{"id":3358,"date":"2026-04-27T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:57:53","slug":"feer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/feer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Passage &#8211; Psa 25:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The secret counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he reveals his covenant to them. (CSB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, And He will show them His covenant. (NKJV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. (NIV)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The LORD is a friend to those who fear him. He teaches them his covenant. (NLT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God&#8217;s best is only shared with those who fear Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we desire God&#8217;s best counsel we probably need to take more seriously His directives with a commitment to obey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Bevere asked Jim Bakker in prison, \u201cJim, when did you fall out of love with Jesus?&#8221;<br>He looked at John and said, \u201cJohn, I loved Jesus, but I didn\u2019t fear God.\u201d<br>Jim said, &#8220;John, this prison is not God\u2019s judgement on my life but his mercy. I believe if I had continued on the path I was on, I would have ended up in hell!&#8221;<br>There are millions of Christians in America who love Jesus but don\u2019t fear Him, and it is the fear of the Lord that perfects holiness in our life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are we willing to share God&#8217;s best with those who have need of His truth?<br>Or, are we more interested in being shallow friends?<br>Thomas Sowell (very wise and respected author) said, &#8220;When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passage &#8211; Psa 25:14 God&#8217;s best is only shared with those who fear Him. If we desire God&#8217;s best counsel we probably need to take more seriously His directives with a commitment to obey. John Bevere asked Jim Bakker in prison, \u201cJim, when did you fall out of love with Jesus?&#8221;He looked at John and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truth-talk.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}