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Post by jimpate on Feb 28, 2019 8:53:51 GMT -5
1 Peter 1:21
21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
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Post by Jim Pate on Mar 1, 2019 12:04:22 GMT -5
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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Post by Jim Pate on Mar 2, 2019 11:28:57 GMT -5
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 3, 2019 11:20:01 GMT -5
Ecclesiastes 5:2: Do not be quick with your mouth, do not be hasty in your heart to utter anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 4, 2019 11:59:55 GMT -5
2 Samuel 22:28
28 You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low
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Post by jimpate on Mar 5, 2019 9:56:02 GMT -5
2 Chronicles 7:14
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 6, 2019 17:09:01 GMT -5
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1%3A20-25&version=ESVASH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 CHRIST CRUCIFIED We preach Christ crucified…Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. — 1 Corinthians 1:23-24 Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten season. The word Lent derives from a Middle English word that means “springtime.” But this doesn’t mean Lent is a celebration of the annual renewal of nature caused by the tilt of the world’s axis. No, Lent is a celebration of the renewal of human life caused by the grace of God. I use the word celebration guardedly here, because Lent is not a joyful dance through a field of spring flowers. It is rather a season of solemn reflection and serious repentance that leads to spiritual renewal. It’s the time when we remember that such renewal depends on Christ crucified. People outside the Christian faith may wonder how we can celebrate a gruesome death that happened 2,000 years ago. It does sound ghoulish, unless Paul is right in 1 Corinthians 1, where he says that Christ is “the power of God and the wisdom of God.” As we focus today on the power and wisdom of God in the cross of Christ, our goal should be not merely to explain those mysterious ideas but also to apply the reality of God’s power and wisdom to our daily lives. Even as the renewal of nature in spring depends on the tilt of the earth, so the renewal of our spiritual lives depends on the cross. So during this Lenten season, we invite you to set aside time each day to reflect, repent and focus on the wonders of the cross. PRAYER: O crucified Christ, help me to experience the joy and peace of renewal that flows from your cross for my sake. Amen. --Written by Stan Mast
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Post by Jim Pate on Mar 7, 2019 10:03:16 GMT -5
Psalm 25:9
9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 8, 2019 11:21:17 GMT -5
FRIDAY, MARCH 8 Mark 15:25; Galatians 3:11-14 THE CURSE OF CRUCIFIXIONIt was nine in the morning when they crucified him. — Mark 15:25 Do you have a necklace or earrings in the shape of a cross? Or do you have a cross hanging somewhere in your house? A cross, as a symbol of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, can be a beautiful thing. But the crucifixion it represents was actually the most horrible of deaths in ancient times. Some victims hung for days in the scorching sun until finally the weight of their body, nailed at the hands and feet, collapsed their lungs. Any other death was preferable. Crucifixion was so horrible that it was inappropriate to mention it in polite conversation. No one imagined that the cross might become a religious symbol. Because of the cross, the early Christian apologist, Minucius Felix, wrote a dialogue called The Octavius in which his pagan character called Christianity a sick delusion. He said that anyone who worshiped a crucified person should himself be crucified. The Bible also talks about the horrors of crucifixion. The cross is called an offense (Galatians 5:11), a sign of shame (Hebrews 12:2), and foolishness and a stumbling block (1 Corinthians 1:23). Deuteronomy 21:23 states that “anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse."
Have you noticed that Mark uses segments of time (“nine in the morning,” “noon,” “three in the afternoon”) to describe Jesus’ crucifixion? He wants us to reflect on the long, agonizing struggle Jesus endured for us on the cross.
All of this adds significance to the fact that Jesus Christ was not just killed, but crucified. Yet Paul sees the transforming blessing of the cross: “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.”
PRAYER: Lord, amid my busyness, help me to stop and focus on all you have done for me. Through your death I can live! Amen.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 9, 2019 12:37:48 GMT -5
Ephesians 3:16-21
16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen
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Post by Jim Pate on Mar 10, 2019 10:06:28 GMT -5
John 1:16
16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 11, 2019 10:08:44 GMT -5
Genesis 1:26 - Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
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Post by jimpate on Mar 12, 2019 8:20:00 GMT -5
Matthew 22:21
(21) They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 13, 2019 12:36:29 GMT -5
2 Samuel 22:4
4 “I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and have been saved from my enemies.
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Post by jimpate on Mar 14, 2019 10:03:46 GMT -5
Numbers 6:24-26
24 “ ‘ “The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.” ’
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