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The right time to announce God's projects
I am the first one to take the lesson here. It is amazing how quick we are to tell people about what God has put in our hearts, or at least what we believe He has. Nehemiah was careful. He first assessed…
Created 11 days ago
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Celebration to God
My mind went all over while reading this passage. It is interesting how Hezekiah, understanding the guilty of Israel, set his heart straight as a good leader to bring people back to the service of their…
Created 17 days ago
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Subordination and Commitment
I'm always amazed by King David's subordination and commitment. Subordination as he was the one with the idea of building God a temple. However, due to his history of war, God said his son would do it.…
Created 27 days ago
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The Powerful Word of God
I'm always amazed how much powerful the word of God is in this context. Judah is marked by a wicked sequence of evil kings and now, by finding the Book of the Covenant, the word of God, Josiah's heart…
Created about 1 month ago
2 Kings 23:1 (ESV), 2 Kings 23:2 (ESV), 2 Kings 23:3 (ESV), 2 Kings 23:25 (ESV)
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Moving God's Hands? Don't think so...
I have heard many people using these verses to defend that our prayers can actually move God's hands. It is to me unacceptable that something created can actually do something to the Creator. It sounds…
Created about 1 month ago
2 Kings 20:1 (ESV), 2 Kings 20:2 (ESV), 2 Kings 20:3 (ESV), 2 Kings 20:4 (ESV), 2 Kings 20:5 (ESV), 2 Kings 20:6 (ESV), 2 Kings 20:7 (ESV)
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Decision on whom to serve
It is amazing how relevant this passage still is. Many people today sympathize with the Gospel and sometimes even call themselves Christians. However, they keep on seeving the other god or gods. There…
Created about 1 month ago
1 Kings 18:21 (ESV), 1 Kings 18:29 (ESV), 1 Kings 18:39 (ESV)
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1 Kings 11:1-11
1 Kings 11:1-11 (ESV)
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,Created about 1 month ago
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What can free us from sin?
I am always amazed by this text, and how clear it is, that anything from us can really keep us from sinning. Look at Salomom. The wisest man in the Earth. Someone who actually concluded in his proverbs…
Created about 1 month ago
1 Kings 11:1 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:2 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:3 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:4 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:5 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:6 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:7 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:8 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:9 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:10 (ESV), 1 Kings 11:11 (ESV)
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Earned a Badge — Created 500 Highlights
2012-04-14
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2 Samuel 24:15-16
2 Samuel 24:15-16 (ESV)
So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.Created about 1 month ago
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God does repent, but not like humans
Every time I come to a biblical text wich says that God repented of something, my mind goes crazy as I can not accept that God would be a victim of such a feeling as we are. Why not? Well, repentance…
Created about 1 month ago
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Covenantal God
Yes, I'm always stopping on those texts where I see this aspect of God's nature. He is a Covenantal God here too. Can it be worse than what Israel did at that point in time? I mean, you consciously say:…
Created 2 months ago
1 Samuel 12:19 (ESV), 1 Samuel 12:20 (ESV), 1 Samuel 12:21 (ESV), 1 Samuel 12:22 (ESV), 1 Samuel 12:23 (ESV), 1 Samuel 12:24 (ESV), 1 Samuel 12:25 (ESV)
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Lord and his ways
I got amazed once more by reading this text and thinking about how Lord choose the people he wants to use in His kingdom. Saul was a tall man. Saul was strong and probably very notable among the people.…
Created 2 months ago
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Obvious, but not godly
Leaders of God's people must know that there is no room for self management. Everything God puts in our hands must be carefully and humbly conducted. This scenario shows a case where the leaders were…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Prayers answered! Not always good...
It devasted me when I tried to picture this text. God is in heaven, listenning to prayers of Israel. It gets so loud that God decides to rescue them. God calls Moses and with His mighty hand get them…
Created 3 months ago
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Is the Lord's hands shortned?
