Day: May 1, 2017

CAN HE HEAR YOU NOW?

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Why couldn’t they have heard from God themselves? Why were they not speaking to God directly on their own behalf… NUMBERS 9:8 _____________________________________________ “And Moses said to them, ‘Stand still, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.’ “ Among the children of Israel there were those who had become defiled because they had touched a corpse. The touching of a corpse rendered a man unclean and unable to fellowship with God or His people. The message that God was sending to Israel was that they were to steer clear of anything that suggested death and decay. …

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Let God Do the Exalting

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Proverbs 16:7 “When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” Think of David, the young musician, tending his father’s sheep back on the hills of Judea many centuries ago. He was a self-taught, gifted musician. He didn’t go on tour, trying to make a name for himself. Instead, he sang to the sheep. He had no idea that someday his lyrics would find their way into the psalter or would be the very songs that have inspired and comforted millions of people through long and dark nights. David didn’t seek …

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A Call to Godly Living

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We can better represent Christ in the world when we exchange our desires for His. ROMANS 12:1 1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. The apostle Paul lived in an age when sensuality, the pursuit of pleasure, and rebellion against the Lord were prevalent. In response, he wrote letters urging Christians not to follow in the ways of the world. Like those early believers, we are to pursue godliness by… Presenting our bodies to God. Our total …

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“His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers.”—Song of Solomon 5:13.

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  LO, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on thine holiday attire and go forth to gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. Thou knowest whither to betake thyself, for to thee “the beds of spices” are well known, and thou hast so often smelt the perfume of “the sweet flowers,” that thou wilt go at once to thy well-beloved and find all loveliness, all joy in Him. That cheek once so rudely smitten with a rod, oft bedewed with tears of …

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Giants And Grasshoppers

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Dr. Mike Murphy I cannot even begin to imagine what those forty days must have been like for Caleb. To have seen with his own eyes everything the Lord had promised.  To have tasted the milk and honey the Lord had told them flowed from the land.  To have seen grape bunches so large it took two men to carry them.  Every word the Lord had promised, his eyes had just seen. But as he returned to their camp in Kadesh with the other eleven scouts, his ears must have deceived him.  The words he heard spoken did not match …

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THE SOURCE OF HOPE

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1 Peter 1:3-9(KJV) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial …

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READY FOR GLORY

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On March 1, 1981, the famous British expositor D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones lay on his deathbed. From 1939 to 1968, he had served as the pastor of London’s Westminster Chapel. Now at the end of his life, Lloyd-Jones had lost the ability to speak. Indicating that he did not want any more prayers for his recovery, he wrote on a piece of paper: “Do not hold me back from glory.” What a picture of “perfect peace!” The Bible says “The steadfast of mind Thou wilt keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in Thee. The LORD Who keeps you will neither …

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34 God’s Fairness in Judgment

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Ezekiel Msg 34. God has heard the Jews complaining that His ways were not equally applied to all the people of Israel. God turns it back on them and asks them to look at themselves and see that they were unequal or unfair. They were neglecting to see God’s absolute standard of justice. It is equally applied to all. Mankind cannot see into the hearts of others. Whereas God looks into the hearts and sees the actual person regardless of what sort of front they put on for display (I Samuel 16:7; Jeremiah 17:10). God will judge each person equally …

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81 The Gog and Magog Invasion Pt. I

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The Lord now comes to the prophet Ezekiel again with a prophecy regarding at least eight nation who will invade Israel. At the beginning of this prophecy we see Ezekiel receiving a prophecy from the God of the universe and he is told to “set his face” against Gog of the land of Magog and that he is the chief prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. Ezekiel as God’s representative is in direct opposition to the man Gog and his goals. In the beginning of this section of Scripture the focus is on one person named Gog, the leader of …

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