Billy Graham Devotional 20 February 2023 – Overcome Temptation Topic: Overcome Temptation Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. — Psalm 119:11 When temptations come, let me suggest that you ask God for strength-and also to show you the way He has prepared for your escape. One other word of counsel; be very sure …
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Topic: Chosen by God . . . you have been chosen by God who has given you this new kind of life . . . — Colossians 3:12 (TLB) Modern writers depict the pessimism of our time and many of them throw up their hands in despair and say, “There is no answer to man’s dilemma.” Hemingway once said, “I …
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Topic:Filled With Christ By Billy Graham January 1 . . . Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. —Philippians 3:13 (TLB) As we flick the calendar to a new year, we come face to face with the fact that our days on earth are numbered. As the Psalmist wrote, “Teach us to number our days, that we …
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Topics: Sin Symptoms of Guilt By Billy Graham September 25 Cleanse me from this guilt. Let me be pure again. —Psalm 51:2 (TLB) Guilt is a prominent word among psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and ministers too. The dictionary calls guilt “the act or state of having done a wrong or committed an offense.” The symptoms of guilt are many, but the root …
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Topic:Dream Great Dreams By Billy Graham September 10 Be thou faithful unto death . . . —Revelation 2:10 In our day much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, meaninglessness, have gripped much of the world—and even the church. Our youth are desperately searching for a purpose and a meaning in their …
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Topics: Crucifixion The Greatest Work of Christ By Billy Graham September 4 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. —Ephesians 6:12 Jesus worked all His life. But the greatest work that Jesus did was not in the carpenter’s shop, …
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Topics: Discipleship The Responsibility of Discipleship By Billy Graham September 3 Even while we were still there with you we gave you this rule: ‘He who does not work shall not eat.’ —2 Thessalonians 3:10 (TLB) One of the Christian’s responsibilities in following Christ is to have a new attitude toward work. So many young people want Christ without responsibility. …
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Topics: Grace Grace and Peace By Billy Graham August 28 Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. —Ephesians 4:7 The Christian life is never spoken of in the Bible as a bed of roses. It is uphill, because society is coming one way and the Christian is going the opposite …
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Topics: Pride, Suffering The Secret of Surrender By Billy Graham August 27 Just as you used to be slaves to all kinds of sin, so now you must let yourselves be slaves to all that is right and holy. —Romans 6:19 (TLB) We have heard the modern expression, “Don’t fight it—it’s bigger than both of us.” Those who are meek …
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Topics: Worry Be Not Anxious By Billy Graham August 19 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. —Colossians 3:16 Christians are to rejoice. To do that, you need only to think of the great …
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