
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Consider the Connection! The command to do to others what we want them to do to us begins with the…
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Day 123 – Do Unto Others
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Receive Honor by Giving Honor! Honor is one of the greatest gifts that a father could receive from his family….
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Day 122 – Do Unto Others
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Treat Others Like Royalty! This command is very clear and practical. If we want others to treat us like royalty,…
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Day 121 – Do Unto Others
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What You Desire, Do for Other! A distraught father called and asked me what he could do to help his…
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Day 120 – Do Unto Others
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Knock With Persistence! When Jesus taught His disciples how to pray, He told them a story about someone who had…
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Day 119 – Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Knock With the Right Name! Why is a good name rather to be chosen than great riches? (See Proverbs 22:1.)…
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Day 118 – Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Seek the Best First! A philosopher once observed that there are two great tragedies in life. The first tragedy is…
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Day 117 – Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Seek and Find! It would be hard to estimate the number of Christians who pray for a needed item, and…
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Day 116 – Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Ask With Confidence! God will always act in accordance with His Word. What an awesome opportunity this affords us to…
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Day 115 – Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Ask With Fervency! Why is it that sometimes we pray and seek for good things, but nothing seems to happen?…
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Day 114 – Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Ask for Good Things! One day, a teenage boy informed me that he did not believe in prayer. I asked…
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Day 113 – Ask, Seek, and Knock
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Treasure God’s Jewels! Sometimes a song will have such meaning to me that it brings tears to my eyes. One…
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Day 112 – Do Not Cast Pearls
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Raise Up Holy Generations! The stillness of the morning was broken by the ringing of the telephone. The father answered…
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Day 111 – Do Not Cast Pearls
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Learn to Answer “Pearl Haters”! On various occasions during His earthly ministry, the Lord Jesus was confronted with many questions…
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Day 110 – Do Not Cast Pearls
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Discern “Pearl Tramplers”! If we cast our pearls before swine, the pearls will be trampled underfoot, and then the swine…
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Day 109 – Do Not Cast Pearls
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Recognize Dangerous “Dogs”! We typically view dogs as friendly family pets and refer to them as “man’s best friend.” However,…
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Day 108 – Do Not Cast Pearls
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Separate Holy From Unholy! Why is it so important that holy things be separated from unholy things? Because God is…
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Day 107 – Do Not Cast Pearls
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Identify Holy Things! We will miss some of the most important opportunities in life if we fail to identify holy…
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Day 106 – Do Not Cast Pearls
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Remove the Splinter! The purpose of “removing a beam” from our own eye is to “see clearly to cast out…
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Day 105 – Judge Not
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Begin a Reformation! The wife glared at her husband as I sat down at the table with them. She started…
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Day 104 – Judge Not
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See Through Hurting Eyes! A newly married woman named Sara was shown to the desk that she would use in…
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Day 103 – Judge Not
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Conquer the Spirit of Judging! Not long ago, I was meeting with a 19-year-old girl who had recently returned to…
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Day 102 – Judge Not
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Turn Judging Into a Mirror! I enjoy telling the story of a day when, as a young boy, I walked…
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Day 101 – Judge Not
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Be a Surgeon, Not a Judge! In this command, we are instructed not to judge but rather to do surgery…
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Day 100 – Judge Not
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Judge Not! God sets up judges to rule over civil matters and puts leaders in the church to judge spiritual…
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Day 99 – Judge Not
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Expect Powerful Results! The “unthinkable” happened only one time in more than forty years of presenting Basic Seminars! More than…
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Day 98 – Seek God’s Kingdom
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Seek “Kingdom Things”! For many years when I read Colossians 3, I wondered what exactly it referred to as “those…
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Day 97 – Seek God’s Kingdom
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Do a Kingdom Inspection! Every kingdom has a territorial jurisdiction. In Christ’s future kingdom, He will exercise His authority over…
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Day 96 – Seek God’s Kingdom
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Learn “Kingdom Law”! Every civilized nation has a system of law. Laws are necessary to establish and maintain civil order….
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