Devotionals written by Chuck Jones to encourage and build up the body of Christ.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him. Obedience isn’t just how we love Him, it’s because we love Him. Caught in the web of His lovesick heart […]
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I’m been obsessing over the last couple of months for the right terminology to explain what it means to “abide in Christ.” Every time I get comfortable with language, I end up longing for something better. It’s so important to me because the subject is so significant. In Jesus’s last conversation with the 12 before
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John 4:23 A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers (Adorers) will worship (adore) God in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers. Song 1:12 ¶ “While the king was at his table, My perfume gave forth
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Deut. 7:6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. Deut. 7:7 ¶ “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose
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Scripture often refers to God’s presence as His “Face.” David’s one Thing desire was to spend his life seeking God’s face, Beholding God’s beauty. That sounds like such a wonderful and pleasant pursuit, and of course it is wonderful, but the price is sometimes not so pleasant. When John turned to “The Voice” in Revelation
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Joel 2:25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you. Joel 2:26 ¶ “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with
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8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. 9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice. 10 My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my
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Is. 66:1 ¶ Thus says the LORD, “Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? (Where is My resting place) Is. 66:2 “For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came
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Dan. 10:12 Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words. This verse reveals the path to apprehending from God. Hungry
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2Cor. 6:12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. God’s vision for who we are, and what we are called to walk in is mind-blowing. Listen to what Paul says about our potential, “Eph. 3:19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may
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