Topic:God’s Compassion And Mercy READ THE SCRIPTURE: JOB 42:12-13 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first.Job 42:12a This is what James calls in the Revised Standard Version the purpose of the Lord (James 5:11), revealing God to be compassionate and merciful. God did not suddenly become compassionate and merciful to Job; He had been that way …
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Topic:A God Of Purpose Then Job replied to the LORD: I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. Job 42:1-2 The greatest theme in this book of Job is that it reveals to us the character of God Himself. God often appears to us as a cold, impersonal Being, distant from us, uncaring, …
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Topic:A Willing Spirit Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:12 Several years ago, while I was preparing to preach a sermon on this psalm, I received an anonymous letter from someone in my congregation saying that he was a Christian but was involved in a very serious and …
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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:Seed Thoughts A daily devotion for January 7th He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.” Mark 4:26-27 This is a secret of the kingdom of God, and to …
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Topic:Warning, Warning! A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 9TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 3:7-15 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have …
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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:The Power to Cleanse A DAILY DEVOTION FOR DECEMBER 3RD READ THE SCRIPTURE: HEBREWS 1:3B-4 He provided the way for people to be made pure from sin. Then he sat down at the right hand of the King, the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 1:3b Jesus is the final and complete word of God to man because he has solved the …
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Topic:That You May Become What I Am A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JULY 27TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ACTS 26:24-32 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do. Then Agrippa said to Paul, Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian? Paul replied, Short time or long — I pray …
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Topic:By Faith In Me A DAILY DEVOTION FOR JULY 26TH READ THE SCRIPTURE: ACTS 25:1-26:23 Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. …
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