Isa 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
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The axe head floated, the mountain was made a plain as we have looked at the last two days. God is concerned with the smallest of things in our lives as well as the mountains set before us. Why is this so important for us to remember? Because we will be in the furnace of affliction many times while […]
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Zech 4:5-9 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the […] -
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2 Kings 6:1-7 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
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Ps 91:1-2 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
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I am not sure there is a Psalm that fits our life in this world more perfectly as does the ninety first Psalm. No matter the trial, the worry, the circumstance of life that is set before […] -
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Prov 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
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I was driving on some roads yesterday that were anything but good, headed for a highway that most likely would have been worse. Where snow was not making driving difficult rain was starting to freeze on the roadway. I stopped and went back home in order to avoid an accident. Did you know there are highways in the Bible? […] -
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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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