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Salvation

All The Way Home

GENESIS 48:15 – And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day. THEME OF THE DAY. ALL THE WAY HOME. Dying words are important words. If we knew that this Friday will be our last day on earth, the time we…

Confronting Our Anxieties

MATTHEW 6:25-34 – “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet…

Our Big God

GENESIS 35:9-11 – God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel. And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a…

He Is Trustworthy

GENESIS 21:1 – The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised. THEME OF THE DAY. HE IS TRUSTWORTY. Today’s scripture is brief but packed with an encouraging truth; God can be trusted. Oh, we know that is true, but is it not also true we find it difficult to trust Him when…

Face to Face With Jesus

REVELATION 22:4 – They will see His face . . . THEME OF THE DAY. FACE-TO-FACE WITH JESUS. Each of us has experienced a reunion with a loved. It might have been a short or long separation, but what was occupying our hearts was the same. We experienced the feeling inside of anticipation, expectation and excitement. I remember long deployments in the…

The Preventing Grace Of God

GENESIS 20:1–6 – From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a…