Category: Relationship
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Praise Is The Water My Enemies Drown In
God inhabits the praises of His people. In Exodus 17, Israel is going to fight Amalek and his people. Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of a hill. As long as Moses held his hands up, the Israelites won. But Moses grew weary so Aaron and Hur held his arms up for…
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A Shortcut is Not Always Best
Exodus 13:17 (NLT) When Pharoah finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promised Land. God said, “If the people are faced with a battle, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” So…
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Be Stong And Courageous
From The YouVersion Bible devotional 7/26/24 When Paul wrote his first letter to the Corinthian church, he was writing to believers experiencing intense division. Power and politics within the church community were causing Christians to stray from Jesus’ teachings and compete with each other. And because of this, the poor were suffering, people were confused…
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Seeing Vs Beholding
We see things all day long. We even see when we dream. We say, “I see” when trying to convey that we understand. What then, is beholding? As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet…
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I Love You
There are a great many topics in the Bible that are difficult to talk about, BUT the LOVE OF GOD is not one of them. Love is the number one topic of the Bible. There are over 700 places where love is mentioned in the Bible. An entire chapter is dedicated to the subject in…
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Magnify the LORD
What does it mean to MAGNIFY the Lord? The easy answer is to put a spotlight on Him. To exalt and champion Him. In what ways do we do that? Yes, we exalt Him in our worship, but what other ways can we magnify Him? What does it look like to magnify Him with our…
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What I Don’t Want To Do
Romans 7:15-19 says, “I don’t understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it…
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Facebook Love
Facebook Love Like, Love, Care, Laugh, Wow, Sad, Angry. These are the “emotions” that you can “click” on to respond to a Facebook post. So many times I click on “Love” because I really like the post’s sentiment. But do I really LOVE it? Mark 12:30 says “Love the Lord your God with all your heart,…
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Calvary’s Enough
Calvary’s Enough Calvary, Golgotha, the hill where Christ was crucified, is enough to erase all sins before, current, and future. Let that sink in. Before Jesus died there were hundreds of laws the people had to follow to obtain satisfaction for their sins between the Day of Atonement. God established 10 laws and explained them…
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Hi-Jack God’s Timing
Don’t Hijack God’s Timing How often have I jumped the gun on God’s timing? More than I would care to count. I see what is coming, or I want something to happen so I jump ahead of God. It’s as if I’m telling God, “I got this one, I don’t need you this time”. It…