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"Call to me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." (Jeremiah 33:3 ESV)"Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear." (Isaiah 65:24 ESV)We sing this in church occasionally: "The answers...
"Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His Name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness. The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters....
"In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above Him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he...
"We love because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19 ESV)"So now faith, hope and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." (1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV)I was sitting here last night trying to figure what to write about. I had a lot of ideas and tried to...
"For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways." (Psalm 91:11 ESV)"Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?" (Hebrews 1:14. ESV)I was raised in a the First Pentecostal...
"Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners and purify your hearts, you double minded." (James 4:8 ESV)"Call to me and I will answer you and I will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." (Jeremiah 33:3 ESV)Have...
"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." (Eph. 4:32 ESV) I live in a poor part of the country. Most people around here can’t afford a new car and struggle to keep their old cars running. The worn, mountain roads too...
"'No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,' declares the Lord." (Isaiah 54:17 NIV)I remembered when my son, Thomas, was a...
I felt kind of bad, really. While we lounged on a beautiful tropical beach in Grenada, our family and friends back home were undergoing a major winter storm so severe that the schools were closed and my mother's personal support service that helps her bathe and dress...
"Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from distress." (Psalm 107:6 ESV) "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." (Galatians 5:1 ESV)I think we all know what parasites are....
"But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. ... I did not say these things to...
"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8. ESV)"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." (1 Timothy 2:20 ESV) It's been a cloudy for a few days. Not much...
"The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And He led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were...