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Hidden Treasure and Power – Conquerors Someone reading this message today (well, each of us) needs to be reminded about the reality of our battle. Our enemy is very much real and he does attack us everyday trying to get us to think we are without value, insignificant, and failures in the big picture. He (the enemy)

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The Blessings of Patience It does not matter, my brothers and sisters, what the situation may look like right now. When we see or experience problems in our lives (either health, financial/material, relational, emotional, and a host of others), we can know deep in our hearts and souls that those problems

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If You Love Me, Do What I Say Yesterday we talked about the two examples at the beginning of the book of Matthew where Joseph demonstrated how he listened in dreams to the voice of God and then followed up by taking definitive actions. By acting on what he heard from the voice of God, not only was Joseph

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God Removes Kings and Sets Up Kings – Another Tale of Two Kings Yesterday we looked at two kings from the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel (Saul and David). Today we will look at two kings from the beginning of the New Testament and see how God is once again always in control in the matters of kings (Daniel 2:21). We will also see another solid

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God Removes Kings and Sets Up Kings This morning the Lord woke me up with the reminder of His providential sovereignty and our tendency to try to get ahead of Him. He pointed me to the time when David had an opportunity to kill King Saul but chose not to do so. As I went back and read about this, I found that this

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The Important Choice to Turn Around In yesterday’s message, we looked at several examples in the Old Testament of the choices that the Lord had placed before the children of Israel, including His instructions through Moses at the end of Deuteronomy chapter 30. Today we will go back to that chapter and see what He

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The Consequences of Our Choices This morning the Lord woke me up with another picture of this epic battle that is raging all around us today. It is a biblical battle in that it has always been raging throughout the history of the bible since Genesis 3. It is a battle surrounding the choices that we make, the

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The Sword of the Spirit in Our Lives The Word of God is indeed alive and active in our lives. Hebrews 4:12 describes how it is a unique and powerful book that actually reads us (as opposed to us reading it). As we grow in our belief of the Lord and hunger for His Word everyday, we begin to notice this pattern of how

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The Law of the Harvest In the times in which we live today it is important for us all to remember and to understand the principle of the Law of the Harvest. It is found as illustrations all throughout the bible. We can also see it demonstrated all around us as the laws of nature (God’s perfect design

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Who Defines Who You Are In yesterday’s devotional, we looked at an encounter that Paul had with Peter in front of a group of people at the church of Galatia. Today I want to go back and drill into that encounter to examine another nugget of wisdom that we can draw from it. Yesterday I mentioned how at

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The Past Always Points to the Future in God’s Kingdom The theme that the Lord placed on my heart this morning once again points to an encounter that I had yesterday. It is a theme that we will see is repeated all throughout the bible. You see, God lives outside of time. He created it and is intricately using it to tell a story of

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Perfect Love and Fear This morning the Lord woke me up with an image of our nation’s current leaders looking into a camera recently and reassuring the people NOT to be afraid. He then placed this theme on my heart of how there is no fear in perfect love. The world shouts at us every day that we should

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No Worries As I awoke this morning, the Lord simply reminded me of yesterday. It was a day of several powerful prayer events and gatherings for me that confirmed this message. The overarching theme of the messages was that as children of God, our steps are indeed ordered (see

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Set Up for Failure During the Season of Harvest The general theme of the message that the Lord placed on my heart this morning is “What does it mean to be a Christian? What does it really mean to be a follower of Jesus?” Many of us will freely admit that we see signs all around us that we are living in very special days that

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Made for Community - We Need Each Other Sin and pride naturally drive us to all be self-focused. Without God’s help, we tend to live our lives focused on ourselves and we endeavor to build kingdoms based on our own desires and needs. In a room filled with people such as this, the ultimate result is inevitably

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Why Does Evil Exist? – Chasing the Wind Yesterday we saw how God tells us not to worry and not to try to figure everything out. He is in control, nothing happens that catches Him by surprise and there is nothing new under the sun. Things that are happening now as well as things that will happen in the future have all

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Trusting in the Lord At first glance, today’s devotional scripture can appear to be somewhat depressing. Even worse, it can seem like a message telling us that life right now is all that there is and that we should eat, drink and be merry because there is no purpose in any of this.

But in reality,

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The Significance of the Drink Offering Yesterday we looked at the importance of being lead by the Spirit of the Lord. In recent weeks we took a journey through the book of Leviticus chapter 23 with all of the appointed festivals and offerings to the Lord. Remember that these festivals and offerings were all analogies

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Why We Do What We Do James 2:26 says "For as the body without the Spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." These works (or actions that we do) do not in any way justify us to God or earn us anything. Quite the opposite, our works are an outward indicator and evidence of what we TRULY

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – All About Perspective This is somewhat of a continuation of yesterday’s devotional and other events. I label it with the term “somewhat” because although it is a continuation, this message actually came first. You see, over the years I have hosted weekly early-morning men’s bible studies where we did

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Cancel Culture and God’s Plan As I awoke this morning in prayer about a significant event that I have coming up today, the Lord pointed me to a specific and very familiar passage from Romans chapter 8. He showed me how it relates to our natural tendencies (and a popular movement in our nation today) to try to