O LORD, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds. I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the LORD. Psalm 116:16-17 The sacrifice of thanksgiving was a part of the peace offerings that could be…
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Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe His word, But complained in their tents, And did not heed the voice of the LORD. Psalms 106:24-25 The Israelites were promised a land flowing with milk and honey. But instead, they did not believe God, but complained in their tents. They didn’t want to…
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Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh. Ezekiel 11:19 God is speaking through Ezekiel here to the people of Isreal about how He will restore them after they go into captivity. They had…
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 Poverty can often be frowned upon in society. But being poor can have its benefits. When someone is poor, they are often aware of their needs. Biblically speaking, being poor, specifically spiritually poor, allows us to be in a place…
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“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” Matthew 6:25 Do you have a tendency to worry? I think we all do. Thankfully, Jesus…
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34 Let’s face it, it’s not hard to drive ourselves crazy. As a matter of fact, there is much we can do to make ourselves nervous wrecks. From worrying ourselves into a frenzy with…
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For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection. Romans 6:5 The Greek word for united in this verse is a term from the field of biology and means, “parts united so as to form a single part,” such as when two branches of…
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Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded Israel. Nehemiah 8:1 So here we see all the people gathering together to hear…
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“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father…
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 How glorious is our God. He begins His love letter to man, the Bible, with a declaration of His existence without any further explanation or defense. We know God existed before this reference and that we were in His heart already before this reference as…
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