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We Can Always Come Back

REVELATION 2:1-5 – To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.  “I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are…

Living in Two Worlds

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 – So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the…

One Thing is Needed, Asked For, and Sought

PHILIPPIANS 3:10 –  that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.” Did the theme of the day immediately cause you to pause and ponder what this one thing is?  Well, let’s not just list or define it.  We will define it through specific illustrations from God’s Word establishing…

A Wonderful and Needed Prayer

ROMANS 15:13 – May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” How do we pray? Go through our praying. What do our prayers consist of?  Are we just filling the air with words?  Do our hearts match our tongues?  Are most prayers…

Sometimes The Best Help Is Silence

PROVERBS 25:20 – Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.”   Reading Proverbs daily is a particularly good spiritual discipline.  And this Old Testament wisdom book is suited for doing so.  There are 31 Proverbs that may be read according to the day of the…

What the World Needs to See

1 JOHN 2:3-5 – And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that…