Tag: faith
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The Stayed Mind
Isaiah 26:3 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” One of the great attributes of God is that He rewards those who trust Him. We are told that “without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that…
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An Enduring Faith
James 1:2-4 “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” The Christian life is a journey. It begins for everyone at the moment of the new birth when the…
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Drawing Near to God
James 4:8 “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.” Do you believe the promises of God? The Bible is filled with them – but do you know what they are? And of those you may know, that you may have read or otherwise heard about, do you actually believe them? Do…
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Tests of True Faith – Part 5
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 “You turned to God . . . to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.” Tests of true faith are found many places in Scripture. One such place is in the opening chapter of 1 Thessalonians. Here, the…
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Tests of True Faith – Part 4
1 Thessalonians 1:9 “You turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.” Marks of true belief: Paul is telling us about them as he writes to the believers at Thessalonica in the verse above. He tells us a whole series of things about them that identified them as those who are…
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Fear: the Antidote
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” Identifying the source of a problem is always essential to addressing that problem. For example, if all we focus on and treat are the symptoms of a disease, the disease will…
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Motivated by the Invisible
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 “We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” Those who call themselves born again believers in Jesus Christ believe in a God that they cannot see. Because…
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The World’s Two Religions
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Do you realize that there are really only two religions in the world? They come in many forms, but in their basic essence there are only two. One form is rooted in…
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Good News
Hebrews 4:2 “For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.” Some years back I was in a conversation in my workplace and it revolved around the miserable condition of the world at that moment. …
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Spiritual Death – and Life
Colossians 3:3 ”For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Everyone has two natures. It’s just a fact of how God created us. There is a physical nature and a spiritual nature. At the creation, both of these natures were consistent in that they were both alive. God breathed life into Adam…
To Encourage You 