Tag: presumption
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Plan B
1 Samuel 28:6-7 “And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets. Then Saul said to his servants, ‘Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.’” Do you have a plan B when it comes to following the…
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Future Thoughts
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 . . . Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this…
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A Tragic Presumption
1 Samuel 2:25 “But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.” Of the things I’ve come to learn about God, one of the most sobering is that He is nobody’s fool. You can’t dupe Him or in any way “get one over…
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The conscience
Psalm 19:13 “Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.” One of man’s tendencies is to presume on the patience and mercy of God. To “presume” is to proudly take liberties. Usually when someone cares about what God…
To Encourage You 