Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.“ 1 Samuel 7:12 Ending my playing career, I was fortunate enough to play for a soccer team that was owned and run by a ministry. Our goal was to use the…
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However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life. 1 Timothy 1:16 Paul considered himself the worst of the worst. Before coming to Christ, he persecuted the early church Christians mercilessly, dragging…
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I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Psalm 32:8 Life is full of ups and downs and we tend to want direction or guidance in those tough moments. In this Psalm, we are reminded of a promise we tend to forget, God…
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There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always. Acts 10:1-2 In just these couple of verses, we learn so much about…
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are…
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“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.” Matthew 6:9 Jesus now begins to give His disciples, and us, a blueprint for prayer. NOT “Pray THESE words.” But “Pray in this manner.” The first word of the prayer is very significant, “Our.” Jesus wants us to know right up front that we are ALL in…
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“And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” John 16:8 When one hears the word “conviction,” there is usually a sense of fear. In the courtroom, a conviction usually means a sentence is being passed down on a guilty individual. However, when the Bible speaks…
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“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Mark 14:38 This is one of those verses that reminds us of just how much Jesus knows about human nature. We need to be watching ourselves and praying so we don’t enter into temptation. Jesus tells us that happens not because we…
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The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel. Nehemiah 1:1 Nehemiah was a Jew. For almost a century the Jews had been back in their own land and Nehemiah could have joined them, but he chose…
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“However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.” Acts 14:20 Unbelieving Jews who had wanted to stone Paul back in Iconium caught up with him in Lystra, stoned him, and left him for dead. Today’s verse reveals that he…
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