Month: June 2018

Divine Cultivation

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Divine Cultivation “I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: Lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day” (Isaiah 27:3). When the LORD Himself speaks in His own proper person rather than through a prophet, the word has a peculiar weight to believing minds. It is Jehovah Himself who is the keeper of His own vineyard; He does not trust it to any other, but He makes it His own personal care. Are they not well kept whom God Himself keeps? We are to receive gracious watering, not only every day and every …

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Getting Out of Step

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Saul reminds us that humility is a key to receiving the fullness of God’s blessings and power. Getting Out of Step 1 SAMUEL 13:5-14 5 Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in cliffs, in cellars, and in pits. 7 Also some of the …

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REASONS TO OBEY GOD

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REASONS TO OBEY GOD Daniel 9:3-4 3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4 I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, Daniel and his friends were in a strange land, prisoners of a king who sought to benefit from their superior skills and intellect. As he grew to manhood, Daniel managed to operate within the foreign system …

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A True Friend

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A True Friend 1 Samuel 23:14–18 14 David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him. 15 One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him. 16 Jonathan went to find David and encouraged him to stay strong in his faith in God. 17 “Don’t be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and …

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God Has a Purpose for Storms

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If you are in the midst of suffering, you can trust that God is using it for both your good and His kingdom. God Has a Purpose for Storms Psalm 119:71 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Perhaps you’ve seen a TV show in which a distracted person is about to step in front of a moving vehicle. Then suddenly another character races onto the scene, tackling him to prevent a catastrophe. Stunned and indignant, the near-victim fumes and swats at his rescuer—that is, until realizing he has just …

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In chapter two of the Book of Galatians, I saw something more clearly than I had before

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In chapter two of the Book of Galatians, I saw something more clearly than I had before. There was an event which had taken place earlier in Antioch which Paul was relating to the Galatian church as a great warning, both to them and therefore to us as well. A group of men had come down to Antioch from Jerusalem, having been sent from James. Peter and Barnabas were there with Paul, apparently co-ministering with him to the people there in Antioch. The Jews, upon arriving there, were very persuasive and succeeded in bringing even Peter and Barnabas under the …

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GOD’S GREAT CARE

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PSALM 42:1-2 _____________________________________________ “As the deer pants for streams of water, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? ” GOD’S GREAT CARE Do you know how much God cares for you? In this life we may never come to a full knowledge of just how much, but if we stop to meditate on this verse we might gain a closer understanding. The Lord has His ways of helping us see His truth. One morning, as I sat alone praying, I was surprised …

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The End Game

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Prophecy – Signs Pete Garcia And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Genesis 6:13 In the year 1656 Anno Domini (years from creation), the Lord destroyed the entire earth with a cataclysmic flood. He did so by removing the layer of crystalized ice that surrounded the earth. This ice barrier protected the earth from receiving the full power of the sun. God lowered this ice barrier into our atmosphere and in the process, caused the …

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…..With Just One Step!

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Dr. Mike Murphy “What was it like to live with Jesus?”, the young boy asked.  The man paused, and drew a deep breath as he reflected back in his mind.  As the memories raced through his thoughts, he fought back the tears that could have so easily filled his eyes.  Those years had been unlike any other, and even today he was still learning just how special they were. He remembered the three and one half years he had travelled the countryside with Christ, the time he spent with Him had gone by in a flash.  But in that moment, …

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“We love him, because he first loved us.”— 1 John 4:19

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“We love him, because he first loved us.”— 1 John 4:19 There is no light in the planet but that which proceedeth from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart but that which cometh from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing fountain of the infinite love of God, all our love to God must spring. This must ever be a great and certain truth, that we love him for no other reason than because he first loved us. Our love to him is the fair offspring of his love to us. Cold admiration, …

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“There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.”— Psalm 76:3

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“There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.”— Psalm 76:3 Our Redeemer’s glorious cry of “It is finished,” was the death-knell of all the adversaries of his people, the breaking of “the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.” Behold the hero of Golgotha using his cross as an anvil, and his woes as a hammer, dashing to shivers bundle after bundle of our sins, those poisoned “arrows of the bow;” trampling on every indictment, and destroying every accusation. What glorious blows the mighty Breaker gives …

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