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Jesus Grew
If Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, then why should I feel as though these things should come to me overnight? Greater is He who is in me. I need to be patient, trust in His presence and strength,…
Created 1 day ago
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Determination
Not giving my best is just as bad as accepting defeat and giving in.
Created 1 day ago
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Do Your Best
Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV)
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.Created 1 day ago
Labels: determination diligence focus persistence
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Work now, play later
Before I can gather my crop, before I can say, "God, it took me a while. But I've completed what you assigned me." I have to do what He has called for me to do. In trying to work smarter rather than…
Created 2 days ago
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First; God
Colossians 1:15-17 (NIV)
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.Created 15 days ago
Labels: above all else creator father lord sovereign waymaker
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Plans for Hope and a Future
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.Created 15 days ago
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You've never sinned?
1 John 1:9-10 (NIV)
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.Created 15 days ago
Labels: christ forgive forgiven grace mercy repent sin sinning
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Don't doubt
John 20:27 (NIV)
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."Created about 1 month ago
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Blessings of Realization
So in my journey with God, lately I have been trying to read His Word specifically as a means to "reflect."I wanted to learn and say, "this is what God wants me to be like. And this is how I am, so this…
Created 4 months ago
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New Creature
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!Created 5 months ago
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Every Thought
2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.Created 6 months ago
Labels: anti sin temptation thoughts
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Nip it in the Bud
"but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."…
Created 6 months ago
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Why Keep Pushing On?
This is amazing. It's like God already told us in Jeremiah 29:11 that He knows "the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, but to give you hope and a future." Then He reminds…
Created 6 months ago
James 1:2 (NIV), James 1:3 (NIV), James 1:4 (NIV), James 1:5 (NIV), James 1:6 (NIV), James 1:7 (NIV), James 1:8 (NIV)
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The Beatitudes
Matthew 5:3-12 (KJV)
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Created 6 months ago
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Trials and Temptations
James 1:2-8 (NIV)
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,James 1:10 (NIV)
But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.Created 6 months ago
Labels: help persevere struugles temptation trials
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Looks and Adultery
Matthew 5:28 (NIV)
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.Created 6 months ago
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“The Offering of the Natural…First”
Galatians 4:22 (NIV):"For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman."Oswald Chambers explains what is later written in the chapter by saying,The natural…
Created 6 months ago
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WHAT & WHY
I now see even more why we should go to church: to get together with God's people to encourage and be encouraged, to strengthen and be strengthened. When we are in need, sometimes the LORD will work a…
Created 6 months ago
Hebrews 10:19 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:20 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:21 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:22 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:23 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:24 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:25 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:26 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:27 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:28 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:29 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:30 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:31 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:32 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:33 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:34 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:35 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:36 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:37 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:38 (NIV84), Hebrews 10:39 (NIV84)
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Why Keep Pushing?
Hebrews 10:36 (NIV84)
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.Created 6 months ago
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Good works
Philippians 1:6 (NIV84)
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.Created 6 months ago
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Power in Christ
John 14:30-31 (NIV84)
I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me,Created 6 months ago
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Guard Himself
Watch Yourself Gospel- Absolute truth Ex. "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel–which really is no gospel…
Created 7 months ago
Galatians 1:6 (NIV84), Galatians 1:7 (NIV84), Galatians 1:8 (NIV84), Galatians 1:9 (NIV84), Galatians 1:10 (NIV84)
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Be Careful
Galatians 1:6-10 (NIV84)
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel–Created 7 months ago
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Can't Make a Note
So this is the link to my tumblr which I use like YouVersion: http://oneextrastep.tumblr.com (http://oneextrastep.tumblr.com)
Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 7:1
1 Corinthians 7:1 (NIV84)
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 7:9
1 Corinthians 7:9 (NIV84)
But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:4
1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV84)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:5
1 Corinthians 13:5 (NIV84)
It is not rude, it is not self‑seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:6
1 Corinthians 13:6 (NIV84)
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:7
1 Corinthians 13:7 (NIV84)
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:8
1 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV84)
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:9
1 Corinthians 13:9 (NIV84)
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:10
1 Corinthians 13:10 (NIV84)
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:11
1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV84)
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 13:12
1 Corinthians 13:12 (NIV84)
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.Created 8 months ago
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Worry
Soo often do we sometimes worry that we will fall back into Satan's old traps that we were snared in. It's good to be careful to flee from sin, but being careful and fearful are two different things.…
Created 9 months ago
Deuteronomy 31:1 (NIV84), Isaiah 26:3 (NIV84), Isaiah 26:4 (NIV84), John 14:12 (NIV84), John 14:13 (NIV84), 1 Corinthians 10:1 (NIV84), Hebrews 4:15 (NIV84), 1 John 4:1 (NIV84)
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John 1
*Verses 1-5 really emphasize and answer these questions - who is the Creator? Who is He to us? Who is He for us? What did He create? *God created us to spread the news about Him, according to Hid calling…
Created 9 months ago
John 1:1 (NIV84), John 1:2 (NIV84), John 1:3 (NIV84), John 1:4 (NIV84)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-08-20
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Truth and Fellowship
God made us in His image. Before sin, we were clean, holy, yet beneath God, for "He was before us." But when man sinned, it conflicted the purity of every man to come. But God knew this, terefore to abolish…
Created 10 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-08-06
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Beautiful People
We eventually come to a time that we want a relationship with someone. Though she/he is gorgeous, popular, cool, everything that look good, ain't good. We must ask ourselves, "What and who are helping…
Created 11 months ago
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Job sized FAITH
Job 2:9-10 "Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from…
Created 12 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-05-18
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Come out clean
"Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law."-Romans 3:31 The law was supposed to keep us right with God. But just as in society, when you break a law, it goes…
Created about 1 year ago
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Struggles and Pain
1 Thessalonians 5:16-21: "Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Do not put out the Spirit's fire;do not treat prophecies…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2011-04-18
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Blessings
What do I do? -Run track -Speak -see -Talk -Hear -Taste -smell -Walk -Talk -feel -think -work -drive -rap -have hair -have good looks -am not too self-conscience -have friends, close ones -have family,…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-04-16
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-04-11
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What Really Happened
John 14:23: "Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." Basically, we realize at times that JESUS is our…
Created about 1 year ago
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Worry
Worry is, in truth, our forgetting or, sometimes, worse, doubt in the power of GOD. When we look at the situation rather than GOD, our tunnel vision sees the bad things in sight, so then we forget the…
Created about 1 year ago
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The First Few Relationships
Everybody has a relationship with GOD. GOD created the earth and everything in it, yet some don't believe that. But, they still were created by Someone greater. That is the first relationship we encounter…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-04-04
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Proceeding with the NEW
In striving to live the holy life that GOD wants us to leave, we will encounter times that challenge us to keep up with what we started. But, we must believe that GOD will be faithful to HIS Word and,…
Created about 1 year ago
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Quitting Bad Habits
Sometimes when tempted, we start to think, GOD is testing us. There is se truth in that, GOD, Holiest of all Holy, will let us slip every now and them, for the purpose of getting us to see just where…
Created about 1 year ago
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FAITH! PATIENCE and worry?
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-03-30
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The Cure from destruction
Colossians 3:5 says to "Put to death sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry." This means yes, stop doing them, but alone, it's soooooo hard to do. By submitting…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2011-03-28
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-03-26
