Category: God’s Principles
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What is your Integrity and Honor Worth?
This blog series emphasizes the pursuit of righteousness over wealth and prosperity. It highlights the value of integrity and making righteous choices, even if it means having little wealth. The message is to prioritize God’s ways and moral values over material gain, emphasizing that integrity and righteousness are invaluable.
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Two Directions.
We make our lives complicated. This verse expresses and explains the simplicity of God. All of God’s principles and expectations are simple, but we like to “human” things up as I say. We complicate and nit pick, pick apart everything God has to say and respond… but God?!? Paul lays it out as…
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Seeing Double?
If you have been following along the January 2024 Scripture Writing Plan: His Mercies are New, you might think I made a mistake. Did we not just read this verse, yesterday? Sort of, but not really. When God speaks something more than once, I believe it is important to sit up…
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Heart Transplant of Transformation.
God is going to restore His people. This is the theme throughout Jerimiah and Ezekiel. God promises to renew us by restoring us. In today’s scripture He promises a full on heart transplant! God promises us that He will change us from the inside out. This promise is referred to as the promise of…
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Approved.
One of the greatest insecurities most of us suffer is approval. We seek the approval of those around us. We seek our spouses approval. We seek the approval of our children, our boss, our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. We seek it from our friends, family, and the world. We desire deep down for…
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Rain that Renews
Hosea was one of the minor prophets. This does not make the book of Hosea lessor because it is shorter. Interestingly, Hosea’s name means “salvation,” and it is appropriate for the book of Hosea. Hosea was possibly one of two prophets writing from the northern tribe of Israel (Jonah was the other). Hosea was…
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The Power of a Spoken Word that is Written.
This is such an amazing scripture of encouragement! Let us look at verse 27 with it. We are going to look at the KJV of these verses because there’s an important word to focus on: 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,27 That…
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Grieving Sin
Lamentations is a short five chapter book. The author is not written, but many scholars believe it is the Prophet Jerimiah. If you have read the book of Jeremiah, you can see the similarities in the author’s personality through their writing. Jeremiah was a man who grieved sin. Not just his won, but the…
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Prophesy of a Virgin Birth
Long before the angel ever visited Mary, Isaiah prophesized of a baby born from a virgin. A first glance, this seems like a strange detail in the Christmas story, but it is an important detail. Did Jesus have to be born from a virgin? YES! The prophecy and fulfillment of…
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Transformation
When you have come to that point to realize God is indeed in control, you have “arrived.” So do we do nothing but sit back and watch God do His stuff? Not quite. Think of it in terms of a baby having been born. Are they at the end of…