Tag: trouble
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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 Glorious Mystery of “Christ in You”
Colossians 1:27 “the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” The mysteries of God are wonderful things, but they are things that are only…
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Tests of Faith
Hebrews 11:6 “Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” Do you really believe that God exists? I mean really. Is the idea of God a wispy notion, a “pie in the sky” sort of thing to you, or do you see Him as a fact,…
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Looking Up
Psalm 59:9 “O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress.” Have you ever been in a difficult and stressful situation that you saw no way out of? Perhaps you’re in such a situation right now? So, what should we do in such cases? What do we do when there…
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To the Bewildered
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.” Some things make absolutely no sense! Anything in your life like that right now? There is in mine! …
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Overwhelmed?
Psalm 61:1-2 “Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Have you ever been overwhelmed? It’s a feeling of not having enough to face the circumstances of life. It’s a feeling…
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In Times of Chaos
1 Samuel 14:6 “Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, ‘Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.’” Have you ever looked around you and thought…
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Why This?
1 Samuel 9:5-6 “When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, ‘Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.’ But he said to him, ‘Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a…
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Victory Over the Accuser
Revelation 12:10-11 “And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, ‘Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the…
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Will the Trouble Never End?
Isaiah 40:25-31 “Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God’? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is…
To Encourage You 