Going deeper with Jesus
Lord, how can we ever be perfect?Seems an impossible task… Apart from Jesus, thinking about the perfect person:Well, they’d be happyAnd fitAnd well-dressedAlways say the right things, do the right thingsThey’ll help you if you need itThey care about othersThey’re always clean and primpedpreferably have money and standingwell-respected Those are all good things and some […]
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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Deuteronomy 31:6 So many examples in the Old and New Testaments where God’s people have felt like He failed them The Israelites
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin,and have omitted the weightier matters of the law,judgment, mercy, and faith:these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.Matthew 23:23 The Pharisees paid tithes of what they wanted, but they left out what was important to GodThey
Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so He bringeth them unto their desired haven. Psalm 107:28-30 We have much trouble in the world right nowWe
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People like to have an image to look toWhen Moses went up to the mountain, the people made a golden calfSomething to look to, to be a representative of GodThe heathen love their idols but is it just the heathen? Later on in scripture, the Israelites wanted to have a King, to be like other
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To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Proverbs 21:3 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he
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Some days I don’t know what I am going to write aboutToday is one of those daysIt is a sort of a walk in faithWe all have those times where we just have to trust and know that He will come through for us, that He will direct our steps In Matthew 10 and Luke
Specific InstructionsGod gives us specific Instructions and has throughout The BibleTake your staff and Moses parted the Red SeaAnd Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night,and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. Exodus 14:21 He told
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He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Luke 16:10 We know from the Parable of the TalentsGod rewards us and increases our abilities when we use what He gives usThose who had done well and
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So many offensesEvery single dayFrom all sorts of people, near and farHow to learn to be gracious like the Lord Jesus was graciousLike Paul was gracious and loving to those who offended HimLike Stephen who, while he was being stoned to death, prayed for those who martyred him that God lay not the charge against
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