Tag: Word of God
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Wisdom’s Source
1 Kings 3:26-27 “Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, ‘Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.’ But the other said, ‘He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.’ Then the king answered and…
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To See Jesus
John 14:21 “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” One of the things that Jesus said in His Sermon on the Mount was “Blessed are the pure in…
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Our Thought Life
Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” How big is your God? Well, however big you think He is, He is much…
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To the Victor belongs the Spoil!
Psalm 119:162 “I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.” As with a number of Bible passages I’ve studied of late, I have to thank the late F.W. Boreham for his wonderful insights on the verse above. Boreham points out that one of the keys to understanding this verse is the idea…
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To Hear the Voice of God
1 Peter 3:9 “Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.” In the book of 1 Samuel, we read the account of the young boy Samuel in the temple. His mother Hannah had dedicated him to…
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The Cure for Pride
Deuteronomy 17:18-20 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words…
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The Whole Counsel of God
1 Peter 2:16-17 “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servantsof God. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.” Have you ever wondered why there are so many Protestant denominations? Do you have any idea of how many there are? I can think of the…
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Master Teacher
Luke 24:25 “And he said to them, ‘O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!’” In our adult Sunday School class, we are studying about how the story of the coming of the Messiah is prophesied over and over again in the Old Testament. In the first chapter…
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Satisfied?
1 Peter 2:1-3 “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.” I’ve been reading a book by the great early…
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Seeds
1 Peter 1:23-25 “You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for ‘All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.’ And this word is the good…
To Encourage You 