Category: Devotional
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Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, ‘Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ This is desert. So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet.”
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in DevotionalACTS 8:26-28 PONDER THIS God never leaves a fully surrendered, cleansed vessel unused. You want to be used? Would you like to be a witness? Would you like to be […]
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Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.’”
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in DevotionalDEUTERONOMY 6:4-9 PONDER THIS We are called to live for Christ no matter what it costs. You cannot compromise with obedience. This is inflexible obedience—when we obey God no matter […]
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And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.”
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in DevotionalACTS 5:40-42 PONDER THIS Don’t get the idea that the will of God is something you have to do; God’s not going to force it on you. The will of […]
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For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.”
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in DevotionalCOLOSSIANS 1:9-12 PONDER THIS Are you excited about truth? I had dinner with someone recently, and that person leaned over the table, and he said to me, “Pastor, what new […]
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“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
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in DevotionalISAIAH 55:8-9 PONDER THIS How many of you would like the Spirit of glory and God to rest on you? How many of you want a fiery trial? Many of […]
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My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
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in DevotionalJAMES 1:2-5 PONDER THIS Somebody wrote these little words we often quote: “I walked a mile with Pleasure; she chatted all the way; but left me none the wiser for […]
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Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.”
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in DevotionalEPHESIANS 5:1-2 PONDER THIS We often dislike trouble, but trouble may bring a deepening dependency on God. The Apostle Paul was a highly gifted man. God had poured much grace, […]
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But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand. Do not be furious, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever; indeed, please look—we all are Your people!”
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in DevotionalISAIAH 64:8-9 PONDER THIS How do we seek God’s face? There is the prayer that recognizes God’s sovereignty. We have to believe God is God. Verse 8 means, “Lord, You’re […]
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Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence—as fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence! When You did awesome things for which we did not look, You came down, the mountains shook at Your presence.”
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in DevotionalISAIAH 64:1-3 PONDER THIS Revival is when God comes down. Look in verse one, “Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might […]
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Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
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in DevotionalACTS 4:10-12 PONDER THIS Solomon’s temple was built without the ring of hammers and the sound of chisels at the worksite. The stones were designed, and the specifications were sent […]