Suffering

I Sure Would-A Been Peeved

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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Essential Job

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

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Prepared for Pentecost

Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His Glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.     I Peter 4:12-13 Many times In

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Not “Happy,” But “Blessed!”

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.                   Matthew 5:3 The comment was once made, that if you ask 10 third graders to form a straight line, the chances are great that nine of them will be at the front of the line, trying to be first.  And then the

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With Confidence, in Command with Jesus

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the Mountain of the House of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to

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To the Core of Being

“This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My People.     Jeremiah 31:33 In the same way, after the supper He took

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Their God, My People

“The time is coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new Covenant…This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My

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God in the Hands of Angry Sinners

While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man – though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die.  But God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  Since,

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He Works All Things Together For Good

And we know that He works all things together for good, for those who love God, for those who are called according to His purpose.    Romans 8:28   I asked God for strength, that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey … I asked for health, that I

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No Shadow, No Variableness, No Change

Every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with Whom there is no variableness nor shadow of turning.  Of His own Will He fathered us with the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.  James 1:17-18 [17-27] A little boy

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