Remember me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people. Nehemiah 5:19 Here we see Nehemiah praying to the Lord and when he said “Remember me, my God,” he was looking for a high five from the Lord.  You see, his heart was to please God and not the people.  Despite…
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So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “You are blessed of the LORD, for you have shown this kindness to your lord, to Saul, and have buried him. And now may the LORD show kindness and truth to you. I also will repay you this kindness, because you…
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I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me. Psalm 101:3 David, as king of Israel in Psalm 101, writes out his vow to seek to live in godliness as the ruler over God’s people. You would be well to go…
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“And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.“ Matthew 7:25 The storms of life are going to try to blow us down. They are going to throw everything at us in an attempt to shake…
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”  John 13:34  The Greek word used here for new implies freshness, the opposite of unworn. In the Old Testament ,the law boiled down to two things, loving God above all else and…
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“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”    Matthew 6:22-23 God’s Word often uses the eye to…
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Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” Numbers 22:28 The story of Balaam and the donkey is one of the most incredible stories in the Bible. It’s the story of a greedy man who the Lord…
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“For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.” Galatians 2:19 There was a suspenseful movie I saw years ago called Double Jeopardy. It was about a person who found a way around the legal system by pretending they were dead so that they couldn’t be charged for the same crime…
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You enlarged my path under me; So that my feet did not slip. Psalm 18:36 Imagine crossing a mountain, on a path so treacherous that making one mistake results in an immediate plunge to death.  Now imagine divine intervention that causes that path to widen as you take each step, giving you sure and stable footing…
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Who is he who condemns?  It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Romans 8:34 If you are like me, you may sometimes feel like God is just not aware of all you are going through. Maybe He knows…
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