Tag: love
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I’m just a nobody, saved by grace
2 Corinthians 12:9, “And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” I saw a saying the other day that said, “If you want God to open the door, let go of the handle.” I was reminded of Paul’s thorn in the flesh that he entreated Read more
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Someone is looking
James 5:9, “Do not complain brethren against one another, that you yourselves may not be judged, behold the Judge is standing right at the door.” When I was a kid, the most feared words to come out of my mother’s mouth were “Wait until your father gets home.” We knew we were in big trouble. Read more
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Power in the Blood
Revelation 12:11, “And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life over death.” Yesterday, I visited a different church than the one I normally attend. The congregation stood during the worship singing. A woman gave her testimony of Read more
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On Our Side
Psalm 124:1-5, “Had it not been the Lord who was on our side”, Let Israel now say, “Had it not been the Lord who was on our side”, when men rose up against us; then they would have swallowed us alive, When their anger was against us; then the waters would have engulfed us, the 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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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 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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Opinion or judging
Acts 14:10-13, “But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall give praise to Read more
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Stumbling Block
Romans 14:1-4, “Now, accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions. One man has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only. Let not him who eats regard with contempt him who does not eat, and let Read more
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Love conquers failure
Luke 22:61-62, “And the Lord turned and looked at Peter and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, ‘Before a cock crows today, you will deny Me three times.’ And he went out and wept bitterly.” Luke 22:31-32, tells us of the warning Jesus told Peter before He was seized. Read more