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Our Heavenly Father's Love Letter
My Child . . .
You may not know me, but I know everything about you … Psalm 139:1
I know when you sit down and when you rise up … Psalm 139:2
I am familiar with all your ways … Psalm 139:3
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered … Matthew 10:29-31
For you were made in my image … Genesis 1:27
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Whose "Place" Is It? . . . ephesians 4:27 & romans 12:19
I heard something recently in the New Testament that was expressed in a way that really opened my spiritual eyes, just like the blinders came off of some passages that I had heard maybe a hundred times before in my life, but now it is fresh ( Read more... ) -
The Only Object Worthy of Hope, is God . . . psalm 42
Even now as circumstances begin to overwhelm my family and me, as God is working in our lives to create (or allow) a situation that will prove once again God's grace as the only explanation as to how victory can occur through this season of dryness, God whispered scripture while I was asleep that could only have come from Him, my Comforter and my ( Read more... ) -
Everlasting Joy . . . john 16:22
A quote from John Piper: "It is a great sadness when sufferers seek relief by spariing God his sovereignty over pain. The sadness is that this undercuts the very hope it aims to create."
The great purpose of life is to magnify - whether by life of by death - the One who created us and died for us and lives as Lord of all forever, Jesus Christ.
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And Can It Be . . . ephesians 2:7
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For the joy set before Him endured the cross . . . hebrews 12:2
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, ( Read more... ) -
For My Good
And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? deuteronomy 10:12-13 ( Read more... ) -
The "How Is My Living?" Test
Often when I see signs on the back of an eighteen-wheeler rolling down the interstate, one of the signs will ask "How is my driving?" I'm guessing that the drivers are a little more cautious because if they regularly cut people off in traffic, some other driver is likely to phone in to the trucker's office and complain about the poor driving of the ( Read more... ) -
Public Concensus vs. Personal Conviction . . . matthew 16:13, 15
O.S. Hawkins preached at yesterday's morning church service on the two questions that Jesus asked of His disciples . . . When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? and following with He said unto them, But whom say you that I am?If I must base my thought process ( Read more... ) -
Quench the Fiery Darts . . . ephesians 6:16
Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ephesians 6:14-16 ( Read more... )