WISDOM DIARY ON RIGHTEOUSNESS {Wisdom}

 

Wisdom Diary on Righteousness

Introduction

Wisdom Diary is a collection of powerful, faith-building, success-motivating and life-transforming quotes from Dr. David O. Oyedepo.

These quotes, as you meditate on them (along with the corresponding scriptures), will fortify and encourage you to rise up to a more meaningful and productive Christian life.

They are words you will never forget! They are words you go to bed with, and you wake up full of electric ideas that will make a shining star out of you.

They are words brewed in a hot pot of a heart full of insights and revelations, with spiritual understanding that has been proved in 27 years of adventurous Christian living, and 15 years of committed ministry.

They are not words of an academic mind, No! They are words of a mind that is breathing with the intensity of the life of God, contacted through a diligent study life.

They are words coming from a wealth of knowledge, gathered through excited fellowship with anointed books, and ceaseless search in the Bible—"God’s wisdom bank", as Dr. Oyedepo calls it.

As you treasure these words of wisdom, your life will surely blossom into an enviable treasure on the earth.

Don’t only read these words, think them, talk them and do them. They will mould your destiny.

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Righteousness controls our tomorrow.

— Proverbs 4:18

Righteousness is not a curse, it's a blessing.

— Psalm 112:1-10

The righteous is protected by heaven.

— Psalm 34:19-20

The beauty of salvation is in righteousness.

— Psalm 1:1-3

Sin was the beginning of shame for man; righteousness is the only way to have honour restored.

— Genesis 3:1-10

Everyman's beauty is in his holiness.

— Proverbs 12:26

While the wages of sin is death, the wages of righteousness is life more abundant.

— Psalm 92:12-15

Righteousness satisfies!

— Matthew 6:33

There's a lot of pleasure in righteousness than there is in sin.

— 1 Chronicles 29:17

Righteousness holds a guarantee for your prosperity.

— Psalm 92:12

Righteousness causes men to shine as stars.

— Daniel 12:3

Honour is guaranteed when practical righteousness is in place.

— Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness announces promotions for the righteous.

— Psalm 45:4

Every persecution against your righteousness is announcing your promotion.

— Job 17:9

When a Christian goes back to sin, he's no longer a son, he becomes a dog!

— Revelation 22:15

When you're saved from sin, your covenant colour emerges.

— Colossians 2:13-14

It's consecration time; you're either set or you're beset!

— Hosea 10:12-13

The lack of desire for righteousness, is the reason for the captivity of sin.

— Proverbs 13:13

Nothing glorifies, nothing beautifies like holiness!

— Psalm 45:7-8

Honour will locate you if you make your choice for righteousness and holiness.

— Genesis 39, 41

It takes a pregnancy of purity to give birth to power.

— Psalm 110:3

Until you're thirsty for purity, you never taste power.

— Romans 1:4

Whatever throne unrighteousness places you on, it is so that it can bring you to utter shame at the end.

— Psalm 73:1-20

If you don't mind consecration, you will be desecrated.

— 1 Corinthians 3:17

Until sin goes, Christ's death is of no benefit to you.

— Romans 6:6

To experience honour, avoid things that make for impurity.

— 1 Samuel 2:30

Holiness is God's answer for sin.

— Leviticus 20:7

God's presence is not guaranteed without consecration.

— Exodus 19:9-20

Consecration guarantees cheap communication with the throne of God.

— James 5:16

You have no access to revelations when you live in sin.

— Mark 4:11

When you resist sin unto blood, you have disarmed it!

— Hebrews 12:3-4

Nothing is a susbstitute for holiness.

— Leviticus 20:7

Giving in purity is what results into plenty.

— Malachi 3:4

Before the enemy destroys you, destroy him first!

— Ephesians 4:27

It's better to miss anything that will make you miss God.

— Philippians 3:7-8

Nothing makes you look like God more than holiness.

