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(35) Negativity Bias & Miserable Comforters
You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you! ~ Job 14:4 “I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you! ~ Job 16:2 It turns out we humans are naturally inclined to think more negatively than positively — a tendency researchers call negativity bias. This…
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(34) The Rearguard
“But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rearguard. ~ Isaiah 52:12 When Israel left Egypt and went out marching through the wilderness for 40 years, who was at the back? Who was at the tail-end, behind everyone…
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(33) Diligently Seeking Good but…
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who inquires of evil, it will come to him. ~ Prov. 11:27 (LEB) ~ Seeking the good requires diligence and effort in a fallen world and there is NO guarantee that you will get it. ~ Seeking evil requires only a mere inquiry and it will…
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(32) Fact Checking Our Imaginations ~ Fear
“We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.” ~ Numbers 13:3 “And they said to each other, ‘We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.’” ~ Numbers 14:4 ~ When we go through…
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(31) Fear is All There Is…
“And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are 400 men with him.” 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. . . . He thought, “If Esau attacks one group, perhaps the other can escape.” 9 And Jacob said, “O…
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(30) Getting to the God’s Will . . .
Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm … Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. ~ Jonah 1:15, 17 ~ If something is God’s will, then that will come about in…
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(29) Is God For Me?
… If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? … ~ Romans 8:31 Suppose you set out to take care of some project. The first thing that happens…
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(28) On Travelling Light
“ . . . let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith” (Heb. 12:1-2). You’ve got to travel light. Every once in a while, life becomes…
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(27) Rolling Your Works on to the Lord
~ In Greek mythology, there is a story about a king named Sisyphus who is cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, and no sooner than he gets it up there, than does it roll its way back down. Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established (Proverbs 16:3). …
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(5′) Knowing vs. Teaching | Bezalel & Oholiab
~ In the book of Exodus, we find mentioned, two artists par excellent. These are Bezalel and Oholiab. One place among many that you can read about them is Exodus 35:30-35, 30 Then Moses said to the Israelites, “See, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of…
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(4′) Two Kings, Two Outcomes
“And Jehoshaphat said … ‘O our God, will you not judge them, for there is no power in us before this great multitude that is coming against us. Now we do not know what we shall do, for our eyes are upon you.’ … Then the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jahaziel … And he…
The Dew and the Rain 