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Beth Moore

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10 Feb

You don’t have to have a theology degree, you don’t have to be ordained, you don’t have to work at a church or ministry, you don’t have to leave your house, you don’t have to be young, you don’t have to be old, you don’t have to money, social media influence or special permission

to serve -to be of incalculable use- in one of the most desperately needed, deeply wanted & biblically sanctioned ways on earth: praying for people. Several years ago, we started opening the doors at living proof at the Tuesday noon hour for anyone who needed prayer. We literally

put out an old school sign “Need prayer?” on the side of the road by our building. And people came. Thus began one of the most grounding, holy things we’ve ever done in the existence of living proof ministries. We’ve had to go to phones and zooms during this pandemic but it only

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Beth Moore

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5 Feb

I was thinking this morning about trauma. I was thinking about the after effects. The aftershocks. How you tell your mind to move on and that all is OK now but your body refuses to believe you. If you are in a particularly tender or easily triggered place, don’t read this thread.

We live on acreage that I walk with my dogs no less than two or three times a day. Before work, after work. If I work at home, we take a break at noon & also walk then. We live on these acres. No way to escape them and, truly, we don’t want to. We love it here. It’s our home.

But there is a spot I cannot avoid where, 2 years ago, our dearly loved, constantly coddled bird dog chased deer through a thicket to a neighbor’s property & was met by coyotes. It all happened in my and Melissa‘s hearing. It was terrifying. It never occurred to us it was her.

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Beth Moore

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3 Feb

People of Christ, place your faith in Christ. Take all that energy being burned up by fear & trade it for real, live gospel-taught, blood-bought FAITH. Faith is not some flimsy thing. It is no passive acquiescence to “there’s nothing we can do.” It is “having done all, to stand.”

It is “holding unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” We’re swerving all over the road. Pull over on to the shoulder, stop the car & ask God to help you get a grip. Stop blaming everybody & start looking to Jesus.

Pore over 1 Peter 1:3-9 & see His objectives. “Such trials show the proven character of your faith which is much more valuable than gold—gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away—and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” He means

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Beth Moore

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2 Feb

Ezekiel 47, the final & among the most fascinating visionary narratives given to the prophet.

“Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple & there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the temple faced east. (always always East)

...He measured off a third of a mile & led me through the water. It came up to my ankles. Then he measured off a third of a mile and led me through the water. It came up to my knees. He measured off another third of a mile and led me through the water. It came up to my waist.

Again he measured off a third of a mile & it was a river that I could not cross on foot. For the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed. He asked me, ‘Do you see this, son of man?’ ... I saw a very large number of trees along both sides

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Beth Moore

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1 Feb

Made it to Ezekiel 43 in my daily Bible reading today. Three chapters earlier, a lengthy visionary narrative regarding a new temple began with the hand of the Lord transporting the prophet to Jerusalem. He’s taken on a tour by “a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen

cord & a measuring rod in his hand.” The bronze-like man measures every inch of the structure—gates, walls, stairs, porches, rooms—& supplies the figures to the prophet to report to the exiles. Shows him every detail from the decorations on the jambs to the hooks for sacrifices.

It’s quite tedious reading but the significance is impossible to miss. Perhaps what I love most of all about the study of Scripture—besides the life & work of the Spirit within it—is the cohesion. The major themes continue throughout. Here Ezekiel is depicted as a Moses of sorts.

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Beth Moore

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31 Jan

It’s the most gorgeous morning in Houston. Blue and breezy and just a little bit chilly. As I walk my dogs before church this morning, I’m meditating on Phil 1. So I thought to remind you, “I am SURE of this: that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion

until the Day of Christ Jesus.” This is no mere hope I speak to you from Scripture this morning. It’s certainty. He’s not done. You’re not done. Not if you’re in Christ. He hasn’t forgotten. He hasn’t moved on without you. God finishes what he starts. When I’m filled with angst

or doubt, disappointment, frustration, failure of nerve, writer’s block or whatever & I need desperately to redirect my thoughts, I am greatly helped by making confessions straight from Scripture that are the antithesis of my natural, faithless thoughts. Phil 1:6 is one of them.

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