Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!” Ezekiel 18:31-32  God tells Israel through Ezekiel that they don’t…
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Then the king said to me, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may…
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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 We know from the Word that God gives us His grace in abundance, but He also doesn’t waste His grace.  He gives it to us just when we need it.  If a hardship is facing…
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If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, That You may be feared. Psalm 130:3-4 I love reading verses in the Bible about the Lord’s forgiveness. It’s a proof of His love and His mercy and it helps me get through the day. Because just as this verse says, if the Lord…
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Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14 Oh, that it would only be so easy. Mike and Jim began gossiping rudely about a fellow coworker who is not pulling his weight on the team project due Friday. “I should…
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Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord. Acts 18:24 – 25a This portion of scripture which describes Apollos’ ministry continues on to verse 28.  We are told that Apollos taught accurately, spoke boldly, and helped…
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“Yet in Your manifold mercies, You did not forsake them in the wilderness.  The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, To lead them on the road;  nor the pillar of fire by night, To show the way they should go.  You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, And did not withhold…
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While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.” But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. Matthew 27:19-20…
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Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12:1 Having referenced the lives of so many saints through the ages who had lived by faith in…
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And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him. 1 Samuel 22:2 Hiding out in the desert from King Saul, David drew many men to himself. Men who were discontented, in debt, and in distress. They…
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