Tag: love of God
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Jehovah Jireh
Nehemiah 9:18-21 “Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies, you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor…
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Jealousy
Psalm 48:14 “This is God, our God forever and ever.” The Bible tells us that God is a jealous God. In fact, one of His names is Jealous (Exodus 34:14). Doesn’t that seem strange? Usually, we think of jealousy in a negative sense. One of the dictionary definitions of this word is “feeling or showing…
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Glorious Commands
Philippians 4:6 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” 1 John 5:3 “And his commandments are not burdensome.” How do you view the commands of God? Do you picture Him as an overbearing task master, demanding certain things of you and ready…
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To Know as We are Known
Philemon 4-7 “I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers . . .For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.” Heaven will be wonderful place. One of the reasons for this is the full and wonderful understanding…
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Why Was It All Written?
2 Corinthians 2:4 “I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.” Do you understand what motivated God to give us the Bible? Why would He do such a thing? …
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True Love
1 Peter 1:22-23 “Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.” The Bible tells us that when someone becomes a believer in Jesus Christ,…
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To Embrace or Reject?
John 21:20 “. . . the disciple whom Jesus loved . . .” One of the thoughts that I had as I reflected on John’s description of himself in the phrase from John 21:20 above, was that although this was an expression that was unique to the apostle John, it could have been used by…
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Uncle George
Acts 26:9-11 “I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth. And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. And I punished…
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How Will They Know?
John 21:20 “. . . the disciple whom Jesus loved . . .” As I read again the short phrase above, the one that John used throughout Scriptures to identify himself, a question that came to my mind was this one: “How did he know?” What was it about Jesus that made it so clear…
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Jesus Loves Me, This I Know
John 21:20 “. . . the disciple whom Jesus loved . . .” One of the interesting things about the apostle John was how he identified himself in his writings. It was John who gave us the gospel of John; First, Second, and Third John; and Revelation, yet the only book in which he gives…
To Encourage You 