Provacation is not a good thing! Here are just a few verses from the three pages of provocation that came up when I did a search for this word....You might want to think upon these verses and I will be back with you soon.
Don't forget to find someone to bless.
Ezra 5:12 NAS
'But because our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
Psalm 106:29 NAS
Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And the plague broke out among them.
Acts 17:16 NAS
[Paul at Athens] Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.
Acts 21:30 NAS
Then all the city was provoked, and the people rushed together, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NAS
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous ; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly ; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
Hebrews 3:8 NAS
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME, AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,
Hebrews 3:15 NAS
while it is said, "TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME."
Hebrews 3:16 NAS
For who provoked Him when they had heard ? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses ?
