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What Would We Ask For

MATTHEW 7:7-11 – “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?…

Leave Tomorrow Alone

MATTHEW 6:34 – “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” THEME OF THE DAY: LEAVE TOMORROW ALONE.   Today’s scripture is the conclusion of a lengthy portion of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount dealing with the topic of anxiety.  If you fight against this mental, emotional, and spiritual…

Salt Of The Earth

MATTHEW 5:13 – “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” THEME OF THE DAY: SALT OF THE EARTH.  The theme of the day is one of the roles of God’s people in…

Bring Them To Jesus

JOHN 1:35-42 – “Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”  The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.  And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated…

When We Are Tempted To Complain

MATTHEW 27:27-32 – “Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him. They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him,…