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Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2012-05-21
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2012-05-14
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Fear
Fear is a dark shadow that envelops us and ultimately imprisons us within ourselves. Everyone has been a prisoner of fear of one time or another, fear of rejection, misunderstanding, uncertainty, sickness,…
Created 4 months ago
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Lust
Regard lust as a warning sign of danger ahead. When you notice that you are attracted to a person of the opposite sex or preoccupied with thoughts of him or her, your desires may lead you to sin. Ask…
Created 4 months ago
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Praise
To often we complain about our problems to anyone who will listen and we praise God only in private. Instead, we ought to complain privately and praise God publicly.
Created 4 months ago
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Life's Problems
Do life's problems always seem to go from bad to worse? God s the only one who can reverse this downward spiral. He can take our problems and turn them into glorious victories. The first and most important…
Created 4 months ago
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To fear the Lord is to recognize God's attributes:…
To fear the Lord is to recognize God's attributes: He is holy, almighty,righteous, pure, all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-wise. When we regard God correctly, we gain a clearer picture of ourselves:…
Created 4 months ago
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Guidance
When we allow God, our shepherd, to guide us, we have contentment. When we choose to sin and go our own way, however, we cannot blame God for the environment we create for ourselves. Our shepherd knows…
Created 4 months ago
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Advice
At the end of your life, it will be too late to ask for advice. When desire is fully activated, people don't want advice, they want satisfaction. The best time to learn the dangers and foolishness of…
Created 4 months ago
Proverbs 5:11 (NLT), Proverbs 5:12 (NLT), Proverbs 5:13 (NLT)
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Untitled Note
God's loving concern does not begin on the day we are born and conclude on the day we die. It reaches back to those days before we were born and reaches ahead along the unending path of eternity. Our…
Created 4 months ago
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Friends
Even friends can make you fall. It is difficult for people to accept the fact that friends and acquaintances may lure them to do wrong. Yong people who want to be accepted would never confront or criticize…
Created 4 months ago
Proverbs 4:13 (NLT), Proverbs 4:14 (NLT), Proverbs 4:15 (NLT), Proverbs 4:16 (NLT), Proverbs 4:17 (NLT)
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Guilt
Many Christians are plagued by guilt. They worry that they have committed a sin unknowingly, done something good with selfish intentions, failed to put their whole heart into a task, or neglected what…
Created 4 months ago
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Challenges
God doesn't promise to eliminate challenges; instead, he promises to give us strength to meet those challenges. If he gave us no rough roads to walk, no mountains to climb, and no battles to fight, we…
Created 4 months ago
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Untitled Note
Some people think that belief in God is a crutch for weak people who cannot make it on their own. God is indeed a shield to protect us when we are too weak to face certain trials by ourselves, but he…
Created 4 months ago
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Troubles
Do your troubles, like "deep waters," threaten to drown you? When you wish that God would quickly rescue you from your troubles, remember that he can either deliver you or be your support as you go through…
Created 4 months ago
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Untitled Note
If you want wisdom, you must decide to go after it. This will take resolve - a determination not to abandon the search once you begin, no matter how difficult the road may become. This is not a once-in-a-lifetime…
Created 5 months ago
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Protection
God's protection of his people is limitless and can take many forms: David characterized God's care with five military symbols. God is like (1) a rock that can't be moved by any who would harm us, (2)…
Created 5 months ago
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Protection
Just as we protect our eyes, so God will protect us. We must not conclude, however, that we have somehow missed God's protection if we experience troubles. God's protection has far greater purposes than…
Created 5 months ago
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Death
Many people fear death because they can neither control or understand it. As believers, we can be assured that God will not forget us when when we die. He will bring us to life again to live with him…
Created 5 months ago
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Secret to joy.
True joy is far deeper than happiness; we can feel joy in spite of our deepest troubles. Happiness is temporary because it is based on external circumstances, but joy is lasting because it is based on…
Created 5 months ago
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Untitled Note
By saying that he will not be shaken, David was talking about the unique sense of security felt by believers. God does not exempt believers from the day to day circumstances of life. Believers and unbelievers…
Created 5 months ago
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Speech
Words are powerful, and how we use them reflects on your relationship with God. Perhaps nothing so identifies Christians as their ability to control their speech, speaking the truth, refusing to slander,…
Created 5 months ago
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Untitled Note
No one but God is perfect. All of us stand guilty before him and need his forgiveness. No matter how well we perform or how much we achieve compared to others, none of us can boast of his or her goodness…
Created 5 months ago
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Impatience
David frequently claimed that God was slow to act on his behalf. We often feel the same impatience. It seems that evil and suffering go unchecked, and we wonder when God is going to stop them. David affirmed…
Created 5 months ago
Psalm 13:1 (NIV), Psalm 13:2 (NIV), Psalm 13:3 (NIV), Psalm 13:4 (NIV), Psalm 13:5 (NIV)
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Discipline
Discipline means to teach and to train. Discipline sounds negative to many people because some disciplinarians are not loving. God, however, is the source of all love.. He doesn't punish us because he…
Created 5 months ago
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Tests
God does not shields believers from difficult circumstances, but he examines or test both the righteous and the wicked. For some, God's tests become a refining fire, while for others they become an incinerator…
Created 5 months ago
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Greed
Many people give God their leftovers. If they can afford to donate anything after the bills are paid, they do so. These people may be sincere and contribute willingly, but they are not obeying what God…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-04
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2012-01-01
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-12-31
Michael Manger
- cleanone
- United States
