Gen 48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
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Here we find that Jacob guided his hands wittingly. It was custom for a father to give dying blessings to his sons and that is what take place in Genesis 49. At this time Jacob was blessing his grandsons and it was the practice […]
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2 Cor 7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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I was reading a book some time ago about the 23rd Psalm and the writer was at one time a sheep farmer and he wrote about a sheep that was cast. That sheep had fallen and for one reason or another had rolled upon its back and could not get up. Left alone gasses would build up inside the sheep […] -
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Ps 119:15-18 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
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In this beautiful Psalm there is recorded for us several prayers offered up to God by David and one of them found […] -
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Acts 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
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Jesus had a passion for the cross, has a passion for souls, has a passion for the redeemed in Christ. Jesus also has a passion for the young people. (Luke 18:15-16 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his […] -
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Acts 1:1-3 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
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Acts 1:1-3 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
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Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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I conducted a funeral yesterday which was what was leading to the devotionals this week. The man was just forty five years old, the second funeral I have had this year for a forty five year old man. They were not related but did have a great deal in common. Both were born, lived, and died at an all too early age. […] -
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Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Jesus Christ came into the world to take care of the sin problem for all mankind. Just as all have sinned and all means all, Christ died on the cross for all and all can be saved. But how? Is believing in God enough? Is knowing what Jesus did enough? No. If it were Satan and his demons would all […] -
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Eph 2:1-3 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 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 in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature […] -
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Gen 3:1-7 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye […]