Tag: God's sovereignty
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Plan A or Plan B
James 4:15 “Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’” There’s a verse in the Old Testament that was the basis for a song we used to sing in a church I attended many years ago. Its refrain went like this: “I cannot go beyond the word…
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Plans
James 4:13-14 “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” So,…
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Gracious Restraint
2 Samuel 16:13 “So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust.” Have you ever heard someone say or have you ever read somewhere that “God has a wonderful plan for your life”?…
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Why is this happening to me?!
Hebrews 12:3-6 “Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? ‘My son, do not regard lightly…
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The “God Things”
Matthew 12:6-7 “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Some years ago, I was having a conversation with a friend whose view was that although God may have been involved…
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Why Thorns?
2 Corinthians 12:7 “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.” If you are a Christian, are you one in which everything in life is wonderful? Do you have any…
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“Acts of God”
Matthew 8:27 “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?” Luke 12:24 “Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!” Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods: we have a name for them. We call…
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When Things Make No Sense
John 19:24-25 “So the soldiers did these things, but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.” Have you ever had something happen to you in your life or in the lives of others you love and care about that made absolutely…
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Choices
Ephesians 1:4-5 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.” Have you ever thought about how…
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The “chance” events of life
Ruth 2:2-3 “And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, ‘Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.’ And she said to her, ‘Go, my daughter.’ So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come…
To Encourage You 