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Ex. 4:2-5 Learning to Let Go As Moses p...
Ex. 4:2-5 Learning to Let Go As Moses pushes back on God's instruction, God simply asks, "What is that in your hand…?" "A staff…" It was nothing special. Though useful to a shepherd, it was simply…
Created 4 months ago
Exodus 4:2 (NIV), Exodus 4:3 (NIV), Exodus 4:4 (NIV), Exodus 4:5 (NIV)
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Gen. 26:17-18 :: ReDigging Wells The en...
Gen. 26:17-18 :: ReDigging Wells The enemy always desires to fill in the "wells" with dirt (flesh)... ...we are to "reopen" that which our father's (those before us) labored to dig. But over time has…
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Gen. 25:33 :: Skewed Perspective (Misgu...
Gen. 25:33 :: Skewed Perspective (Misguided) hunger and passions always distor our eternal perspective. http://glo.to/l?1=01025033
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Gen. 25:28 :: Conditional Love NLT rend...
Gen. 25:28 :: Conditional Love NLT renders 25:18, "Isaac LOVED Esau BECAUSE he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah LOVED Jacob." Isaac loved Jacob "because" he was liked wild…
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Gen. 21:8-12 :: The Flesh & Spirit Strug...
Gen. 21:8-12 :: The Flesh & Spirit Struggle God had promised a son to Abraham. After a time of no son, Sarah proposed the idea of Abraham have a child through Hagar. The book of Galatians likens Hagar…
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Genesis 21:8 (NIV), Genesis 21:9 (NIV), Genesis 21:10 (NIV), Genesis 21:11 (NIV), Genesis 21:12 (NIV)
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Gen. 22:2 :: Love The first time "love"...
Gen. 22:2 :: Love The first time "love" is mentioned in Scripture is here in reference to Abraha's "only son." The son of "promise." There's a striking resemblence to the first time the Gospel writer…
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Gen. 18:9-15) :: Sarah & Mary The first...
Gen. 18:9-15) :: Sarah & Mary The first child of promise came through an old "worn-out women" (v.12) and the second child of promise came through a young virgin.. In both circumstances the angel said,…
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Gen. 18:1-8 :: Abraham Ran Three times ...
Gen. 18:1-8 :: Abraham Ran Three times the text says Abraham "ran" or "hurried" v.2, 6, 7 and that he told Sarah to "hurry" v.6 and the servant "quickly" prepared the calf v.7. I love the emphasis in…
Created 4 months ago
Genesis 18:1 (NIV), Genesis 18:2 (NIV), Genesis 18:3 (NIV), Genesis 18:4 (NIV), Genesis 18:5 (NIV), Genesis 18:6 (NIV), Genesis 18:7 (NIV), Genesis 18:8 (NIV)
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Isaac carried the very wood on his shoul...
Isaac carried the very wood on his shoulders that He would be fastened to when it came time for sacrifice. Even so, Jesus carried the wood/cross on his shoulders - the very wood he would be fastened to…
Created 5 months ago
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The first time "love" is mentioned in Sc...
The first time "love" is mentioned in Scripture is here in reference to Abraha's "only son." The son of "promise." There's a striking resemblence to the first time the Gospel writer uses the word "love."…
Created 5 months ago
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Gen 16:7-14 :: El-Roi Hagar is out in t...
Gen 16:7-14 :: El-Roi Hagar is out in the wilderness. Alone and with child. There is tension between Sari and Abram. There is contemp between Sari and Hagar. Scripture tells us that Sari dealt "harshly"…
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Gen. 16:5 Sari says to Abram, "This is ...
Gen. 16:5 Sari says to Abram, "This is all your fault" (NLT). Hagar's pregnancy was the result of dependence in the "flesh" (human strength), rather than the "spirit" (God's initiative and strength).…
Created 5 months ago
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Gen 16:5-6 :: Reflections on Hagar & Abr...
Gen 16:5-6 :: Reflections on Hagar & Abram… One would assume that Abram would have communicated to Sari by this time that they were going to have a child. Based on her response in Genesis 18 it’s not…
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James
James 1:1 (NLT)
This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings!Created 5 months ago
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Shema
Deuteronomy 6:3-15 (TNIV)
Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.Created 5 months ago
Labels: memorize
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-01-08
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2012-01-08
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In life there are many paths, doors and ...
In life there are many paths, doors and opportunities/decisions... Often the decisions are challenged during tough times. In these seasons doubt can easily slip in.... However, one simple reality can…
Created 5 months ago
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This is an interesting piece of instruct...
This is an interesting piece of instruction... "walk through the land in every direction, for I am giving it to you." I wonder what went through Abram's mind as he did this... He actually move there...…
Created 5 months ago
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Give Your love of justice to the king NL...
Give Your love of justice to the king NLT. What a powerful prayer for political leaders near and far. Much of Psalm 72 perfect passage for prayer and reflection in regards to those entrusted to lead.…
Created 5 months ago
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What are the "buts" in my life that caus...
What are the "buts" in my life that cause a redirection of events on the earth around me (near and far)...?
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-07
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Noah did "everything" as God had command...
Noah did "everything" as God had commanded... He did what he was to do - that which he could do... But "God shut the door"... There are times when we are obedient with what we can do and simply trust…
Created 5 months ago
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Note the stark contrast between Cain's o...
Note the stark contrast between Cain's offspring (of the flesh) compared to Seth's (representing the Spirit)... One's resulted in murder and boasting… The other in people beginning to call on God...…
Created 5 months ago
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Anytime we live/dwell/wander outside of ...
Anytime we live/dwell/wander outside of God's presence - we live/dwell/wander in the land of Nod (which literally means "wander"). Where there is no presence (which always brings 'vision' Pro. 29:18),…
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Are we too responsible for elements of i...
Are we too responsible for elements of injustice that we support, even those we are unaware of...? Do we have a responsibility to fellow humanity to become informed...? Does their blood cry out from…
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Interesting spiritual principle at work ...
Interesting spiritual principle at work here: in the "refusing" to do that which is right (which is always a matter deeper than mere actions alone, but a disposition of the heart) - a doorway is opened.…
Created 5 months ago
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Abram brought an offering before God... ...
Abram brought an offering before God... The vultures came down and tried to take it... Abram chased them away... Are there things we bring to God - moments of devotion, reflection, offering... that the…
Created 5 months ago
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Eve makes a great observation and declar...
Eve makes a great observation and declaration. "with the Lord's help I have..." the partnership of human and divine. So often we take credit for that which we "bring forth" falling to recognize and demonstrate…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2012-01-07
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There is much packed in this verse regar...
There is much packed in this verse regarding what the LORD spoke to Abram concerning His covenant - the Promise. But, it is also worth noting, how the LORD chose to speak. God could have simply said,…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2012-01-04
Jerrell Jobe
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