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Look to Give, not to Get
Scripture: Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.” Luke 6:38 (NLT) Observation: Bosom The gathered fold of the wide upper garment, bound together…
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Like A Kiss
Scripture: An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship. Proverbs 24:26 (NLT) Observation: Kiss his lips. This verse reads literally, “He will kiss the lips who returns a right answer.” When a king, ruler, or judge speaks just words they are as pleasant to right-thinking people as a kiss. [The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary,…
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The Dangers of Criticism
Scripture: (Num 14:1-2 NKJV) So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. {2} And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died…
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The Rest We Need
Scripture: Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:28-29 (NLT) Observation: Come unto…
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I Lay Me Down
Scripture: I lay down and slept, yet I woke up in safety, for the LORD was watching over me. Psalm 3:5 (NLT) Observation: I laid me down. The pronoun “I” is emphatic. David represents himself as in danger of attack at any moment during the night, hunted and cursed by his enemies, nevertheless able to…
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God Covers
Scripture: For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me. Jonah 2:3 (NKJV) Observation: Salvation is of the LORD. The core of this prayer celebrates God’s miraculous intervention to rescue Jonah by a fish. At the end…
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He Understands!
Scripture: Jesus understands every weakness of ours, because he was tempted in every way that we are. But he did not sin! So whenever we are in need, we should come bravely before the throne of our merciful God. There we will be treated with undeserved kindness, and we will find help. Hebrews 4:15-16 (CEV)…
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He Can Hold it Together
Scripture: GodÕs Son has all the brightness of God's own glory and is like him in every way. By his own mighty word, he holds the universe together. After the Son had washed away our sins, he sat down at the right side of the glorious God in heaven. Hebrews 1:3 (CEV) Observation: Upholding. Gr.…
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In Quietness and Confidence
Scripture: For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not." (Isaiah 30:15 NKJV) Observation: In returning and rest. The only hope of Judah was to turn from evil back to God. In doing…
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The Challenges of Inter-cultural Marriages
Scripture: Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. (Numbers 12:1 NKJV) Observation: If we were to read the second verse isolated from the first, we might wonder if Aaron and Miriam’s complaints may have some justification – although there…
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