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Note to self re the Gospels
Matthew- to Jews- Jesus as King Mark- to Romans- Jesus as Servant Luke- to Greeks- Jesus as man John- Everyone- Jesus as God
Created 16 days ago
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Take a stand
Take a stand against evildoers... RUSH LIMBAUGH In Psalm 94:3,4,16 David said: "How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked be jubilant? They pour out arrogant words; all evildoers are…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Obedience
"If you love me you will obey what I command." Biblical obedience: Love + Trust + Action God wants us to see obedience to Him as a relationship of love. And out of love, comes trust. If you trust what…
Created 4 months ago
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Oh how timely!
NOTE TO SELF & my online devotional community This Rick Warren devotional is oh so very timely. Right now my income has been reduced to more than 130% below the poverty level and health issues are mountainously…
Created 4 months ago
Malachi 3:10 (NIV84), 2 Corinthians 4:8 (NIV84), 2 Corinthians 4:9 (NIV84)
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The Lord will provide
Abraham looked up and he saw a lamb caught in the thicket... God provides what we need when we need it.
Created 4 months ago
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God is always on time
God always intervenes at the right time and in the right way to vindicate His people and His own character.
Created 4 months ago
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True faith
Faith trusts God to provide even when we cannot see how He will provide. True faith holds nothing back from God.
Created 4 months ago
Genesis 22:7 (NIV84), Genesis 22:8 (NIV84), Genesis 22:9 (NIV84), Genesis 22:10 (NIV84)
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Obedience without delay
Full and quick obedience is the proper response to God's clear direction.
Created 4 months ago
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God tests us
God tests us to prove our faith, but He never temps us to do evil.
Created 4 months ago
Genesis 22:1 (NIV84), Genesis 22:2 (NIV84), James 1:13 (NIV84)
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...like a tree replanted in Eden
I love how the Message Bible says it: 1. How well God must like you- you don't hangout at Sin Saloon, you don't slink along Dead-End Road, you don't go to Smart-Mouth College. 2. Instead you thrill to…
Created 5 months ago
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Correction requested
The study verse Psalm 31:39 DOES NOT EXIST. Please correct this typographical error. Thank you. Now I did read Ps. 31 and Ps. 39 and I do see requests for blessings (protection & rescue). While Ps. 39…
Created 5 months ago
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Imputed righteousness
Imputed righteousness--Faith is credited as righteousness. God pardons, accepts, and declares a sinner to be just (made right) based on the righteousness of Jesus, and what He did on the cross.
Created 5 months ago
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Question God!
Our questions can either demonstrate our doubt or demonstrate our faith. God answers every question that we truly need an answer to.
Created 5 months ago
Genesis 15:2 (NIV84), Genesis 15:3 (NIV84), Genesis 15:4 (NIV84), Genesis 15:5 (NIV84), Deuteronomy 29:29 (NIV84)
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Obedience
Obedience to God brings blessings to both us and those around us. Help me dear Lord to immediately obey as Abram did (Gen. 12:4).
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-13
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what boldness! what faith!
NOTE TO SELF re Esther 4:16 ...Esther said she is going to the King even if it means her life. If I perish, I perish, she said. If you don't know what you are willing to die for, you are not living--just…
Created 5 months ago
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Lost and desperately seeking...
Lost and desperately seeking our omnipotent God...
Created 5 months ago
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Ratchet-jaw continues
The definition of ratchet-jaw is one who talks incessantly in the wrong direction. A synonym is motor-mouth. That's what we have here as we complete the 20th of 37 chapters of same, until God comes…
Created 5 months ago
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great goals Great sacrifice
Thank you for this devotional/ I love it as I look at my main goal: To be a loving, faithful, obedient servant of the Lord and do as commanded to help grow the Kingdom of God while I live this short…
Created 5 months ago
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Excitedly waiting...
I'm already in 3 small groups yet I am excitedly waiting for January 29 for 40 days in the Word-- for even greater spiritual growth.
Created 5 months ago
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Rachet jaw continues
Without comforting or emphatic words...
Created 5 months ago
Job 15:1 (NIV84), Job 15:2 (NIV84), Job 15:3 (NIV84), Job 15:4 (NIV84), Job 15:5 (NIV84), Job 15:6 (NIV84)
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Note to journal re patience & persistence
God's timing is perfect, mine is not. Help me dear Lord to be patient and persistent, remembering that a God-given vision will always be fulfilled. Father help me to always keep in mind that nothing great…
Created 5 months ago
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Confusion/ Frustration=works of the flesh
Even though God declared Job as blameless and upright, here Job is thoroughly confused and frustrated. He knows he was undeserving of the punishment being inflicted on him, an innocent man. He talks at…
Created 5 months ago
Job 10:13 (NIV84), Job 10:14 (NIV84), Job 10:15 (NIV84), Job 10:16 (NIV84)
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Genesis 11:4-8
Genesis 11:4-8 (KJV)
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.Created 5 months ago
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I continue to pray
Heavenly Father increase my faith that I submit ALL areas of my life that I may be more faithful and obedient to you. I love and wish to do your Will. Father I pray for Laborers- Luke 10:2 Opportunity-…
Created 5 months ago
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And the waters covered the earth for 150 days
Genesis 7:24 (KJV)
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.Created 5 months ago
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Genesis 3:22-24
Genesis 3:22-24 (KJV)
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:Created 5 months ago
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God always keeps His promises
Abraham exemplifies great faith. I pray that God will increase my faith such that I trust Him with EVERY aspect of my life while continuing (with the help of the Holy Spirit) to live a faithful and obedient…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2012-01-01
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2012-01-01
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Genesis 39:8-9 (NLT)
But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household.Created 5 months ago
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Genesis 24:3
Genesis 24:3 (ASV)
And I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-12-31
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1 John 5:13-14
1 John 5:13-14 (NLT)
I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.Created 5 months ago
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1 John 5:3
1 John 5:3 (NLT)
Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.Created 5 months ago
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1 John 4:16-21
1 John 4:16-21 (NLT)
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.Created 5 months ago
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2 Peter 3:9
2 Peter 3:9 (NLT)
The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.Created 5 months ago
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1 Peter 5:7-9
1 Peter 5:7-9 (NLT)
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.Created 5 months ago
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James 4:4
James 4:4 (NLT)
You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.Created 5 months ago
Labels: world's friend or god's enemy
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Hebrews 10:26-29
Hebrews 10:26-29 (NLT)
Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-12-30
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Hebrews 10:10
Hebrews 10:10 (NLT)
For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.Created 5 months ago