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  • Psalm 37 - Do Not Fret

    old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread. 26       He is  ever “Give us today our daily bread” means, Do take care of all our physical needs so that we come to know anything but blessing - even though you've not walked, stood or sat in the company of evildoers and have made a concerted effort to meditate on God's Word.

  • Psalm 143 - Aggressive Prayer Pattern

    You can make aggressive demands of the God who unconditionally chose you. biblehub.com Psalm 143 (NIV righteous before you. 3  The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. 11  For your name’s sake This psalm also helps us see that not every prayer must fit into the AAA format that so many other Biblical That's what makes this doctrine of unconditional grace so amazing!

  • Genesis 6:5-8 - Only Evil All the Time

    6:5-8 5  The LORD saw how great the wickedness of man ( ʾā·ḏām ) had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6  The LORD regretted that he had made with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made the serpent's bargain: now every inclination of ʾā·ḏām's heart was only evil all the time .   humanity became deeply corrupt, God was grieved because they no longer reflected the people He had made

  • John 14:15-27 - The Holy Advocate-Comforter-Counselor-Spirit

    Almost every English Bible translation uses a different word here to describe the title given to the Yet the Spirit is every bit as much fully God as what the Father and the Son are. In other words, the Spirit is counseling, comforting and advocating from within you to make you look

  • Ephesians 1:3-6 - Predestined Praise

    Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every He set us apart so that the holiness and blamelessness of Christ would belong to us and we would be made predestination is so hard to wrap your head around, there have been all sorts of cooked up explanations to help make This seems to make the whole idea easier to swallow, since it seems way more fair and not so arbitrary

  • Psalm 62 - Sovereign Security

    4  Surely they intend to topple me from my lofty place; they take delight in lies. Thus, if the marvelous Maker of every good thing were not dealing with us,  we would have no hope of We have a tendency to think the world is more evil now than it's ever been, but that's probably not the our confidence and trust in our Savior, not just for our eternal salvation, but for His providence in every David's central claim in Psalm 62 is that his salvation and his honor - that is, every aspect of His

  • Romans 8:31-34 - Secured in Your Salvation

    Every verse in it is pure comforting truth, and today's short passage is no exception. At this very moment, He i s at the right hand of God and is also interceding for you. Know that at every moment of every day - on days that you feel close to God, and especially on days where

  • Luke 9:21–27 - Walking in Circles

    day.” 23 And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take and follow Me. 24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake This goes against every grain of conventional marketing advice which prizes viral, organic word of mouth Then Jesus makes the disciples (and us) an offer that doesn't make any worldly sense: if anyone wishes Take up your cross daily.

  • Esther 4 - Moving Forward by Faith

    went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. 3 In every Except her position didn’t make her task simple—it made it dangerous in its own right. In this high-stakes moment, Esther and Mordecai had to make decisions based on the information they had While Esther said, If I perish, I perish, Jesus Christ was willing to actually perish for our sake, knowing

  • Acts 2:42–47 - Golden Age or Godly Example?

    apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every Confession Article 29: The Marks of the True Church We believe that we ought to discern diligently and very recognized if it has the following marks: The church engages in the pure preaching of the gospel; it makes Dig Deeper Taking a look at this picture of the early Church that Luke paints for us, people sometimes

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