Author: TRACY
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Tend My Sheep
Matthew 18:18-20, “Truly I say to you, whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by Read more
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Fully Known
1 Corinthians 13:12, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then, I shall know fully, just as I also have been fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13 is referred to as the Excellence of Love chapter in my Bible. Many preachers have preached on Read more
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Increasing Qualities
2 Peter 1:8, “For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” What qualities is Peter talking about? 2 Peter 1:5-7 tells us, “Now for this very reason also applying all diligence in your faith, supply moral excellence, and Read more
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Not yet finished
Philippians 1:6, “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” Let me tell you a story I read. There was a man who was chosen to be a disciple of Jesus. He was with Jesus at the Read more
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My Advocate
1 John 1:8-9, “If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sin, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous.” This verse holds so much comfort to me. The words, “He is Read more
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Seven times
Proverbs 24:16, “For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in time of calamity.” I read once that righteousness is not achieving perfection but making steady progress. It is a continuous journey of aligning ourselves with God’s standards. The difference between a righteous and unrighteous man is not whether Read more
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Don’t lose heart
Galatians 6:9, “And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.” My brother gave me a plant at the beginning of the summer. A beautiful hanging plant. It’s an annual petunia, I think. He told me it likes a lot of water, Read more
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My friend
John 15:13-15, “Greater love has no one than that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, for all things Read more
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He laughs
Psalm 2:2-6, “The kings of the earth take their stand. And the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Annointed. Let us tear the fetters apart and cast their cords from us!” He who sits in the heavens laughs. The Lord scoffs at them. then He will speak to them in anger Read more
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Perspective
Colossians 2:2, “Their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the knowledge of the mystery of God.” I read once that Jonas Salk was asked about his vaccine against polio how he viewed his 200 previous failures. His response was, “I Read more