When you spend un-distracted time in the presence of The Lord the most fascinating thing you experience is His personality, not just the things He says. It’s not just the conversation that exhilarates your heart, it’s who He is. In His presence is fullness of joy, and at His right hand are pleasures forevermore. He […]
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Paul said in Ephesians 4:1 that he was “the prisoner of The Lord,” and in Ephesians 3:1 he said that he was”the prisoner of Christ for the sake of the Gentiles.” Have you ever felt hemmed in, constrained by some situation, stuck in a place you can’t get out of. That is is exactly where
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Many times over the years I have attended funerals when afterward someone would say to me something like, “I don’t know how people who aren’t Christians deal with things like death.” I totally agree with what they were saying. Death is such a difficult thing to deal with on many levels and the thought of
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“My times are in Thy hand.” That is from Psalm 31, and it reminds us that there is someone bigger than us that is ordering our days and our lives. There are so many things that happen in our daily lives that can cause frustration and anxiety if we don’t rest in the reality that
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Col. 3:11 a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL. That is such a remarkable verse, especially those last six words that says “Christ is All, and in All.” Full surrender to, and full discovery of
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When Jehoshaphat became king it says about him in 2 Chronicles 17:6, “his heart soared in the ways of the Lord and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.” I love that description of him, and have made that a personal prayer and quest; that my heart would soar in the ways
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2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4 For by these He has granted
Did you know that you are standing IN grace, not just ON grace. Rom.5 :1, “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; Whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, And the righteous will walk in them, But transgressors will stumble in them. This verse is Hosea 14:9 and is a powerful word that is so relevant to our everyday lives In
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