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How to be Happy

How to be Happy

How happy are those who dwell in Your house! Continually they are praising You. Psalm 84:4. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.” Psalm 122:1. Today your LORD (יהוה) God says: Happy are they who dwell in My house, their mouths are full...

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Today is the Day of Salvation

Today is the Day of Salvation

For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering (dazzling, glowing, radiant) heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.” Isaiah 18:4. Today your LORD (הוה) God says: Make today and everyday...

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How to Know You Heard from God

How to Know You Heard from God

Someone may say to you, “Let’s ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do.” But shouldn’t people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead? Isaiah 8:19....

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Divine Providence is Jesus

Divine Providence is Jesus

Oh, the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him...

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Anointed – Entrusted with a Divine Commission

Anointed – Entrusted with a Divine Commission

“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the favorable year of the LORD.” Luke...

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Mutual Trust Means Mutual Love

Mutual Trust Means Mutual Love

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6. You saw how the LORD your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you...

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The Violent Take It By Force

The Violent Take It By Force

For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17. From the days of John the Baptist until now the...

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Christ in You, Your Hope of Glory

Christ in You, Your Hope of Glory

Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the prudent took oil in...

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The Glory Cloud

The Glory Cloud

It came about as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. Exodus 16:10. The glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six...

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Secure and Safe in the Place of Grace

Secure and Safe in the Place of Grace

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled. Hebrews 12:14-15. Today your LORD (יהוה)...

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The Dividing Line

The Dividing Line

Enoch lived sixty-five years and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch...

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Debts Gone By the Sacrifice of His Son

Debts Gone By the Sacrifice of His Son

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and...

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Unless the Grain of Wheat Falls to the Ground and Dies

Unless the Grain of Wheat Falls to the Ground and Dies

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his soul (psuché) loses it, and he who hates his soul (psuché)  in this world (kosmos) will keep it to life (zóé)...

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Spirit Breathed into New Life

Spirit Breathed into New Life

You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. Psalm 104:30. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17. “Grant that Your bond-servants may...

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