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Zechariah 4:6 1/5/2010
Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel
saying, 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, '
says the LORD of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6) Psalm 91:1-3 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in
the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the LORD, "My
refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust!" For
it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper ...
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Noah's era 1/3/2010
Noah enters the ark. The great flood. "All wiped out"
but eight that lived in Noah's days (7:23)! Noah's
assignment (9:1, 7; see 1:2 . The rainbow, the sign of
the Covenant of God (9:11-17). Noah's prophecy concerning
his three sons. Verse for Today: Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in
the Ark ( Gen. 7:23). Wickedness had so engulfed the earth and evil had become
so ...
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Isaiah 41:1 Let the people renew their strength 1/3/2010
Isaiah 41:1 Let the people renew their strength. All things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing
continueth by itself. "Thou renewest the face of
the year, " was the Psalmist's utterance. Even
the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten
their lives with labour, must drink of the rain of heaven
and suck from the hidden treasures of the soil. The cedars
of Lebanon, which ...
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Colosians 4:2 1/3/2010
Colossians 4:2 Continue in prayer. It is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred
Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in furnishing
examples, enforcing precepts, or pronouncing promises.
We scarcely open the Bible before we read, "Then began
men to call upon the name of the Lord;" and just as we
are about to close the volume, the "Amen" of
an earnest supplication meets ...
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See ourselves in the future! 1/2/2010
Opening to Revelation 5 we see ourselves in the future;
and what is it we are doing when God let's us see ourselves?
Singing praises to our Redeemer!
There are few times that God's Word allows us to actually
see what we will be doing in Heaven and they always involves
us seeing ourselves worshiping the True and Living God
and His our Redeemer.
Notice what we are focused upon in ...
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The people of God sing a new song 1/2/2010
The people of God sing a new song at the throne (14:1-5; Ps.
96:1; 98:1; 149:1; Is. 42:10). A special offering of firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb (Rev. 14:4). What to preach and to
whom (14:6-7). The wrath of God (14:9-20; 15:1, 5-8; 16:1-21).
Victory over evil (15:2-4). Be alert, faithful, watchful,
and ready (16:15). The beast (14:9) is symbolic of all that is opposed to God.
This beast is ...
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Jeremiah 8:20 1/1/2010
Jeremiah 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned
of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life,
and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation,
you read it in the Bible, you hear it from the pulpit, it is
explained to you by friends, and yet you neglect it, and
therefore you are ...
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What think ye of Christ? 12/31/2009
Matthew 22:42 What think ye of Christ? The great test of your soul's health is, What think
you of Christ? Is He to you "fairer than the
of men"-"the chief among ten thousand"-the
"altogether lovely"? Wherever Christ is thus
esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise
themselves with energy. I will judge of your piety by this
barometer: does Christ stand high or low with you? If ...
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Ecclesiastes 7:8 12/30/2009
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
Look at David's Lord and Master; see His beginning.
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief. Would you see the end? He sits at
His Father's right hand, expecting until His enemies
be made his footstool. "As He is, so are we also in this
world." You must bear the cross, or you shall ...
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A New Song at the throne 12/28/2009
The people of God sing a new song at the throne (14:1-5; Ps.
96:1; 98:1; 149:1; Is. 42:10). A special offering of firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb (Rev. 14:4). What to preach and to
whom (14:6-7). The wrath of God (14:9-20; 15:1, 5-8; 16:1-21).
Victory over evil (15:2-4). Be alert, faithful, watchful,
and ready (16:15). The beast (14:9) is symbolic of all that is opposed to God.
This beast is ...
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Simeon and Anna 12/28/2009
Simeon and Anna Finishing Fruitfully Today there are two elderly saints dominated by wonderful
choices that they lived by. They are remarkable models
for us to follow as each of us ponders what the Lord has offered
us this Christmas season. Please join me in Luke 2:22 for
their biography. The last message we need to hear from the characters of Christmas
comes from the lives of Simeon and Anna. ...
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Revelation the first six seals 12/27/2009
A study in the meaning of first six seals as they are broken
(chap. 6). The people of God will be preserved (chap. 7).
Silence as the 7th seal breaks (8:1-3)! Sweet smell of prayer
(8:4-5). Read what happens when the 1st four trumpets blow
(8:6-12). If you think this is bad, wait until you read what's
coming (8:13)! It is not possible for our human minds to conceive the true
greatness of our ...
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1 John chapters 4 and 5 12/27/2009
1John 4-5; Psalm 147 -11; Proverbs 29:18 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits,
whether they are of God; because many false prophets have
gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God:
Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come
in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And ...
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Job 1:5 12/26/2009
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about,
that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the
morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the
number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have
sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
What the patriarch did early in the morning, after the family
festivities, it will be ...
