I am coming soon! —Revelation 22:12 You ate at each other’s table. You talked over the backyard fence. You went places together. You laughed and cried with one another. Then one day you blinked back tears as you watched a moving van taking your friend away. The agony of absence is intensified when it has […]
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Having been justified by his grace. —Titus 3:7 Just think of it! You have been justified—proclaimed innocent; declared righteous. “How can that be?” you ask; “I have sinned.” Yes you have. “All have sinned,” Paul wrote … but then rushed on to
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Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. —John 13:17 Is your “do” as good as your “know”? It’s one thing to “know” what you should do; quite another thing to “do” it. Some scriptures wait on you
There are different kinds of gifts. —1 Corinthians 12:4 In Rom. 12:6 Paul says, “We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.” He names some of these gifts, and with each appends a pithy punch line about what to do with it … If
Not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. —Matthew 6:29 On July 25, 2010, the corpse flower (it emits the stench of rotting flesh) came into bloom at the Houston Museum of Natural Science—only the 29th time that had happened in
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God intended it for good. —Genesis 50:20 “Every experience God gives us is preparation for the future that only he can see,” said Corrie ten Boom. Coming from Corrie, that’s a sentence worth listening to—she was the only member of her family to survive the Nazi death camps. “I wouldn’t have chosen the
People avoided her. Thought she was whacko. She claimed that she and Jesus talked one-on-one every night; said he told her about the shenanigans of people who thought their secrets were … well, secret. Someone told her she should validate these alleged conversations by asking her minister if she was really talking with Jesus or
HAPPY NEW YEAR He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine. —Ephesians 3:20 This year instead of grabbing your remote and starting your days with negative news, talk to your Father and start your days with positive prospects. In the morning, O Lord,
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Trust in the Lord … lean not on your own understanding. —Proverbs 3:5 If God threw the following at you, how would you answer … You believe in me when everything is going right. Would you still trust me if everything was going wrong? You believe in me when
I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. —Psalm 5:3 Expectations tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies … If you expect to be mistreated, you probably will be—or think you are. If you expect to dislike a person, you likely will. If you expect people to be hostile, that’s what
