For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21 CSB The Bible is not big just a big rule book, it addresses our deepest issues. It’s funny, sometimes the deeper we can go into theological studies we can be standing too close to the picture and …
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Does God do our bidding?
Commit your works to Yahweh and your thoughts will be established. Proverbs 16:3 CSB/Hebrew Interlinear Does God do our bidding? We’ve got this notion in American Christianity that God is just this figurative Genie from a Disney movie that is there at our beck and call for any time we …
Read More »The 23rd Psalm Part 3 of 3
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:5-6 ESV This is the last part of …
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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4 ESV Part 1, we talked about how God intends to rule His creation perfectly, providing for that creation’s every need, even if it …
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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Psalm 23:1-3 ESV How many times have you heard the 23rd Psalm memorialized in movies and culture that it just …
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Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26 CSB We tend to get so caught up in the day-in-day-out hustle and bustle that we …
Read More »Satan Believes in all the Right Stuff, What Makes You Different than him?
You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe- and shudder. Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless? James 2:19-20 CSB This may sound offensive to you, but Satan really does have more knowledge about God and who He is than you …
Read More »Patience in Waiting for God
Jacob, why do you say, and Israel, why do you assert: “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God?” Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never becomes faint …
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Who do I have in heaven but you? And I desire nothing on earth but you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart, my portion forever. Psalm 73:25-26 CSB When I first heard a preacher discuss these verses above, it was absolutely …
Read More »Being Weak in a Time of Monsters
Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself. Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it would leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is …
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