Topic:CHOOSING JOY January 09 Luke 1:46-47, “And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.” LUKE 1:39-56 Here, Mary makes a very clear distinction between her soul magnifying the Lord and her spirit rejoicing. Our soul is the part of us that is considered to be our personality. It is our …
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Topic:BELIEVERS RECEIVE January 08 Luke 1:45, “And blessed [is] she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.” LUKE 1:39-56 There are many reasons why God’s blessings don’t always come to pass in a person’s life, but the most frequent cause is simply unbelief on our part. There are no …
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Topic:THE POWER TO SERVE january 07 Luke 1:41, “And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.” LUKE 1:39-56 Upon hearing the greeting of Mary, John the Baptist leaped for joy inside his mother’s womb (v. 44). A six month old fetus …
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Topic:NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE january 06 Luke 1:37, “For with God nothing shall be impossible.” LUKE 1:26-38 What a statement! If we just believed this, how different our lives would be! From birth we are trained to know our limitations. You can’t have this. Don’t touch that. Don’t put things in your mouth. You can’t touch the fire. On and on …
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Topic:KNOWING GOD’S WILL IS NOT ENOUGH january 05 Luke 1:34, “Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” LUKE 1:26-38 Contrast Mary’s question and Gabriel’s response with the question that Zacharias asked Gabriel and the response that he received (Luke 1:18-20). You will find the questions are similar but the responses are …
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Topic:CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? January 04 Luke 1:18, “And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.” LUKE 1:5-25 Zacharias and Elisabeth were righteous people (v. 6) who prayed for a child for many years. They felt the same disappointments and frustrations that any of …
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Topic:ABOUT GENEALOGIES January 03 Luke 3:23, “And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.” MATTHEW 1:1-17; LUKE 3:23-38 Even the genealogies are inspired by God and profitable (2 Tim. 3:16). Matthew traces Jesus’ genealogy through Joseph back to Solomon. However, there was a …
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Topic:NOW, OR THEN? January 02 John 1:16, “And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.” JOHN 1:1-18 The Christian life is not like an insurance policy that only pays off when we die and go to heaven. Every believer has now received the grace of God and the fullness of God. We are now complete in …
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Topic:GOD STILL PERFORMS MIRACLES December 31 Mark 16:20 “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.” MARK 16:20 The Lord confirmed the preaching of His Word with miracles. If Jesus and the first century Christians needed the Word confirmed with the miraculous (Heb. 2:4), then we do …
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Topic:USE YOUR DELEGATED AUTHORITY December 30 Mark 16:18 “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” MARK 16:18 This either speaks literally of supernatural protection if we pick up a snake, or symbolically of protection in our fight against the …
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