Topic:When Not To Run Away READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 6:10-14 Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go! Nehemiah 6:11 Once again the enemy switches his tactics, reverting again to subterfuge. A word comes in the form of a prophecy, but this man is …
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Topic:A Great Work READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 6:1-9 I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you? Nehemiah 6:3b These erstwhile enemies suddenly become Nehemiah’s friends and invite him to a conference down on the plain of Ono. It is located down on the …
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Topic:Internal Strife READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 5 Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers. Nehemiah 5:1 In chapter 5, the Unseen Enemy tries yet another approach. Nehemiah has successfully handled the threatened attack from without, but now he runs into a problem from within his own ranks. You may experience that too in …
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Topic:No Faith A daily devotion for January 9th Do you still have no faith? Mark 4:40c This is why people become afraid–because they lose faith. Faith is the answer to fear. Faith is always the answer to our fears, regardless of what they are. Jesus put His finger right on it: “Do you still have no faith?” Well, evidently they …
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Topic:Secrets Revealed A daily devotion for January 8th With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand. Mark 4:33 This verse presents one great rule of revelation: God only reveals “as much as they could understand.” Jesus teaches people only as they can take it. This is the rule upon which God works …
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Topic:The Perils Of Popularity A daily devotion for January 6th Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake, and a large crowd from Galilee followed. When they heard all he was doing, many people came to him from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and the regions across the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon. Mark 3:7-8 We have difficulty grasping the size …
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Topic:The Scandal Maker A daily devotion for January 5th While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him Mark 2:15 This evidently was a farewell dinner Matthew gave for his friends, his tax-collecting buddies. He was saying farewell to his work and …
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Topic:God’s House A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 8TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 3:1-6 Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the …
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Topic:Perfect Through Suffering A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 7TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 2:10-18 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. Hebrews 2:10 The earthly life of Jesus is referred to in one phrase, perfect …
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Topic:Restoring Dominion A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 6TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 2:5-9 In putting everything under them, God left nothing that is not subject to them. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them. But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor …
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