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(26) Taking From the Lord vs. Receiving From the World ~ (Part 2)
~ This is a tentative post. I still need to think this through. So there is taking from the world and there is receiving from the devil and there is receiving from God. If God gives you something, then that something will be satisfying. If you take that exact same something from the world or…
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(25) Psalm 22 & Self-Deprecation
Psalm 22:6 – “But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.”Psalm 139:14 – “I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” I thought that I had finally found a Psalm with self-deprecation, viz. Psalm 22:6, but as I analyzed it, I saw that I was…
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(24) You Can And You Cannot Change Your Length of Life
“Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.” ~ Job 14:5 ~ God has set a limit on the number of years of life that you will live. You will not live less than nor more than that limit.…
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(23) Taking From the Lord vs. Receiving From the World ~ Jacob’s All-Nighter (Part 1)
“So Jacob was left alone, and a Man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the Man saw that He could not overpower him, He touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the Man. Then the Man said, ‘Let me go, for it is daybreak.’ But Jacob…
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(22) Filling Out Providence without Passivity or Presumption
“So, I went out at night…” (Nehemiah 2:13a).“After an all-night march from Gilgal, …” (Joshua 10:9a). ~ Nehemiah got some bad news about the city of Jerusalem being in ruins and prayed about it. Then he took up the matter with the king, praying even as he did, and got green signals to head to…
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(21) George Müller & Praying for Small Things
~ The following is an excerpt from George Müller on praying for small things: “A Christian lady said, lately, that thirty-five years ago she heard me speak on this subject in Devonshire; and that then I referred to praying about little things. I had said, that suppose a parcel came to us, and it should…
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(3′) Prayer’s Expectant Eyes ~ Part 2
~ What follows are some notes from George Müller’s autobiography The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord’s Dealings With George Müller. It is on the same theme that I have blogged on before, to wit, the expectancy we ought to exercise subsequent to prayer. To you I lift up my eyes, O…
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(20) Flipping the Script
21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send…
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(19) Psalm 104 & the Bare Minimum
“…wine that gladdens the human heart, oil to make faces glow, and bread to sustain their hearts.” ~ Psalm 104:15 (CJB) In ancient Israel, bread was the staple of life — the everyday must-have. Without it, survival was impossible. Wine and oil, however, were not essentials; they were gifts of joy, beauty, and celebration. God…
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(2′) Prayer’s Expectant Eyes ~ Part 1
~ I find Psalm 5:3 to be interesting because it is not simply about praying, but it is also about how we are to watch and wait subsequent to praying. “In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly” (Psalm 5:3, NIV). O Yahweh, in the morning,…
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(1′) The Final Word Is Profit
~ In the above verse, when Isaiah uses the word profit, he is not speaking in a business sense. That is to say, he is not discussing say net profit or ROI. ~ What Isaiah is talking about is something much larger and deeper. He is talking about flourishing and this in many ways such…
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