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Glorious Saturday Here is a special motivational word of encouragement for you that was in my heart as I slept through the night. It is an image of you as a stone on the ground. The LORD picks you up and throws you into Divine Lake (an actual lake right here in my home city of Leander). The net

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Fearfully Behold, I surrender to You Lord. For You created me to think… to know and to worship You… to be one with You, and to be one with Your Body (Your beloved). You Lord, have given me gifts and passions and great power with my words, hands and time. With all of these things,

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Inspiration This is the word of the Lord that came upon me last night and early this morning. As I laid down, He reminded me of the last verse in 2 Peter chapter 1 where Peter says that none of the scripture prophesy is by interpretation of man (although it was indeed written by men), but it

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More Thoughts on Being a Child of God Okay, in case you didn’t think that yesterday’s devotional was long enough, here are a few more thoughts.

As the day went on, I continued to ponder that devotional message and would like for you to consider a few more observations about God’s love. He loves us and wants us to

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Lost and Found – Really? Today’s devotional is a little complex, but alas, it is the theme that the LORD placed on my heart when He woke me this morning. It relates to a recent conversation about our ability to have confidence in our salvation. It involves two famous parables that Jesus told to

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The Blessing of Being Still – God’s Peace in Storms This is the theme the LORD showed me this morning. There is a profound blessing waiting for us when we come to that place of true surrender. It’s the haven where we stop trying to figure out why things are happening around us or how we can fix them. It’s where we stop trying to

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Being Clean Until the End Hebrews chapter 10 ends with a reminder for us all of the promise that is associated with being really clean. Once Jesus cleans us, it means that we have been cleaned until the end when He comes to get us. However, that promise does not mean there won’t be days of difficulty,

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Truly Clean or Fools Gold? In the devotional message from yesterday, I cautioned about the tendency that we all have to fool ourselves about our cleanliness and thinking that we can fool God. This next section of chapter 10 is a stern, yet loving reminder to caution us not to make this mistake.

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Being Really Clean - What Are the Implications? If we have really been cleaned, what does that imply? What happens next? Well, the first implication is understanding that we truly are clean. As mentioned earlier in this chapter (indeed in this entire book as you will soon see), there is only *ONE* way that we can be cleaned…

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Being Clean – Really Clean – 3 As He did throughout His life and ministry, Jesus continues today to give an example to you and to me of the way to live a life that pleases God. Like His, our lives can be lives of ultimate victory even though along the journey there are a lot of mistakes, calamities, chaos and

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Being Clean – Really Clean – 2 Although God established the sacrificial offering system in the law as a way for the people to atone for their sins, it was never intended to be the ultimate solution. As we see in today’s verses, the earthly efforts and blood sacrifices by the people could never really cleanse

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Being Clean – Really Clean - 1 The book of Hebrews paints a picture for the Jews of the stark difference between the Old and New Testaments. Under the law of the Old Testament, rigid procedures were established for the children of Israel to offer periodic sacrifices to God through the priests. These acts were

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The Thing That Truly Satisfies – Where Do We Find It? We spend our lives roaming around from place to place and from activity to activity in desperate search for things that bring us satisfaction. They may be temporary and physical like food or deeply emotional. Sadly, what we discover in this world is that nothing truly satisfies

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LORD, Help Our Unbelief These were the closing words of my devotionals yesterday morning. Before the morning was over, the LORD placed this theme on my heart in a way that was so powerful that I came home and started to write notes about it. Then He said to wait. Early this morning He put the finishing

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Light and Darkness – The Battle for Control Rages The spiritual battle continues to rage all around us today. As He awoke me this morning, the LORD showed me once again how everything that is happening around us today is so very important and is communicating an urgent message. It is a battle of light against darkness… pride

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Still More on Separation Today’s message was inspired by several events this week. In a past bible study of Job, our discussion question about God contained a trick component. We discussed if it was possible for sin to ever separate the children of God from Him. On the surface, it seems obvious that it

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Man’s High Places and Self-Worship versus God’s Promises Today’s message is a continuation of the one from yesterday with the theme about how we have always struggled with the idea of idol worship since the new beginning. That idolatry continues to plague us today and shows itself when we place our views or opinions (calling them

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Seeds of Pride – Words of Warning Today we will take a look at a famous landmark in the bible. I call it a landmark because it is cited as a reference in several places throughout the bible in both the Old and New Testaments (including a LOT in the book of Revelation). This should get our attention.

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A Song of Confidence from Our Father in Heaven These are words this morning about fear and discouragement. When things on the outside seem to be falling apart and I may arrive at points where I wonder what else is going to go wrong, I have this song, a concert of truth from the Word of God.

“The Lord is my light and my

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The Battle between Two Kingdoms – Very Real Today The LORD has been showing me throughout this night about indicators and signs that are all around us today that are highlighting a historic and epic battle that is taking place. He has once again reminded me about the power of what we sometimes think of as coincidence, but which

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More on the Difference Between Being Pulled and Guided:
All In - Everything or Nothing at All For several days now, we have been looking at real separation and what causes it. We looked at the separation of the two kingdoms of this world and also the very real separation of the people within it. This is an important principle that the bible describes in detail from