Surveying the Scriptures

Betrayal

We all have had betrayal in our lifeSomeone you trusted stabbed you in the backHopefully when you think of it, it’s a faint memory because you have been through the forgiveness process:Letting it goPutting it in God’s handsLetting Him take vengeanceForgiving and trying to forget A memory crept up this morningOf someone that betrayed me […]

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Check your Heart

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 1 Corinthians 11:31 Look internally and see what your motives are.Judge them against the Word of God.Do you detect ego?Or maybe lust. Lust for pleasure, lust for material possessions. Check your heart and see what your driving force is. Most likely, there is some

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Abiding with God

Psalm 15 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? v 1 He that walketh uprightly,and worketh righteousness,and speaketh the truth in his heart. v 2 He that backbiteth not with his tongue,nor doeth evil to his neighbour,nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. v 3 In whose

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Being Perfect in God’s Sight

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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Specific Instructions

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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That Check in Your Spirit

You know when you want to say something and you get a check in your spirit that you’d better not?Or when you’re going to do something and you know better? That check in your spirit is from the Lord I grew up with the old cartoonsThere was a devil on one shoulder telling people to

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When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the Earth?

I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8 Why do you think Jesus asked this question?When He comes, when Jesus returns, will there be faith here?Will all have given up?Who will be left standing?If the Earth is convulsing,if

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God’s Hand is Not Short

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear:But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. Isaiah 59:1-2 The whole chapter of Isaiah 59 tells how God’s people have gone astrayAt

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