I just loved this replu from God. Moses found impossoble to bring meat to everyone in that desert. God somehow reminds Moses of His power, what he saw back there in Egypt. To me, it is something like:…
Created 3 months ago
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The Passover and The Lord's Supper
The passover is intrinsically linked to the Lord's supper. Both celebrate the substitution of the church by the lamb of God. There are various debates on which conditions one might be to participate…
Created 4 months ago
Numbers 9:1 (ESV), Numbers 9:2 (ESV), Numbers 9:3 (ESV), Numbers 9:4 (ESV), Numbers 9:5 (ESV), Numbers 9:6 (ESV), Numbers 9:7 (ESV), Numbers 9:8 (ESV), Numbers 9:9 (ESV), Numbers 9:10 (ESV), Numbers 9:11 (ESV), Numbers 9:12 (ESV), Numbers 9:13 (ESV), Numbers 9:14 (ESV)
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Be where God wants to
Imagine you are in a desert. Imagine you are there because it is the way to get to your final destination which is a wonderful place. I believe most of us would do our best to take that trip through the…
Created 4 months ago
Exodus 40:34 (ESV), Exodus 40:35 (ESV), Exodus 40:36 (ESV), Exodus 40:37 (ESV), Exodus 40:38 (ESV)
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Exodus 34:6-9
Exodus 34:6-9 (ESV)
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,Created 4 months ago
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Distinguished from other people
What a great chapter! God was so mad at Israel that sent them away from His presence. It is interesting to note that His anger is because of the sin and He clearly explains that it is actually safer…
Created 4 months ago
Exodus 33:12 (ESV), Exodus 33:13 (ESV), Exodus 33:14 (ESV), Exodus 33:15 (ESV), Exodus 33:16 (ESV)
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Census
This text brought me to the one when David did the census and God was not pleased. It is not clear in the text why God was upset. It is also interesting that Kings and Chronicles give an aparent difference…
Created 4 months ago
Exodus 30:12 (ESV), Exodus 30:13 (ESV), Exodus 30:14 (ESV), Exodus 30:15 (ESV), Exodus 30:16 (ESV)
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God wants to be with us
God is the one to anticipate and set the scene and prepare a place where people could practice their devotion and be with God. How incredible ia to know that our God is pleased to have a relationship…
Created 4 months ago
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God, People, Law and Blood
The two parts, God an the people entered in covenant based on the Law and with severity of blood. The Law is read so that the people understand the details on where to be obedient. The people responded…
Created 4 months ago
Exodus 24:3 (ESV), Exodus 24:4 (ESV), Exodus 24:5 (ESV), Exodus 24:6 (ESV), Exodus 24:7 (ESV), Exodus 24:8 (ESV)
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Sinai Covenant
God once more comes to His people to make a pact with them. What I find peculiar here are the terms of God, the ones He is entitled to. Of course, different than a human's pact, God is the one who gives…
Created 4 months ago
Exodus 19:3 (ESV), Exodus 19:4 (ESV), Exodus 19:5 (ESV), Exodus 19:6 (ESV)
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Lord's presence and our faith
It is amazing how similar we are to Israel. It is so interesting that the concept and definition of faith is based on the fact that you do not need to see, touch, taste or hear something to believe on…
Created 4 months ago
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God's way over human's will done lovingly free and just
I was thinking while reading this text that it is just marvelous the way God drives us towards His protecting and loving will so smoothly. Knowing the people of Israel, God anticipates and keep them…
Created 4 months ago
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God reveals Himself to Egypt and Israel
I have written before as a note in other text that God wanted to reveal more precisely who He was to Egypt by showing His power. To Israel He already said that now He reveals Himself more personally…
Created 4 months ago
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God makes distinction
The last and final plague was a horrific sign by God's hands. As a human, it is so hard to imagine all these children being gone just like that. It is a terrible picture when I think about the parents…
Created 4 months ago
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Exodus 9:20-21
Exodus 9:20-21 (ESV)
Then whoever feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses,Created 4 months ago
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Exodus 9:13-17
Exodus 9:13-17 (ESV)
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.Created 4 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights
2012-01-05
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Genesis 6:22
Genesis 6:22 (ESV)
Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-02
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2011-12-28
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-12-28
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-12-25
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-12-20
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1 Peter 4:10
1 Peter 4:10 (ESV)
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:Created 6 months ago
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Acts 9:31
Acts 9:31 (ESV)
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.Created 7 months ago
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Matthew 24:22
Matthew 24:22 (ESV)
And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.Created 7 months ago
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Luke 16:31
Luke 16:31 (ESV)
He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.'"Created 7 months ago
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Luke 8:1-3
Luke 8:1-3 (ESV)
Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,Created 8 months ago
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Matthew 13:37-43
Matthew 13:37-43 (ESV)
He answered, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.Created 8 months ago
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Matthew 11:24
Matthew 11:24 (ESV)
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."Created 8 months ago
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Malachi 3:13
Malachi 3:13 (ESV)
"Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. But you say, 'How have we spoken against you?'Created 8 months ago
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Malachi 3:14
Malachi 3:14 (ESV)
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?Created 8 months ago
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Malachi 3:15
Malachi 3:15 (ESV)
And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.'"Created 8 months ago
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Malachi 3:16
Malachi 3:16 (ESV)
Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name.Created 8 months ago
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Malachi 3:17
Malachi 3:17 (ESV)
"They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.Created 8 months ago
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Malachi 3:18
Malachi 3:18 (ESV)
Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.Created 8 months ago
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Nehemiah 12:47
Nehemiah 12:47 (ESV)
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.Created 8 months ago
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Nehemiah 13:19
Nehemiah 13:19 (ESV)
As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.Created 8 months ago
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Nehemiah 12:47
Nehemiah 12:47 (ESV)
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.Created 8 months ago
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Nehemiah 5:19
Nehemiah 5:19 (ESV)
Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.Created 8 months ago
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Ezra 9:15
Ezra 9:15 (ESV)
O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."Created 8 months ago
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Ezra 10:4
Ezra 10:4 (ESV)
Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it."Created 8 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Bookmarks
2011-07-26
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-02-17
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-02-17
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-01-18
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-12
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