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Pondering The Living Word ~ Power for Life
“God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also...
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Pondering Our Privilege of Right to Restful Pastures
Read Hebrews 2:14-3:19 Focal passage: Hebrews 3:7-11 “Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, ‘Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, as in the day of trial...
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Marked for Life
Listening to Ezekiel 9 the other day, verse 4 catches my attention. In it, God sends His angel out to “mark” the foreheads of those whose hearts are grieved over sin. Asking the Lord, “Why the...
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Happy Anniversary!
I have had little time for writing of late, and I am pushing it being on the computer this much today, but I do not want to miss this day of anniversary. It is four years ago today that I posted the...
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Things Leading to Perfect Peace ~ Part 3
Fruitful Abiding “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good...
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Things Leading to Perfect Peace and More!
Other produce of the “These things” spoken by Christ: “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have perfect peace and confidence. …” ~ John 16:33, AMP. In this series, we looked at the...
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Parent with Discipline and Instruction
Today’s Bible Gateway scripture grabbed me with a different-than-usual understanding. “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the...
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In Jesus Name: a Look at John 17 ~ Part 4c
Read John 17 “I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even...
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We Thrive at God’s Side ~ Part 3: Apprenticeship
“And as her soul was departing, for she died, she called his name Ben-oni [son of my sorrow]; but his father called him Benjamin [son of the right hand]” ~ Genesis 35:18, AMP. I believe that God calls...
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We Thrive at God’s Side ~ Part 3b: Apprenticeship
“Now what I mean is that as long as the inheritor (heir) is a child and under age, he does not differ from a slave, although he is the master of all the estate; but he is under guardians and...
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It Is Time To Grow Up
“And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed,...
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Listening Prayer (Part 1) ~ Requires Circumcised Ears
“The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple and of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear to...
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Listening Prayer (Part 2-A) ~ The Work of The Helper
“For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared...
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Listening Prayer (Part 2-B) ~ The Work of The Helper
“But when the Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby comes, Whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth Who comes from the Father, He, Himself will...
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Listening Prayer (Part 2-C) ~ The Work of The Helper
Reviewing the work of the Spirit covered in our previous post, we saw that once we receive the Spirit of God through believing faith and repentant heart willing for change, the Spirit moves in,...
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Listening Prayer (Part 3) ~ The Trustworthy Mind of Christ
“But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual...
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Listening Prayer (Part 4-C) ~ The Way of It
“Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil” ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22. As we...
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Difficult Things 2-A ~ Faith That Moves Mountains
In the first “Difficult Things” post, speaking of truly trusting God, we mentioned that the disciples were unable to heal the demon-possessed boy brought to them by the man who came with a small seed...
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Recognizing and Defeating a Factious Spirit ~ Part 1
“Reject a factious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned” ~ Titus 3:10-11 (read verses 1-11). Factions form around controversy....
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Recognizing and Defeating a Factious Spirit ~ Part 6
Wow. I thought I finished this series, and then God spoke again through another passage and added to my understanding of the factious, divisive spirit that grabs hold on us and leads us away from God’s...
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