Going deeper with Jesus
Do I have the patience of Job? Not even close. It’s a trying task to wait for God. It takes, well, patience. How do you get it? Why does God take so long is a better question from a human.He takes His own sweet time. Sometimes it seems like it’s just to make us more […]
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Quench not the Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 5:19 How do we do that? Refusing His work in your life. Refusing to listen. Refusing to obey. Going your own way when you know it’s not pleasing to God. Refusing the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Refusing to honor Him when He is using another person. Not letting
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We know the Ten Commandments in Exodus Chapter 20:3-17Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I
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The natural world is our battlefield. We need to be on at all times. Listening faithfully, praying without ceasing, watching for our next move as directed by the Holy Spirit. Sometimes the battle is more like a sword fight with the unsaved or even the saved at times. Being sensitive to how the Holy Spirit
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.Ephesians 6:16 Faith. Faith is difficult to understand. We can’t hope up faith. We can’t produce our own faith. God gives us faith. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans
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If you have a struggle, likely you will find a character in the Bible who has had the same kind or a very similar struggle. If we think about the Bible, the Word of God, each word is put in there intentionally. Not one word is by accident, not one story, not one parable. They
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Continued…Jonah had been found out, that he was the reason their ship was being tossed about. 9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land. Jonah, in the midst of the trouble he had caused gave a
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1 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me. Nineveh was a very wicked city. Jonah was not interested in that job. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from
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For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:23 We pray Thy Kingdom
We do not want to feel overly important or even to focus on our importance as that is pride. Finding the right balance of obedience and purpose is what we need. We do matter, otherwise we wouldn’t be here. If our life was done, if our days were over, God would take us home. So,
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