“Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.”  Matthew 18:15  I wonder if there’s a verse in the Bible that is less followed than the one above. Jesus, speaking to His disciples, tells them that if…
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“You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.”  Deuteronomy 5:33  Sometimes, the world may view God as a domineering tyrant who wants…
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“Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”  Matthew 26:53-54  I once taught a small group Bible study at a convalescent home, and I stated that Jesus…
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Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. Genesis 13:1 Abram would one day be known as Abraham, the father of the Jews.  And though he made a mess of things in Egypt, God had a plan for his life. Abram…
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For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe. 1 Thessalonians 2:9-10 Paul…
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My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;…
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Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” Lamentations 3:22-24 In the midst of great suffering, Jeremiah writes this great truth found in the Book of Lamentations. Written…
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“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”  Matthew 7:13-14 I love to hike. There’s…
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Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed to Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God. 2 Chronicles 33:12-13 When Hezekiah, Judah’s king, was ill and at the point…
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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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