Category: Devotional
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“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 6:3-4 Ponder This So many of us rely on whether we feel victorious to know whether we’re living a new life. The problem is, our feelings are the shallowest […]
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“Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?’”
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in DevotionalMATTHEW 16:24-26 PONDER THISHere’s the first step in possessing your possessions: learn dying and start living. That’s not contradictory. We must start by dying to the old ways. A cross […]
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Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.”
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in DevotionalJOSHUA 1:3-5 PONDER THISRemember that when the children of Israel came out of Egypt, they were going into Canaan; they were coming out of the land of bondage into the […]
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“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”
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in DevotionalROMANS 6:1-2 PONDER THISThe Bible says we not only died with Jesus, but we were also buried with Jesus. That’s because Jesus carried our sins into the grave of God’s […]
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“Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 5:20-21 PONDER THISThere was a little boy who came down the aisle at church to give his heart to Jesus Christ, and the pastor wanted to make sure the […]
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“Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.”
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in DevotionalROMANS 5:18-19 PONDER THISSuppose you’d never seen a train, but one day I take you to see a train wreck. The cars are all tumbled over; the steam is rising […]
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“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.”
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in DevotionalJOHN 15:16 PONDER THISWhat’s the mark of a man of God? One primary piece of evidence is that plenty of people out there know Jesus because of him. Those people […]
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“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”
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in DevotionalMATTHEW 7:15-20 PONDER THISJesus starts this passage by calling false prophets “ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7:15). Then He explains we can know who the wolves are by their fruit. In verse […]
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“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall. And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.”
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in DevotionalMATTHEW 7:26-29 PONDER THISThere are millions of people sitting in churches that are going to die and go to Hell because there has never been a change in their lives. […]
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“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.”
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in DevotionalMATTHEW 7:24-25 PONDER THISThere are two things necessary for a firm foundation: hearing and heeding the Word of God. That’s where we begin to separate the rock builders from the […]