I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect […]
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Behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon–possessed.” Matthew 15:22 My dad’s sermon startled me. I have been scanning files into the computer over the last years and so there are about 30 files
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Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. … Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death? … Tell Me, if you know all this. Job 38:4,17-18 A Louise Allen Harris wrote about
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Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price. Isaiah 55:1 Virginia Burke, a chaplain at the Good Samaritan Society assisted living facilities, once wrote in a devotion on this passage: One Sunday morning, Karl
For you are a Holy People to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a People for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number
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Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, and His Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides Me there is no god.‘ Isaiah 44:6 When Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, was a university student, he lived in a boarding house.
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For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return
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Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. Matthew 10:34 The pronouncement made by Jesus is dramatic. It really catches us off guard. The angels sang at the first Christmas, “Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to
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But the LORD is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten. But, O LORD of hosts, You Who test the righteous, and see the mind and heart, let me
For when we were still helplessly feeble, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly… while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through
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