Tag: hope
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The Addict’s Struggle
133Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.–Psalm 119 Here are three points that jump out at me from today’s text.
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Turn On the Light!
05Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.–Psalm 119 A few years ago I recall being persuaded by a nutritionist to add additional glasses of water to my daily intake. I wish I could tell you that it aided my weight loss journey tremendously. But it did guarantee one…
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Mercy Required
77Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.–Psalm 119 There is a tension with the law of God. Paul summed it up well. What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the…
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Sovereign Inner Guidance
36Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! 37Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.–Psalm 119 Here are five points I would like to make regarding this passage. Now I want you to ponder your story. Is there any lasting hope for you as…
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What Are You Storing in Your Heart?
11I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.–Psalm 119 I counsel my friends journeying with depression to maintain a quiver of arrows ready to draw upon and fire. Each of those arrows is a powerful piece of self-talk based upon Biblical truth. And the best arrows are…
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Rejoice and Be Glad
24This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.–Psalm 118 My perspective each day is challenged by this verse. Today is God’s day. He made it. It belongs to Him. Today’s purpose is ultimately found in giving God glory and longing for His will to be done in and…
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Transcendence and Immanence
4The Lord is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. 5Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high, 6who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? 7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; 8he seats them with princes, with…
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Prayer and Enemies
1Be not silent, O God of my praise! 2For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. 3They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. 4In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. 5So they reward me evil for…
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Popeye Theology
9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain…–1 Corinthians 15 Popeye the Sailor Man many years ago made the phrase ‘I yam what…
Joel M Bradshaw 