Tag: faith
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Will the Trouble Never End?
Isaiah 40:25-31 “Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God’? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is…
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Crisis “Religion”
1 Samuel 15:22 “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.” As you weather the storms we are facing at this moment in history, including in your personal life, who or what are…
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Faith: It’s Personal
Mark 11:22 “And Jesus answered them, ‘Have faith in God.’” Many years ago, one of my office coworkers was talking about a subject (I don’t recall what the subject was) and he made this statement: “You have to have faith.” Well, because I knew that this person was not a Christian, I asked him this question: “Faith…
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A Faith that Gives
2 Corinthians 8:10 “And in this matter (of giving) I give my judgment: this benefits you” It is interesting that that apostle Paul gives so much emphasis to the matter of giving in his second letter to the Corinthians. He spends all of chapters 8 and 9 talking about it. He talks about the generosity of the…
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Standing on the Promises
Joshua 1:2-3 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.” Are…
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All Things
Mark 9:23 “All things are possible for one who believes.” God has so much He desires to do for us, to give us, to show us, and to pour out into our lives. They are vast things, immeasurable things, awesome things, but there is a key to receiving them. That key is belief. In the…
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The Things We Say
2 Corinthians 4:13 “I believed, and so I spoke.” Our words reveal the truth about our faith. Put another way, it’s not what we say about our faith that matters, but how our faith influences what we say about everything else. In James 2:18, James puts it this way: “But someone will say, ‘You have…
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The Unshakeable Fortress
Isaiah 49:16 “. . . your walls are continually before me.” Psalm 62:2 “He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.” In ancient cities, people relied on great walls for protection. They trusted in them. They served as a fortress. People believed they were safe as long…
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“Thoughts and Prayers”
2 Corinthians 1:11 “. . . the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.” One of the statements we hear in the face of the many tragedies that we seem to witness day in and day out in our world today is “You’re in my thoughts and prayers.” It’s a nice sentiment, but one…
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Self-Confidence
2 Corinthians 1:8-9 “For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on…
To Encourage You 