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God's Great Love For Us
July 19th
John 10:25 'Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.'
JOHN 10:24-25
There were many ways in which Jesus already revealed who He was. His miraculous works certainly revealed who He was. Jesus had also clearly revealed that He was the Christ, both in the synagogue at His hometown of Nazareth, and when speaking to the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well.
Jesus, in His pre-existent state, was in the form of God. 'In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God' (Jn. 1:1).
Jesus was God, manifest in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16). However, Jesus did not demand or...
MOST OF YOU KNOW MY STORY AS I HAVE TOLD IT A COUPLE OF TIMES BEFORE BUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT HEARD IT, I HOPE IT WILL HELP BUILD YOUR FAITH. DON'T TAKE GOD'S PROMISES LIGHTLY. THIS IS HOW GOD KEPT HIS PROMISE TO ME.
We Must Receive
July 18th
Luke 13:16 'And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?'
LUKE 13:10-17
This sickness was the work of Satan - not the work of God. Jesus said it had bound her - not blessed her - for eighteen years. The teaching that says that sickness is actually a blessing in disguise, because the Lord is working His plan in one's life, is not found in scripture. As Acts 10:38 says, Jesus 'went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil,' not 'oppressed of God.'
There are 17 times in the Gospels when Jesus healed all of the sick that were present. There are 47...
Avoid Strife
July 17th
Luke 12:58 'When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.'
LUKE 12:56-59
Jesus had just spoken about relationships before He gave this parable of delivering ourselves from the judge. The warning is clear that we should do everything within our power to avoid strife (Rom. 12:18). However, the consequences of failing to settle the differences are more than just physical prison or punishment.
Strife can produce spiritual and emotional prisons. James 3:16 says, 'where envying and...
HOW IS YOUR PRAYER LIFE THESE DAYS? I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE BUT WE SOMETIMES FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT OUR PRAYERS. I KNOW JESUS TELLS US IN MATTHEW 7:7 TO "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." ALL OF OUR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED IF WE JUST ASK ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT SO CUT AND DRY AS THIS VERSE MAKES IT OUT TO BE. THE VERSE IS TRUE BECAUSE JESUS SAID IT BUT IT IS NOT A BLANK CHECK TO JUST GET WHATEVER YOU WANT AS SOME PEOPLE THINK. THERE ARE THINGS WE HAVE TO DO.
No Excuses
July 16th
Luke 12:48 'But he that knew not, and did
LUKE 12:45-48
This verse is one of the clearest references in scripture about varying degrees of God's judgment according to the knowledge of the
THIS WEEKEND I SIGNED UP FOR A FREE ONLINE COURSE ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION TAUGHT BY JACOB BECK OF THE DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. I THOUGHT I WOULD TAKE IT BECAUSE REVELATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND SO I THOUGHT I COULD LEARN SOMETHING. THIS GOT ME THINKING ABOUT REVELATION SO I DECIDED TO START READING IT AGAIN. IN READING IT, I CAME ACROSS A VERY INTERESTING FEW VERSES IN CHAPTER 21 AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FEEL GOOD, JUST READ IT. VERSES 3 AND 4 READS AS FOLLOWS, "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there...
Stewards Of God's Grace
July 15th
Luke 12:42 'And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?'
LUKE 12:42
A steward is a person who has been entrusted with administering someone else's wealth or affairs. The possessions a steward controls are not his own and he does not have the freedom to do with them as he wishes. He is supposed to carry out the desires of the one who made him steward.
A banker is a steward. He has been entrusted with other people's money. He is free to invest that money wisely in a way that will benefit his depositors and stockholders, but would be sent to jail if...