Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?” And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of…
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The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.Proverbs 14:14 Elimelech, in the book of Ruth, lived in Bethlehem (meaning house of bread) in the days the judges ruled. When a famine came upon the land of Promise, he took his wife Naomi and…
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For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you.2 Peter 1:12-13 Peter wrote this epistle knowing he was…
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For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation,Hebrews 2:2-3a The message of the Law and the Prophets mediated by angels was unchangeable. This “word spoken” carried blessings for obedience and punishment for disobedience. The…
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And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.Revelation 5:6 Revelation chapters…
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“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”John 15:15 When one thinks of the word “servant,” it usually comes with negative connotations. We might…
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For by me your days will be multiplied, And years of life will be added to you.Proverbs 9:11 God is the great multiplier. Take the fish and the loaves story in Matthew 14:7, where we read that from 5 loaves and two fish, 5,000 people were fed. It seems impossible, but not with God. Our…
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Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.Ephesians 4:32 Too often, even as believers, we tend to bring up the past and use it as a weapon against others, even those who are closest to us. Even though we know that forgiveness is the foundation of the…
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Read Proverbs 12:1-16 In Proverbs 12, Solomon focuses his attention on God’s word on several different men. The wise and good man (v. 1-2), the bad man (v. 2-3), the glad man (v. 4), the mad man (v. 5-9) whose thinking is all wrong, the working man (v. 10-12) the watchful man (v. 13-16). It…
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Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai: “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I…
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