The posturing that positions us to advance in grace with God and with men always starts when nobody else is watching. 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 NASB [14] But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet […]
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Ephesians 6:11-17 NASB95 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. [12] For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness
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2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NASB95 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. [17] For momentary, light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, [18] while we look not at the things which are
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Have you ever noticed that Jesus never complained about whatever situation He found Himself in? Even at Gethsemane He asked if the cup could pass from Him, but He didn’t complain. In the end, He simply reaffirmed His total surrender to whatever the Father wanted. Several times in the gospel of John Jesus said that
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When people do or say hurtful things, are you hurt by them, or are you hurt for them? There’s a huge difference between being hurt with someone and hurting for someone. Jesus isn’t just our standard; He is our life, and therefore, we live from Him and not just for Him. Jesus doesn’t walk around
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Christ likeness is not an imitation of Jesus. The whole WWJD (What would Jesus do) campaign years ago revealed the horror of how little the Church understood the heart of the gospel. Think about it: if you faced every situation with the prayer, “What would Jesus do” we are actually saying, “What would Jesus do
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What does it mean to do something in Jesus name: to pray for someone to be healed in Jesus’s name, or to simply pray to the Father in Jesus’ name, or to minister the word in the name of Jesus? We get some real insight from the healing of the man by the gate beautiful
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Acts 10:1-5 NASB [1] … Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, a [2] a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually. [3] About the ninth hour
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The word “eternal” comes from the Greek word that simply means “age.” Throughout the New Testament, the writers referred to “this age” and “the age to come.” The age to come is obviously a reference to the time of the kingdom of heaven’s full manifestation on the earth. We are living in the now time
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When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead He was restoring to Lazarus the life that he had lost, and when Lazarus walked out of the tomb at the command of Christ he was fully alive. In the same way, every time a human being puts their trust in Jesus as their Savior, the life that
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