Tag: trust
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Confidence!
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 “Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.“ Are you…
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The Stayed Mind
Isaiah 26:3 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” One of the great attributes of God is that He rewards those who trust Him. We are told that “without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that…
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Integrity
1 Thessalonians 2:10 “You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.” Integrity: one dictionary defines it as “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness; the state of being whole and undivided.” This character trait is something almost anyone can appreciate. We value…
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God’s Necessary 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 “For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.” Have you ever thought it strange that the Bible contains commandments that it would…
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Every Need Supplied – But When?
Philippians 4:19 “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” I was listening to a message by the late Elizabeth Elliott the other day (thank God for such wonderful Christian teachers), and in her teaching she shared some insights on the verse above that really helped me. …
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Prisoner for Christ
Philemon 1 “Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus.” The words above were written by Paul from a Roman prison. Yet, he didn’t see himself as a prisoner of Rome so much as “a prisoner for Christ Jesus.” He was a prisoner for Christ Jesus in the sense that he was in this situation because of his…
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The Blessed
John 20:29 “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” When the Bible speaks in the present tense, as it so often does, it does so to show us the way things are, right now, at this very moment, not the way things will be. In the verse above we can make…
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Anxiety!
1 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.” Anxiety plagues our age. Mental anguish, depression, worry, whatever you call it, it’s everywhere and affects everyone at one time or another. For some it’s a never-ending battle. It’s simply a fact of life as one looks to the future and fear…
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Of Roosters and Men
John 18:25-27 “Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, ’You also are not one of his disciples, are you?’ He denied it and said, ’I am not.’ One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, ’Did I not see…
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The Basis of Faith
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Are you a person of faith? No matter what you think about this question, the fact is that everyone is a person of faith. You’ve probably heard people say such things as the following: “You just have to…
To Encourage You 