We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father. 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 Paul opens up this letter right away mentioning that…
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And Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” Joshua 3:5 In the above verse, Joshua instructed God’s people to “Sanctify yourselves.” Sanctify yourselves and you will see God do amazing things! Here this word sanctify is qadash in the Hebrew and it means to “keep yourself clean.” It is a…
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Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy…
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And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching. Mark 6:6 When Jesus had come into His own country, He was astounded at their unbelief. It is an amazing thing that Jesus marvels at our belief. Before many healings, Jesus is asking if they have faith and…
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“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6 Among all the beatitudes that Jesus gives at the start of His Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, my favorite is this fourth one here. I think it is the one that the American church fails at the…
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To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Proverbs 21:3 In the Old Testament, the children of Israel were to take animal sacrifices before God, in order to reflect a right relationship with God, by offering religious, ceremonial sacrifices. Today, we are no longer required to offer animal sacrifices but it’s easy to think…
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“For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.” 2 Chronicles 16:9 Do you ever wonder what God does with His time? Well, according to the verse above, it would seem that along with balancing the entire…
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He will bless those who fear the Lord, Both small and great. Psalm 115:13 In Mark 10:23, Jesus tells His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!” The next verse tells us how astonished the disciples were at this saying, so Jesus repeats what He just told them. Like…
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“Pray without ceasing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:17 When all else fails and all of our humanly efforts have been exhausted, sometimes it is necessary to just sit and pray. I’ll never forget an old interview I saw with Billy Graham. The interviewer asked him that if he could have done anything differently over his career of…
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