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2 Corinthians 8:9 12/24/2009
2 Corinthians 8:9 For your sakes he became poor. The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and
exalted; but "though He was rich, yet for your sakes
He became poor." As the rich saint cannot be true in
his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance
he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding
with the head as between the members), it is impossible
that our ...
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Call His Name Jesus 12/23/2009
Call His Name Jesus Christmas: Call His Name Jesus—At the Name of Jesus "For He will save His people from their sins"
Our New Testament opens with the glorious advent of Christ
the Promised One; God the came to Earth to save sinners.
Christmas really has one theme and one central message—Jesus
came to save people from their sins. That is the way He is
introduced to us; those are the first ...
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Acts 18:10 12/23/2009
Acts 18:10 I have much people in this city. This should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since
God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate,
the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must
be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because
God has ordained you to be the messenger of life to their
souls, and they must receive it, for so the decree of ...
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Abba Father 12/21/2009
Though the Old Testament provides many rich names and titles
for God, the New Testament reveals him most fully. Jesus,
in fact, shocked and offended the religious leaders of
his day by claiming that he had a Father/ relationship
with the God whose name they feared even to pronounce. Furthermore,
by inviting his followers to call God "Father, "
he made this the primary name by which God is to be ...
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Proverbs 16:33 12/20/2009
Proverbs 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof
is of the Lord. If the disposal of the lot is the Lord's whose is the
arrangement of our whole life? If the a simple casting of
a lot is guided by Him, how much more the events of our entire
life-especially when we are told by our blessed Saviour:
"The very hairs of your head are all numbered: not
a sparrow falleth to ...
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Guard the Treasure 12/19/2009
Guard the Treasure That Has Been Entrusted to You 2Timothy 1-2; Psalm 143:10-11; Proverbs 28:5 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according
to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, a beloved : Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus
our Lord.
I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers
did, as without ...
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Joel 2:13 12/19/2009
Joel 2:13 Rend your heart, and not your garments. Garment-rendering and other outward signs of religious
emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical;
but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently
far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied
and minute ceremonial regulations-for such things are
pleasing to the flesh-but true religion is too ...
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The Sheperds 12/17/2009
The Shepherds
Taxes were high; wages were low. Hypocrisy was rampant; honesty was rare. Freedom was gone; occupation was hard. The rich were getting richer; the poor were always struggling.
Morality was ebbing; rebellion was brewing; cruelty was
reigning. Life for a shepherd in Century One was difficult at best.
Cold nights, long days, distant family, and rare friends
were part of the ...
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Ruth 1:14 12/17/2009
Ruth 1:14 Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her.
Both of them had an affection for Naomi, and therefore set
out with her upon her return to the land of Judah. But the
hour of test came; Naomi most unselfishly set before each
of them the trials which awaited them, and bade them if they
cared for ease and comfort to return to their Moabitish
friends. At first both of them declared ...
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John 10:9 12/17/2009
John 10:9 I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,
and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church,
and the way of access to God Himself. He gives to the man who
comes to God by Him four choice privileges. 1. He shall be
saved. The fugitive manslayer passed the gate of the city
of refuge, and was safe. Noah entered the ...
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Habakkuk 3:6 12/13/2009
Habakkuk 3:6 His ways are everlasting. What He hath done at one time, He will do yet again. Man's
ways are variable, but God's ways are everlasting.
There are many reasons for this most comforting truth:
among them are the following-the Lord's ways are the
result of wise deliberation; He ordereth all things according
to the counsel of His own will. Human action is frequently
the hasty result of ...
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Nehemiah 6:1-4 12/12/2009
Nehemiah 6:1-4 Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, to Geshem
the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt
the wall, and that no breach remained in it, although at
that time I had not set up the doors in the gates, then Sanballat
and Geshem sent a message to me, saying, "Come, let
us meet together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono".
But they were planning to harm me. So I ...
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"Highest" or "Exalted One" 12/10/2009
When applied to God, the term Elyon, meaning "Highest"
or "Exalted One, " emphasizes that God is the
highest in every realm of life. In the New Testament, Jesus
is known as the of the Most High while the Holy Spirit
is the power of the Most High. All who belong to Christ are
revealed as sons and daughters of the Most High by imitating
the Father in heaven. When you praise the Most High, you
are ...
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Moralism is not the Gospel by Mohler 12/10/2009
Albert Mohler One of the most amazing statements by the Apostle Paul is
his indictment of the Galatian Christians for abandoning
the Gospel. "I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting
Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different
gospel, " Paul declared. As he stated so emphatically,
the Galatians had failed in the crucial test of discerning
the authentic Gospel from its ...
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Dead to Self and Alive onto Christ 12/9/2009
Dead to Self and Alive to Christ Colossians 3-4; Psalm 138:1-3; Proverbs 26:17 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which
are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of
God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear
with Him in ...
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Discipline 12/7/2009
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only
one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control
in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath,
but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as
not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air;
but I discipline my body and make ...
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