Month: November 2016
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Seasons of Life
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 MSG1 There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:2 A right time for birth and another for death, A right time to plant and another to reap,3 A right time to kill and another to heal, A right time to destroy and another to construct,4 A…
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Piece of Peace
Philippians 4: (MSG)7 Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life. Matthew 8: (MSG)23 Then he got in the boat, his disciples with him.24 The next thing they knew,…
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The Battle, It’s Spiritual, not Political
1 Samuel 17: (MSG)10 I challenge the troops of Israel this day. Give me a man. Let us fight it out together!”11 When Saul and his troops heard the Philistine’s challenge, they were terrified and lost all hope. 2 Corinthians 10: (MSG)1 And now a personal but most urgent matter; I write in the gentle…
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First, Fight The Battle
Preface: I have just posted “Desire of Contentment”. I was going to watch some television, but as I sat down this following thought came to my mind. I sat on my sofa and I could begin to hear it going through my mind like I had read it before. I am sure I haven’t…
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Contentment Learned
11 Not that I peak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.(KJV)11 Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances.(MSG)11 I am not saying this because I am in need—for whatever circumstance…
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“Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
Philippians 2:3-4 NKJV Source: “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.”
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A Nation Founding Wanting
Daniel 5:25-28 MSG25 and this is what is written: MENE, TEQEL, and PERES.26 This is what the words mean: “Mene: God has numbered the days of your rule and they don’t add up.27 “Teqel: You have been weighed on the scales and you don’t weigh much.28 “Peres: Your kingdom has been divided up and handed…
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A Nation Born In Rebellion pt. 2
Ephesians 6:12 – Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world. 13 That is why you need to put on God’s full armor. Then on the day of evil you will be…