Topic: Morning Mist Bible in a Year: Hosea 5–8 Revelation 2 I have swept away your offences. . . like the morning mist. Isaiah 44:9–11, 21–23 One morning I visited a pond near my house. I sat on an overturned boat, thinking and watching a gentle west wind chase a layer of mist across the water’s surface. Wisps of fog …
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Topic:JESUS’ BLOOD SPEAKS BETTER THINGS Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. Today, forensic science tells us that blood has a voice. DNA can be extracted from just one small drop of the murderer’s blood and the results used in court as evidence. …
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Topic:The Throne of Grace 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. 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 …
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Topics: God, Lifestyle What Is Idolatry? By Billy Graham December 11 Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father . . . —Matthew 10:33 What is idolatry? Idolatry is anything that comes between us and God. Joshua told his people that their nation would be destroyed if they persisted in idolatry, and their souls …
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Topic:Seek God First Gloria Copeland Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33 Whenever Ken and I talk about living by faith, I know there are some people who think, Oh, that’s easy for you. You’re preachers. You have it made! And, in some ways, we do. …
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Topic:The True Servant Bible in a Year: Hosea 1–4 Revelation 1 Being found in appearance as a man, [Jesus] humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Philippians 2:6–11 In 27 bc, the Roman ruler Octavian came before the Senate to lay down his powers. He’d won a civil war, become the sole ruler of that region …
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Topic:DIVINELY ARRANGED, BEAUTIFULLY TIMED Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time… Nothing happens to you by accident when you have God in your life. Even a “chance” meeting with someone is part of His plan to set in motion His blessings in your life. Such was the divinely arranged meeting of the Shunammite woman and Prophet Elisha. …
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Topic:Living Out of Rest There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Hebrews 4:9-10 Here is a revolutionary new principle of human behavior, on which God intends man to operate. It is from this that man fell, and it is to …
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Topics: Love Steadfast Love By Billy Graham December 10 Your steadfast love, O Lord, is as great as all the heavens . . . —Psalm 36:5 (TLB) Young people talk a lot about love. Most of their songs are about love. . . . “The supreme happiness of life,” Victor Hugo said long ago, “is the conviction that we are …
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Topic:Love: The Secret of Success Kenneth Copeland Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:8, The Amplified Bible Fear of failure. It’s haunted all of us at some time in our lives. Popular psychology tells us to adjust to it. But the Word of God tells us that there is a failure-proof way to live without it. It is the way of …
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