34th Week of the Year

M E E K

From your Pocket to your Heart!

Defined as ... Yielding my responses without anger and bitterness to those against me.

“The best and ripest of fruit are always easy and gentle to pick.”
~  Author Unknown  ~

“Meekness is not weakness. It is power under control.”
~  John MacArthur  ~

“Meekness is calm confidence, settle assurance, and reset of the soul.”
~  Matthew Henry  ~

MEEKNESS EXEMPLIFIED

1. Gideon
(Judges 8:1-3)
2. Abraham with Lot
(Genesis 13)
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MEEKNESS
SCRIPTURALLY TAUGHT

“To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.”
Titus 3:2

“Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:1-2

“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
Ephesians 4:31-32

“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.”
2 Timothy 2:24-25

“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
Matthew 5:5