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Growing and becoming mighty
I love this thought. And I am making it my prayer: that the word of the Lord is growing (continually, unceasingly) and becoming mighty in me and through me. I want the word of the Lord to carry more…
Created 29 days ago
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Acts 19:20
Acts 19:20 (WEB)
So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.Created 29 days ago
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Psalm 32:8
Psalm 32:8 (WEB)
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.Created 30 days ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2012-04-23
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-03-08
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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A Garden With a New Tomb
In the place he was crucified there was a garden. And in that garden, there was a new tomb in which no man had ever been laid. It all began in a garden. It was all completed in a garden, the place where…
Created 5 months ago
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Believe in God, believe also in Me
It is a strong directive from Jesus. A command really. Don't let your heart be troubled. Just don't let it. Instead of a troubled heart, focus, exert your energy, in believing. Believing in God. Explore…
Created 5 months ago
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Just a little rudder
My prayer today is that it would take Jesus less and less effort to direct me in all my life. I pray that as my life grows continually, that my responsiveness to the Lord grows equally and moreso. Lord…
Created 6 months ago
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Witnesses - a bigger scope
I used to think that being Christ's witnesses meant leading others to Christ. It does mean this...but it means much more. It is not just about preaching the gospel and seeing people respond, being born…
Created 6 months ago
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This is why we don't get discouraged...
I love the simplicity of this phrase! Winning the battle over discouragement is not that difficult when you realize what it is. Discouragement is a major weapon in the arsenal of the enemy. It is for…
Created 7 months ago
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Jesus' death, Jesus' life
If we don't carry Jesus' death in our bodies, then Jesus' life cannot be seen.
Created 7 months ago
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Necessary process
I read this and I think of the failure of the disciples --- they all abandoned Christ at the point before his death. It was so disappointing the first time I read it, and I thought to myself, I wouldn't…
Created 7 months ago
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Results in time
And many of the Jewish priests were converted at this time too. This is the result of Peter and John's strong and bold testimony/witness which we read in Acts 4. They were questioned by the council,…
Created 8 months ago
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Can't stop telling
This is direct fulfillment of Jesus' promise/command that they would be witnesses after the Holy Spirit had fallen on them. The impetus of the Holy Spirit, the evidence of him, is that we can't stop telling,…
Created 8 months ago
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Those who accepted
Recently, in Growth Track class, we had a discussion about baptism: do we have the choice to be or not to be baptized by full immersion? What if we were baptized as babies (I myself was too)? I believe…
Created 8 months ago
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he opened their minds to understand the scriptures
He opened their mind to understand the scriptures. More specifically, that the scriptures were about himself. Lord, open my mind and grant me such grace.
Created 8 months ago
Nehemiah 5:1 (CEB), Nehemiah 6:1 (CEB), Psalms 146:1 (CEB), Luke 24:1 (CEB)
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Let's rebuild
I love Nehemiah's courage and optimism...a great and necessary mix for rebuilding what once was great and glorious, but through neglect or drift, has fallen into disrepair. We need this courage and optimism…
Created 8 months ago
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They did not know that it was Jesus
Isn't this often the case in our own lives? We go through stuff, things do not turn out like we had hoped, anticipated, planned for. And we, like the disciples find ourselves at the end of a long night…
Created 10 months ago
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Take away the stone
Jesus, with unshakeable confidence in his being heard by the Father, commands that the stone be removed out of the way. I feel stones moving out of my way as I read the word and spend time with the Father.…
Created 10 months ago
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God's categories
What we esteem and what God esteems is often so far apart. This chapter's opening statement calls to mind some of man's greatest accomplishments...glorious buildings known to generations of people. The…
Created 10 months ago
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One sacrifice for all time
I praise the Lord that he has offered up, once for all time, the perfect sacrifice. Unlike the priests of the old covenant, who offered daily sacrifices for their sins, and for the sins of their people,…
Created 11 months ago
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prepared fish
The Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. God chose Jonah. Jonah was quite a piece of work for God. We find the seasoned prophet doing the opposite of what God had asked him to do. It would…
Created 11 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-05-04
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With God's Help
I love how this verse says, "...and so when God helped the Levites who carried the ark... " It is clear that God is so ready to help us do what we are supposed to do. There is a divine synchronicity…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-04-24
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2 Corinthians 13:4
2 Corinthians 13:4 (NKJV)
For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.Created about 1 year ago
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By the power of God
Here is the secret that is spoken through the New Testament...not really a secret at all. We do not live by our power or by our best concerted efforts. True life is by the power of God, by the life of…
Created about 1 year ago
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John 6:51
John 6:51 (NKJV)
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.Created about 1 year ago
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1 Corinthians 15:45
1 Corinthians 15:45 (NKJV)
And so it is written, The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-04-02
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Applause
I applaud Abraham; I applaud Sarah. But really, I applaud you Lord, because you are the one who did it. The entire plan of redemption for the human race came from those whose faith at one time was low,…
Created about 1 year ago
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because he is faithful
Faith is knowing the One who is full of faith. To me that is what faithful means. I believe in Jesus, and I know that he is full of faith. I know that I can trust him. I know that I can place all of my…
Created about 1 year ago
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We reason about what we don't have
I am convicted as I read the Gospel this morning. Jesus adjusted his disciples because they began to reason based on what they didn't have, based on what they lacked. It is a natural human response to…
Created over 1 year ago
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Why that guy?
I think Jesus actually looked for that guy. It wasn't happenstance or chance. Jesus was entirely intentional, and looked for the guy who would never have his need met in the way he was waiting for it…
Created over 1 year ago
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By faith he left Egypt
Now Moses fled from Egypt for his life. That can hardly be called faith! But I think what the writer of Hebrews is getting at is something deeper. Moses left the trappings of Egypt, and admittedly, up…
Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-02-09
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Hebrews 11:11
Hebrews 11:11 (NKJV)
By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-01-16
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-04
