Luke 8:9-15 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? 10?And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. 11?Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12?Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their […]
Daily Devotions
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Daily Devotions
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Daily Devotions
Proverbs 18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Tragedy proceeded the writing of the hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” as is the case with so many of the great hymns of faith. But I wonder this morning why that needs to be so? Jesus is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. From the moment we are saved and the Holy Spirit takes […]
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John 14:1-9 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2?In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3?And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4?And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. […]
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Acts 9:1-6 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2?And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. 3?And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4?And he fell to the earth, and heard a […]
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1 Peter 1:3-8
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4?To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5?Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6?Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for […] -
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John 13:31-38 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32?If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 33?Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. 34?A new commandment I give unto […]
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Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in a day of salvation have I helped thee: And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
This is the first full week of 2011. I wonder how all those reading this will begin the day, begin the week, begin the New Year? Will it be a year that […]
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James 4:13-17 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14?Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15?For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. […]
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Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
These are good words to meditate upon as we come to the close of another year. I am not sure what 2010 held for all who may be reading this devotional. For many as they look back they will see trials that they never saw coming or they did not think they could ever get through. […]
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1 Samuel 7:12-13Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 13?So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
“The Lord helped us.” How many times as we look back on 2010 can we say that the Lord helped us? At least […]