Tag: Word of God
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Your Word
Psalm 19:7 “The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.” Your Word is pure (Psalm 19:8) Your Word is true (Psalm 19:9) Your Word is more precious than gold (Psalm 19:10) Your Word warns me of danger (Psalm 19:11) Your Word shows me my…
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What’s the Focus?
1 Thessalonians 5:27 “I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.” My wife attended a church when she was a child, but it was a church where she never heard the gospel. It’s almost unbelievable that this could be the case, but that was her experience. I…
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We Are What We Eat
Romans 15:4-5 “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus.” Have you heard the saying…
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His Word is not Bound!
John 18:12 “So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jewsarrested Jesus and bound Him.” 2 Timothy 2:8-9 “Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!” The history of…
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Fear: the Antidote
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” Identifying the source of a problem is always essential to addressing that problem. For example, if all we focus on and treat are the symptoms of a disease, the disease will…
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The Indwelling Word
Colossians 3:16 “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” God often uses very interesting language to get His point across to us in His Word. In the verse above He does…
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A Word to Husbands
Colossians 3:19 “Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.” One of the confirmations that the Bible is God’s Word is the economy of words that it uses to say the things it does. An example is seen in the verse above. Here, in Chapter 3 of Colossians, Paul gives some commands regarding…
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Hope’s Foundation
Isaiah 61:1-3 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance…
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Bread from Heaven
Exodus 16:17-21 “They gathered, some more, some less . . . whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. And Moses said to them, ‘Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.’ But they did not listen to Moses.…
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What Does THAT Mean?
Mark 6:35-37 “And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.’ But he answered them, ‘You give them something to eat.’ And they said to him, ‘Shall we go…
To Encourage You 