— 1 Peter 1:16

If you take constant "Word baths", you will stay clean.

— John 15:3

If you mock what God is saying, you'll become a mockery tomorrow.

— Proverbs 13:13

Purity gives birth to beauty.

— Psalm 45:7

No calling or gift is equal to holiness.

— Psalm 93:5

If you have any other god, you're a misfit in the kingdom.

— Jeremiah 2:11-13

When holiness takes its place, boldness before His throne is guaranteed.

— Hebrews 4:16

If you're not contented, you'll be contentious.

— 1 Timothy 6:6-8

Until God becomes your possession, the love of possessions will keep tormenting your life.

— Luke 12:15

Abundance answers to uprightness before the Lord.

— Job 1:1-3

Until you count all things as dung, you may become dung.

— Philippians 3:7-8

If your Christianity is still one-leg-in, one-leg-out, you don't have a future.

— Revelation 3:15-16

When you look away from God, you enter into darkness!

— Psalm 34:5

God wants every idol in your life burnt, otherwise you'll get burnt.

— Jeremiah 17:5-6

I count all things of no value, so I can retain my value with God.

— Philippians 3:7

If you won't let go your idols, leave God alone!

— Matthew 6:24

Idols make life dull!

— Isaiah 44:9-20

Righteousness is your sure foundation for a glorious Christian walk.

— Job 1:1-3

Any other thing you add to God makes Him leave you.

— Exodus 20:1-6

Idolatory brings affliction!

— Jeremiah 2:11-17

When you exercise yourself against any form of unrighteous-ness, heaven will declare your righteousness.

— Genesis 39:7-12; 41:37-46

The reason the Church has been sinking is because it has been sinning.

— Proverbs 14:34

In the race for righteousness, man is the determining factor; not the devil.

— James 1:14-15

When you're able to locate the value of righteousness, you will work your way out of sin.

— Jeremiah 33:8-9

Hell has broken loose, we must become violent!

— Matthew 11:12

Holiness is the fastest vehicle on earth to anywhere you desire to get to.

— Proverbs 14:34

Idolatory puts God off!

— Exodus 20:1-6

If you join the world in the pleasures of sin, you will also join them in the prize of failure, and in suffering regrets.

— Numbers 16:1-3,32

Every price you pay to let go of sin, will lead you to a prize in the Kingdom.

— Genesis 41:38-46

No matter your gifts, with sin, there's no place for you in heaven.

— Revelation 21:27

If you see holiness as an impossibility, captivity is inevitable!

— Romans 6:14

Righteousness is a preserver of destiny.

— Proverbs 11:4

Prosperity is fast becoming our identity, so we must crave for purity!

— 1 Timothy 6:17-19

If you don't hold fast to your integrity, you'll never experience dignity.

— Psalm 25:21

The holiness you desire is a product of the spirit of holiness.

— Romans 1:4

Give up on sin, Satan will give up on you!

— James 4:7

The blood way is our access into the realms of holiness.

— Hebrews 9:3-7

Satan has vowed your destruction, you must vow his devastation!

— Proverbs 7:6-18

When you're in sin, you're in a relationship with the devil.

— 1 John 3:10

If you will dedicate your life to sanctification, you will always walk out on the devil at will.

— 1 John 3:3,8

With sin in your life, your spirit is not free; because sin is a sickness of the spirit.

— 2 Corinthians 7:1

You can stop the devil if it is your will to be clean.

— James 4:7

If God said, "Be ye holy...", it means you can be holy if you want to.

— 1 Peter 1:15-16

The pleasure of sin is a deception; give it up!

— Hebrews 3:13

Immorality erodes dignity!

— Proverbs 6:26

If holiness is not reflected in your character, your Christianity has no credence with God.

— Ephesians 1:4

If it is your will to be clean, the taste for sin will die now!

— Colossians 3:1-3

Immorality is the cheapest way to miss divine programme.

