John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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How nice it is to be chosen. I remember pick up baseball games, football games, basketball games of my youth when two people would begin to pick the teams and names would be called […]
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Daily Devotions
1 Tim 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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How many faithful sayings do you know? Red sky at night, a sailors delight, red sky in the morning sailor take warning. That is considered a faithful saying but I have witnessed many times rain following a red sky at night and the day be dry after a red sky in […] -
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Ps 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
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We had our chimney inspected and cleaned yesterday by a good friend and brother in the Lord and it received a clean bill of health if I can put it that way so there is fire burning in the wood boiler this morning. It reminds […] -
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Ps 130:1-3 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
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No matter how many times we may call out to the Lord from the depths, from the depths of trial and troubles, from the depths of doubts and fears, our Lord always hears our voice and is always attentive to our needs. I wonder how many times those depths may […] -
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Ps 52:1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
Ps 107:15 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Ps 144:1-2 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth […] -
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Eph 4:14-15 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
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It has been a long, long time now but there was a time when I heard people tell me to grow up. […] -
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Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Titus 3:12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
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The first fire of the year is now burning in the wood boiler in the house and soon all will be warm and cozy. Wood has been hauled in, […] -
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Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Eph 2:2-3 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation […] -
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John 21:5-6 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
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It is always the right thing to do when we do what Jesus commands. This is the second time they found their boats and nets empty […] -
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Phil 3:4-6 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
KJV
If any man in the Bible had reason to boast […]