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Day 7 Brotherly Love?
Genesis 4:6-7 (NIV) 6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is … Continue reading
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Day 4 Who’s your Daddy?
Genesis 1:26-27 (NIV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild … Continue reading
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Day 6 I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! (The Blame Game!)
Genesis 3 Selected 1Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”…. 9 But … Continue reading
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Day 5 Take a Break!
Genesis 2: 1-3 (NIV) Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his … Continue reading
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Day 3 What did you say?
Genesis 1:3-4 (NKJV) 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. Words are powerful! Once released, they take on a … Continue reading
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Day 2 Where did this all start?
Genesis 1:1-2 (NKJV) The History of Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering … Continue reading
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Day 1 Who Loves ya?
John 3:16New King James Version (NKJV) 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. I grew up in a negative home. Don’t get … Continue reading
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What’s the story?
My Church has decided to go through The Story and asked me to write Devotionals to go with it as we enter this study of the Bible. So here is an introduction as to what you will be seeing for … Continue reading
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Politically or Biblically Correct; You Decide!
1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (NKJV) 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom … Continue reading
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How will I get through this?
Psalm 18:18-19, 25 (NKJV) 18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my support. 19 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me…..25 With the merciful You will … Continue reading
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No Need to go Through It Alone!
Deuteronomy 31:8 (NKJV) 8 And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.” Many times, we go through challenges thinking … Continue reading
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Under New Management!
Ephesians 4:20-32 20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows … Continue reading
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Prayer Matters!
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) 14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and … Continue reading
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I’m always on time!
Habakkuk 2:3 (NKJV) 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. God’s … Continue reading
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Failure Is Not Final!
Haggai 2:19 (NKJV) 19 Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’” Failure to plant the seed … Continue reading
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Unmerited Favor!
James 4:6 (NKJV) 6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Grace is unmerited favor. You don’t deserve it, you can never earn it and you can never pay the … Continue reading
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What do you see?
Isaiah 58:10 (NKJV) 10 If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday. Do you see widows and orphans? James 1:27 … Continue reading
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Keep the Dream Alive!
Psalm 37:4 (NKJV) 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. Does this verse mean that God will give you whatever you desire? At first glance, it looks like God will give … Continue reading
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He is with you!
Jeremiah 15:20 ESV And I will make you to this people [Judah] a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, … Continue reading
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Happy Hour!
Psalm 139:17-19 (MSG) 17-19 Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live … Continue reading
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Blessed to Be a Blessing!
John 15:5-8 (NKJV) 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast … Continue reading
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Are you close?
Psalm 138:6 (NKJV) 6 Though the Lord is on high, Yet He regards the lowly; But the proud He knows from afar. How does God view you? Does He know you from afar or are you in a relationship? God and … Continue reading
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I Hate This Job!
Colossians 3:23 (NKJV) 23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, Many people don’t like their jobs. Zig Ziglar told a story about a woman with whom he met that hated her job … Continue reading
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Head to Heart to Head!
Deuteronomy 8:2 “You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep … Continue reading
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Wrapped in Righteousness!
Isaiah 61:10 (NKJV) 10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom … Continue reading
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Why won’t You answer my prayers?
John 14:13-14 (NKJV) 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. God says that whatever you ask … Continue reading
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Are you going to or being the Church?
James 2:14-27 (NKJV) 14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you … Continue reading
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Return to Me and I will return to you!
Zechariah 1:3 (NKJV) 3 Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. Zechariah had returned from Babylon to Judah and … Continue reading
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There’s Still a Chance!
Hebrews 4:1-3 (NKJV) Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but … Continue reading
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Who are you in Christ?
You are awesome! You are made in the image and likeness of God. You can do all things through Him who gives you strength. Joel Osteen’s Church has an opening statement for their worship services. It says “This is my … Continue reading
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Wag Your Tail and Not Your Tongue!
Galatians 5:14-15 (NKJV) 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! Many people … Continue reading
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