Escape!

  Trouble overwhelms us! Difficulties consume us! The fast pace of our society demands so much! Satan continually temps us! All we want to do is escape! However, for the Christian, we have help with our deepest struggles. In the closing verses of Habakkuk, he declares his ultimate faith in God and we can draw strength from it today when we are ready to escape the feelings of being overwhelmed,...

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Need a Miracle?

What miracle do you need today? Both the Old and New Testament are full of examples of our miracle working God! You can trust that God is able to meet your every need. As we know, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1, KJV),” and “…whatsoever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23b).” We also know that when Jesus was on earth he went about...

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Heavenly Longing

Do you long for heaven? Do you value life on earth greater than eternity with God saying, “Lord come, but not before…?” Do you operate on earth to see the fulfillment of heaven’s promises? Hebrews 11 is a chapter in the Bible known as the “Heroes of the Faith.” In the middle of that chapter, verse 13, we find the controlling and sustaining factor for these heroes: These people all died controlled...

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Man's Purpose

Do you know your purpose in life? God does! Often in these posts, the Amplified version of the Bible is used. The Amplified Bible is a Literal Equivalent translation that, by using synonyms and definitions, both explains and expands the meaning of words in the text by placing amplification in parentheses, brackets, and after key words. The use of brackets adds information supported by other Scripture,...

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Touch

The largest organ of our bodies is the skin covering about 21 square feet of the average adult body and weighing 9 pounds with more than 11 miles of blood vessels. Our skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute and humans are responsible for about a billion tons of dust (dead skin) in the atmosphere. God’s creative work helps us “feel” the world around us. Receptors enable us to feel and react to pain...

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Touch

The largest organ of our bodies is the skin covering about 21 square feet of the average adult body and weighing 9 pounds with more than 11 miles of blood vessels. Our skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute and humans are responsible for about a billion tons of dust (dead skin) in the atmosphere. God’s creative work helps us “feel” the world around us. Receptors enable us to feel and react to pain and...

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Earth Day Wisdom

Earth Day was this week and for many this is promoting man's wisdom above the wisdom of God. While we are called to be good stewards, this celebration was created with the mindset that man is in control of his own destiny and denies the existence of a sovereign God who is in control of the Universe's continuance. In Job chapter 38, God enters the scene and begins taking Job to task for his prolonged grief and loss. I hope to never be found having to answer God on questions like these....

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Shifting Sands

Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name. (Hebrews 13:15, AMPC)   In the closing statements of the Sermon on the Mount found in Matthew 7, Jesus provides wisdom for consideration. Governing obedience is not by what we say, but by what we do. The Sermon on the Mount is the longest recorded sermon given by our Lord covering chapters 5-7 in...

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Faith Filled Thinking

But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law. (Hebrews 5:14, AMPC)Identify, reject, and replace falsehoods with biblical truth is the constant work for our mind to remain on Christ. We must watch “self-talk.” Do you realize what that means? The main trouble with thoughts is that we...

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Saturated Mind

Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts. (Colossians 3:16, AMPC) The idea here is to super-saturate our minds with biblical truth. As if a large sponge that is so saturated with...

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Mind Renewal!

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. (Romans 12:2, AMPC) The key to spiritual growth is mental transformation. Those who focus...

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