— 1 Corinthians 10:8

When you're in relationship with the devil, your destiny is not secure.

— Numbers 22:31-32

Everyman that toys with sin tears down his destiny unknowingly.

— Judges 16:20

Purity is your covenant kingdom identity; if it's not there, you don't belong.

— Matthew 5:8

With sin, you don't have value in the sight of God.

— Romans 3:23

Satan has vowed to kill you, you must vow to live.

— James 4:7

If you don't give up on sin, God will give up on you.

— Hebrews 10:26-27

Until the sin question is dealt with, everyman's future is in doubt.

— Isaiah 59:1-2

You never enjoy refreshing with sin.

— John 5:14

When purity begins to operate in you in its fullness, life begins to answer to you in fullness.

— 1Timothy 4:8

The anointing only breaks the yoke, but righteousness makes you to flourish.

— Psalm 92:12

Crave for purity, embrace it, maintain it, and you'll be healthy!

— Jeremiah 33:6-7

Unction is a gift of God, but it is devotion that gives birth to righteousness.

— Hebrews 12:28

Every Christian that behaves foolishly is showing how far he/she is from God.

— Proverbs 24:7

Until sin is successfully treated, man's relationship with God remains sour.

— Isaiah 59:2

Until you stay away from sin, you will not be in touch with God.

— Psalm 32:5-6

It is impossible to live the holy life while still in accord with unholy people.

— 2 Corinthians 6:14

Sin causes plagues; but when sin goes, plagues go.

— Psalm 119:67

Until God hears your voice of repentance, He won't hear your voice of afflictions.

— 2 Chronicles 7:14

Until you encounter purity, you can't manifest power.

— Psalm 110:3

If you want to live right, keep the right company! Relate with the right things!

— Proverbs 13:20

If you desire liberty, you can walk out on the devil.

— James 4:7

Every sin you have not repented of constitutes a blockage in your communication with God.

— Psalm 66:18

Every time your sin comes to remembrance, God's mercy is turned off!

— Hosea 7:1-2

It is holiness for wholeness!

— Hebrews 12:4

Before you're abandoned, abandon sin now!

— 1 Thessalonians 5:22-23

Sin is destructive, righteousness is constructive.

— Proverbs 14:34

When you enter the oath realm in your conflict with sin, you have ended the strife! The match is over!

— Hebrews 6:16

Until sin goes, signs don't flow.

— 2 Chronicles 15:8-9, 15

No matter how much you give, "he that covereth his sins shall not prosper."

— Proverbs 28:13

Hear this: Holiness is an adventure, a possible adventure!

— 1 Peter 1:15-16

Sin is not a friend, it's a destroyer any day!

— Romans 6:23

Purity is the booster of power!

— Psalm 110:3

Friends, immorality erodes intelligence, it mars wisdom!

— 1 Kings 11:1-3

Sin is sin, no matter who commits it.

— Ezekiel 18:20

Continuity in sin destroys destiny.

— Romans 6:1,15

When you continue in sin, your future is damned.

— 1 Timothy 5:6

Before sin finishes you, finish it now!

— Job 22:21-23

Great temptations accompany mighty manifestations.

— James 1:2-5

Sin is so subtle, but the Holy Ghost can cheaply arrest it.

— Isaiah 59:19

Sin is a spiritual heart disease!

— 1 Corinthians 3:17

Stop sin before it stops you! Kill it before it kills you!

— Ezekiel 18:20

Nothing works when sin is enthroned.

— 2 Chronicles 15:2-6

When sin stings and it's not treated, it results in death.

— James 1:14-15

When you get close to the holy God, you will see how much you need to enhance your holiness in God.

— Amos 3:3

Sin will never have God's approval.

— Habakkuk 1:13

The treatment for the sting of sin is repentance.

— Acts 3:19

Sin makes men ugly!

— Psalm 68:21

Sin is at the root of every disease; and until righteousness takes over, sickness continues!

