Tag: trust
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You Sustained Them
20You [God] gave your good Spirit to instruct them [their ancestors] and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 21Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.–Nehemiah 9 God called their disobedient…
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So We Built the Wall
6So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.–Nehemiah 4 The builders faced opposition from certain people. So Nehemiah led the people to pray that God would frustrate that opposition. The opposition was not just vocal, but physical. So Nehemiah…
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Above All Else
23Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. 24Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. 25Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. 26Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. 27Do not turn to the…
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The Paths of Life
16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, 17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. 18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. 19None who go to her return or…
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As For You, Brothers
13As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.–2 Thessalonians 3 BROTHERS. Paul was writing this to a church. Any Christian reading this verse needs to perk up and pay attention. Your context may be different than the 1st century Christian in Thessalonica, but the Jesus we follow is the same and the…
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Keep A Strong Grip
15With all these things in mind, dear brothers and sisters, stand firm and keep a strong grip on the teaching we passed on to you both in person and by letter. 16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a…
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God May Make You Worthy
11With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in…
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Once Safely on Shore
1Once safely on shore, we [Paul and his companions] found out that the island was called Malta. 2The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. 3Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the…
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Urged Them All to Eat
33Just before dawn Paul urged them all [on the ship] to eat. “For the last fourteen days,” he said, “you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven’t eaten anything. 34Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from…
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So Take Heart
21Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss. 22Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but…
