Category: Mercy
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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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Complete.
Psalms 19 starts out with creation declaring the glory of God God reveals Himself in all He has created. 1 The heavens declare the glory of God,and the expanse proclaims the work of his hands. Psalm 19:1 Some of us can testify to experiencing and seeing some of God’s greatest work here on…
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Joyless Living
Restore the joy of your salvation to me, and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit. Psalm 51:12 We covered most of this Psalm is a previous post: Restoration. This is a psalm of David. He is asking God to restore the joy of salvation. He had committed some…
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No Peace for the Wicked
There has been a major change over the last two years. My level of tiredness has decreased to a level of zero. I actually sleep and get rest at night. When I wake up, I am renewed in my strength and ready to go. I used to have dark circles under my eyes and…
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Redemption: a gift.
Ruth is my all time favorite story of God’s Redemption in our lives. I have written a small series on the book of Ruth: Decisions that Determine the DestinyGod’s Amazing GraceGet CloserThe Happy Ending, Don’t you want it? Today, we are going to focus on God’s promising of renewal and redemption. This…
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The Breath of Re-creation
Psalm 104 is a beautiful song about the Lord our God as Creator. From Him all life is breathed. The CSB uses the word breath here. Other translations use the word spirit. The actual Hebrew word is, rûaḥ, and means Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal,…
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Restoration
First, lets break the 10 verse down. The Psalmist is asking God for a clean heart. Notice the psalmist says, God create in me. He gives acknowledgement that a clean heart comes from God. Only from God can we find the cleansing of our hearts. There’s nothing on this earth that can cleanse…
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Always putting on the New Self
In other Bible translations, “new man” is the phrase used. Paul, many times, says put on the new self. When we put on the new self we are renewed in the knowledge of the image of our creator. Our scripture today starts out with and…. There is something missing to the context…
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Youthful Vigor
When we read the account of Job, we know that four of his friends came to preach over him about why he was in the state he was in. Job and his friends judged his sickness as God was angry with him. The last, Elihu, was telling Job, sometimes God will afflict…
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Endurance at any Age
Paul starts this passage of scripture with therefore, do not give up…. If we know anything about how Paul writes, the “therefore” means because of ….. do not give up. What is Paul telling us? Let us back up to verse 7 and the following: Now we have this treasure…
It Starts Small 