— Matthew 9:6

When you refuse to be convicted, you become a convict!

— John 16:7-11

Before sin sinks you, sink it!

— Romans 8:13

Rebellion is a costly poison; don't take it!

— Numbers 16:1-2, 28-33

Sin is pleasurable, but unfortunately, it is destructive.

— Hebrews 11:25

It is your personal discipline that determines your great future.

— 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

There's no salvation in gold and silver; enough of running after it!

— Mark 8:36

Contentment is the answer to covetousness.

— 1 Timothy 6:6-8

Sin is a silent killer!

— Romans 6:23

Wherever sin reigns, shame reigns

— Genesis 3:10

The love of gold is a killer disease!

— 1 Timothy 6:10

Walk straight and your path will be straight.

— Proverbs 11:3

When God is out of your riches, it becomes risky.

— Deuteronomy 8:19

When you go after the god of gold, you become a fool!

— 1 Timothy 6:9-10

Every pitfall is by your allowance.

— Ephesians 4:27

Lovers of money will never have it!

— Proverbs 23:4-5

When you're not rich towards God, no matter what you have, you're a poor man!

— 1 Timothy 6:12-19

God prophesied your lifting; you don't have to be crooked to get it.

— 1 John 3:3

When your best friend is an ungodly man, friends, you are in the "best" trap!

— 2 Samuel 13:3-5, 32

Unfaithfulness is a trap of the enemy to make you a failure.

— Luke 16:11-12

Discontentment brings down your speed and makes you defenceless.

— Luke 12:15

You don't reign as a debtor, you reign as a lender.

— Deuteronomy 15:6

True liberty from sin is impossible without the operation of the Spirit of God.

— 2 Corinthians 3:17

When Gehazi ran after greed, he was baptised with leprosy.

— 2 Kings 5:20-27

Sin has no more dominion over you; so exercise your dominion over it.

— Romans 6:14

Sin has been destroyed; make your choice to be free from it.

— 1 John 3:8

In the conflict with sin, your choice is supreme.

— Daniel 1:8

Sin will never go on its own; if you don't rise, sin won't go.

— Colossians 3:5

Sin guarantees prayer-failure.

— Psalm 66:18

When you disconnect from sin, all the products of sin (in your life) die!

— Colossians 2:13-14

When you walk in the flesh, you don't really have a future.

— Romans 7:5

If you live your size per time, your size will know no limit.

— 1 Timothy 6:6-8

You are not tempted to lust, it is your lust that attracts the temptation.

— James 1:13-15

Sin is a form of leprosy; it seperates you from God.

— Isaiah 59:1-2

When confronted by spirits, we can only conquer by the Spirit.

— Ezekiel 36:27

Temptation is not equal to sin; submitting to it is what makes you a sinner.

— 1 Corinthians 10:13

A fifty-fifty Christian journey always ends in a crash.

— Revelation 3:16

If you embrace sin, you will sink; and before you sink, you will stink!

— 2 Samuel 12:9-11

Every Christian that goes back to his old nature is a dog.

— 2 Peter 2:20-22

The association you keep will either raise or erase you!

— Proverbs 13:20

When your choice is made, Satan is finished.

— Luke 15:18

Sin is so weak that your mind can handle it.

— Genesis 39:8-9

Evil companionship will keep you in sin.

— 1 Corinthians 15:33

Nothing paralyses mentality as immorality!

— Judges 16:4-21

If you choose life, death cannot withstand you.

— Deuteronomy 30:19

It's time to slay sin before it slays you!

— Proverbs 11:3

The world is waiting to hear you; don't let the devil destroy you!

— Romans 8:19

If Satan the man of sin is under your feet, sin cannot be your problem!

— Romans 16:20

God is not a tempter; He equips us to deal with temptations.

— 1 Corinthians 10:13

Clean up! Time is running out!

— Isaiah 52:11