Tag: gifts of God
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Are you sitting down?
2 Samuel 7:18-19 “Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, ‘Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?’” Have you ever had someone ask you before they told you what they had to say, “Are you sitting down?” If you have, you know that…
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A Sober Mind
Romans 12:3 “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.” When you think of the word “sober,” what is the first thing that comes to…
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Open Hands
Psalm 145:16 “You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.” There are many things that only God can do. He alone controls the weather. He alone sustains the universe by His mighty power. The sun continues to shine, the moon continues to rotate around the earth, the plants continue to grow and produce…
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The Gift God Gave to His Only Begotten Son
John 17:6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me” God is a giver of very great gifts. He so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son – God the greatest giver, gave the world His greatest…
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Our Desires
Romans 8:32-35 “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? . . . Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?” God…
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Eternal Possessions
1 Corinthians 3:21-23 “For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.” The possessions of the Christian are beyond description. Paul expresses this here in 1 Corinthian 3. God…
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Be thankful
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” Are you thankful? We take so much for granted. Are we thankful that we can see? Not everyone can. Or that we can walk, talk, think, work, smell, or feel? …
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Rain
1 Kings 18:1 “After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, ‘Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.’” Have you ever pondered about rain? It’s such a common thing for us here in the northeastern United States that we can take it for…
To Encourage You 