By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau regarding their future. Hebrews 11:20 Have you found a healthy and non-dysfunctional family in the bible? Please let me know if you have and where it is in the Bible. Read Genesis 27 and Hebrews 11:20. How is Paul gives a testimony of the faith of Isaac? What is it? How can this situation result in a commendation for Isaac’s faith? Isaac gave his sons a blessing. Jacob tricked his father into granting him the blessing to be given to Esau, the firstborn. Have you ever wondered why Isaac didn’t take it back since he was tricked?…
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Love Of God
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need – how can God’s love reside in him? Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action. This is how we will know we belong to the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence, … 1 John 3:16-19 How did your grandparents or parents show their love for one another? I was lucky to have grandparents and…
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Seeking Him More
I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men. Acts 24:16 Today we are going to read Romans 2:12-16, Hebrews 9:11-14, 1 Peter 3:13-17, and 1 John 3:19-24. For as many, as have sinned without law will also perish without the law, and as many, as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the…
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When Adjustments Are Necessary
Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot by my disciple. Luke 14:33 Have you ever want to do what God asked you to do, but didn’t want to make any adjustments in your life? We want God to speak to us and ask us to do things for him. However, we don’t want to make any major adjustments in our lives though. When God spoke to the people in the Bible about what He wanted to do through them, they needed to make some adjustments in their lives. They had to adjust their lives to God. When those adjustments happened, God accomplished His purposes through…
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True Faith That Requires Action
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” James 2:26 When our action doesn’t show our faith, our faith is dead. Our true faith requires us to have action. By your actions, do you have true faith? Let’s read Hebrews 11. Abel offered God a better sacrifice . By faith he was approved as a righteous man. He speaks through his faith. By faith Enoch was taken away so he did not experience death. God took him away. Without faith it is impossible to please God. By faith Noah built an ark. He was warned what was yet not seen and motivated by godly…
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Love An Action
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his need – how can God’s love reside in him? Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action. This is how we will know we belong to the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence, … 1 John 3:16-19 How did your grandparents or parents show their love for one another? I was lucky to have grandparents and…
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Put Our Praise To Action
oh, give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the people! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! 1 Chronicles 16: 8-9 Read 1 Chronicles 16:7-43 Do you call upon God‘s name? Do you make known his deeds among others? Do you let God know if his wondrous work? This portion of scripture is a composite A psalm 105: 1-15; 96:1-13;106:1,47-48. Take a moment and read these verses. What is repeated? David use this type of praise and thanksgiving to celebrate God’s mercy and wonderful acts for Israel. Christians, today and in the New Testament, or…
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Mother’s Day
Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 Happy Mother’s Day!! I couldn’t wait to be a mother when I was a little girl. It’s all I wanted to be. Years later, I am married with two step children and 5 adopted children. God has blessed me abundantly. Not that there were no tears to be shed because there were many. Mother’s Day can be a day that is hard for many women. The women that can’t have a child of their own and adoption is not possible. There is an emptiness. Women that don’t have a mother to celebrate with. There is…