I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. Psalm 81:10 This psalm from the Asaph family of worship leaders focuses on God’s heart for His people. His will for them and finally their responsibility to Him. I would encourage…
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 So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed. Luke 5:16 Jesus liked to get away from distractions of life and just focus on the Lord in prayer.  He is our great example. We need to spend time with the Lord and build our relationship with the Father.  Let us pray and give Him thanks…
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Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23 To follow Christ requires more than just desire. We have to be willing to pay the price, we must take up our cross. Taking up your cross…
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Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6             Here Paul is telling us not to worry not to torment ourselves with disturbing thoughts that consume us to the point where we start suffering, and the way we prevent that from…
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Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.   Psalm 139:16             In my mid-thirties I lost my wife, my mom, and my dad all in a five-year span. It was a difficult time, yet with every…
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For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26             Have you ever heard people say, “We’re all children of God!” It sounds good and it can even sound true, but this verse tells us only those who have faith in Christ Jesus are sons or children of God.              This isn’t the…
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“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 When I look back at my personal walk with God, I can clearly see times when I felt very far away from God and other times when I felt like God was pulling…
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies. Genesis 32:10 Jacob departed from home with nothing two decades prior to find a wife in the…
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But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years. Luke 1:7 You know, God has a way of answering our prayers, and then some, in His time.   In the above verse, Zacharias and Elizabeth had probably been praying for years that the Lord would bless them with a…
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23 Prior to these verses, Paul gave us a list of the “works of the flesh,” a list of seventeen-plus attitudes and behaviors that are abundantly founds in the lives of those who reject the grace of God. And it’s…
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