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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…
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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…
The Dew and the Rain 