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There Are No Private Conversations

MATTHEW 12:36 – I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  THERE ARE NO PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS. First, let’s establish something very important.  Our speech, the quality of our words spoken, is one of the most accurate and clearest measuring tools of our spiritual condition. We may be as…

Motivated to Abound in the Lord’s Work

1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-58  – I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the…

The Willing Heart of the Lord Jesus

MARK 1:40–42 – And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  THE WILLING HEART…

The 24/7 Christian

  HEBREWS 4:11–13 – Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And…

The Gentleness of Jesus

MATTHEW 12:15-21 – Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all and ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and…

Where God Wants to Take Us

PSALM 62:1-8 – For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position.…