Category: believers
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To Live Differently
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau I came across Michelle Lesley’s blog while searching for something else, something utterly and entirely different. I don’t know if I could count it as an accident. I just know that I can count this as a discovery in my book, and […]
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Finding a Balance of Favor with God and Man
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. – Galatians 1:10 (NASB) Photo by Caleb Oquendo from Pexels Do we find favor? Or, vice versa, does favor find us? The […]
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Shame Shimei
II Samuel 16:5-8 NKJV Now when King David came to Bahurim, there was a man from the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei the son of Gera, coming from there. He came out, cursing continuously as he came. And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King […]
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God is Available
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he […]
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Defiled from the Inside Out
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. – Mark 7:20 Imagine how it would be if everyone could what was inside of us. They could see your thoughts. Every one of your thoughts would play out like a movie scene before every person who came in contact with […]
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Pastors and Political Involvement
For Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her. For John had been telling Herod, ‘It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.’ And Herodias had a grudge against him, and wanted […]
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Saved But Suffering
“Accept God’s will in every situation.” – Andrew Murray Things happen. If you read it on a bumper sticker, you would probably get another version of what happens. We just have to come to grips with the reality and fact of the matter. Things just happen. Things happen that are out of our control. Things […]
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TEAM Up for God
They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. – Acts 1:14 (NIV) The church needs to team up. The body of Christ needs to join together. As the verse says, the disciples of the Lord all joined together. When people team up, […]
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Do Good for God
6 With what shall I come before the LORD and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the […]
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Called Out to be the Church
Ecclesia = the “called-out ones” We come to understand that the church is beyond a building. it is not a place but the people of God. We, as believers in the risen Savior, make up the church. The church is called “the Body of Christ” as well as the “Bride of Christ.” The believers make […]
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