PRACTICAL ADVICE

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Key Verse

  • As for the things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:9 NASB
The Bible give us practical advice for living. See Examples Below:

Insights

1. Being Debt Free

2. Taking only Firm Steps

1. Avoid travelling late

  • But the man would not stay that night; so he rose up and departed and came opposite to Jebus, which is Jerusalem. Judges 19:10 AMPC (Read full account: Judges 19 BSB)

2. Avoid travelling alone

  • Now Dinah daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out [unattended] to see the girls of the place. Genesis 34:1 AMPC (Read full account: Genesis 34 BSB)

3. Explain things in order

  • But Peter explained it to them in order from the beginning, saying Acts 11:4 NKJV
Other versions

  • But Peter began [at the beginning] and explained [the events] to them step by step, saying Acts 11:4 AMP
See also

  • God [who is the source of their prophesying] is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order. 1 Corinthians 14:33 AMP

4. Observe things

  • And Jesus went into Jerusalem and entered the temple [enclosure]; and when He had looked around, surveying and observing everything, as it was already late, He went out to Bethany together with the Twelve [apostles]. Mark 11:11 AMPC
  • Go to the ant, you lazy one, Observe its ways and be wise Proverbs 6:6 NASB

5. Make plans

6. Be engaged in necessary employments

  • And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary1 uses2, that they be not unfruitful. Titus 3:14 KJV

Other versions 

  • Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unproductive. Titus 3:14 NASB

7. Do and check

  • So the Israelites did all the work according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses. And Moses [carefully] inspected all the work, and behold, they had done it; just as the Lord had commanded, so had they done it. So Moses blessed them. Exodus 39:42-43 AMP

8. Group things

  • Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. Matthew 10:2-4 NKJV
  • After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. Luke 10:1 NKJV
Other versions

  • Now after this the Lord appointed seventy-two others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come. Luke 10:1 NASB

Footnotes

  1. 316 ἀναγκαῖος [A)NAGKAI=OS] {anankaîos} \an-ang-kah'-yos\
    from 318; necessary; by implication, close (of kin):--near, necessary, necessity, needful.
  2. 5532 χρεία [XREI/A] {chreía} \khri'-ah\ from the base of 5530 or 5534; employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand, requirement or destitution:--business, lack, necessary(-ity), need(-ful), use, want.