Tag: trust
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You Either Lament or You Gossip
16But I call to God, and the LORD will save me. 17Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice. 18He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage… …22Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you…–Psalm 55 Gripes come in many forms. Some…
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Which Person Are You?
17But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” 19These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. 20But you, dear friends, by building yourselves…
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If a Letter Were Written About You
1This letter is from John, the elder. I am writing to Gaius, my dear friend, whom I love in the truth. 2Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit. 3Some of the traveling teachers recently returned and made me very happy by…
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How Important Is Jesus Being a Real Human?
7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.–2 John The Apostle John faced an earlier form of Gnosticism affecting some of the churches. One of the features of this heresy was to promote that Jesus didn’t really come in the flesh,…
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Do You Serve an Idol in Your Heart?
21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.–1 John 5 This was the last surviving disciple of Jesus who wrote these words. He could call anyone he wanted to a “little child” in a spiritual sense! I encourage you today to be like a child and receive his warning. What is an idol? An idol is something…
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Do You Love Like God?
7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.8Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that…
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Why Is Someone a Child of God?
1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we…
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Do You Love God Most and Adopt His Values?
15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17And the…
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Are You Deceiving Yourself?
8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.–1 John 1 What deceptions regarding sin do you use? The bad news is that if you claim…
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Take the Best Journey of All
45Then [Jesus] opened [His disciples’] minds to understand the Scriptures…–Luke 24 The word for “opened” was used in the New Testament only here and in Acts 16 where God opened the heart of a woman named Lydia. Here, Jesus opened their minds to understand. With Lydia, God opened her heart to serve. Here are a…
Joel M Bradshaw 