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Taking the Initiative Against Despair February 18, 2016 Rise, let us be going. —Matthew 26:46 In the Garden of Gethsemane, the disciples went to sleep when they should have stayed awake, and once they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of having done something irreversible tends to make us despair. We say, “Well, it’s all over and ruined now; what’s the point in trying anymore.” If we think this kind of despair is an exception, we…
Verse of the Day – Matthew 18:20 KJV
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
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The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative Arise from the dead… —Ephesians 5:14 Not all initiative, the willingness to take the first step, is inspired by God. Someone may say to you, “Get up and get going! Take your reluctance by the throat and throw it overboard— just do what needs to be done!” That is what we mean by ordinary human initiative. But when the Spirit of God comes to us and says, in effect, “Get up and get going,” suddenly…
Verse of the Day – Philippians 4:13 KJV
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
15 February, 2016 12:35
Verse of the Day – Jeremiah 17:10 KJV “I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”
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The Discipline of Hearing Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. —Matthew 10:27 Sometimes God puts us through the experience and discipline of darkness to teach us to hear and obey Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and God puts us into “the shadow of His hand” until we learn to hear Him (Isaiah 49:2). “Whatever I tell you in the…
14 February, 2016 12:24
Verse of the Day – John 15:13 KJV“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
13 February, 2016 13:06
The Devotion of Hearing Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.” —1 Samuel 3:10 Just because I have listened carefully and intently to one thing from God does not mean that I will listen to everything He says. I show God my lack of love and respect for Him by the insensitivity of my heart and mind toward what He says. If I love my friend, I will instinctively understand what he wants. And Jesus said, “You are My friends…”…
Verse of the Day – Galatians 6:9 KJV
Verse of the Day – Galatians 6:9 KJV “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
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Are You Listening to God? February 12, 2016 They said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” —Exodus 20:19 We don’t consciously and deliberately disobey God— we simply don’t listen to Him. God has given His commands to us, but we pay no attention to them— not because of willful disobedience, but because we do not truly love and respect Him. “If you love Me, keep My…
Verse of the Day -John 10:28-30 KJV
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.