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Hearing and Practicing

Scripture Luke 6:47-48 "As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck...

Listen First

ScriptureDaniel 10:12"Then he continued, "Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard and I have come in response to them" ObservationGod responds to a...

God Opportunities

ScriptureLuke 4:24-26"Truly I tell you," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet...

God First

ScriptureDaniel 5:17"Then Daniel answered the king, "you may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means." ObservationDaniel had not had an easy path in life....

Holy Moments

Scripture Ezekiel 42:14,20 "Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for...

The Blessing

ScripturePsalm 128:1,3"Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him....your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table." ObservationWalking in obedience to God doesn't just...

Faithful

ScripturePsalm 145:13-14"The Lord is trustworthy in all He promises and faithful in all He does. The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down." ObservationThough I am not always faithful or trustworthy, God is! Though I fall, His footing is...

Keep Pointing

ScriptureRevelation 19:9-10"Then the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the lamb!" and he added, "These are the true words of God"At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Don't do that! I am...

Dry Valleys

Scripture'The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. ' Ezekiel 37:1 ObservationThe hand of God was on Ezekiel, and Ezekiel followed where God was leading him. The...

Therefore I Have Hope

ScriptureLamentations 3:19-22"I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I will remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for...

Confidence

ScriptureObadiah 1:3-4"The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, 'who can bring me down to the ground?' Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the...

My God

ScriptureJeremiah 42:3,6"Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go, and what we should do.""Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the Lord our God." ObservationThe children of Israel wanted "Jeremiah's God' to speak to them and...

Armed and Ready

ScriptureRevelation 12:11"They triumphed over him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony; They did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death" ObservationMichael and his angels waged war in heaven against satan, and were victorious....

Transformation, Not Talent

Scripture Ezekiel 29:19-20 "Therefor this is what the sovereign Lord says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army. I have given him Egypt as a reward for his...

The Covenant

ScripturePsalm 111:4-5"He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and compassionate. He provides food for those who fear him; He remembers his covenant forever." ObservationAmidst all the judgement and destruction we've been reading in...

New

ScriptureEzekiel 18:31-32"Rid yourselves of the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live! ObservationEven in...

Just Wait

ScriptureRevelation 6:11"Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been." ObservationI don't like waiting...

Serious Business

ScriptureEzekiel 14:21"This is what the Sovereign Lord says: "How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments - sword and famine and wild beasts and plague - to kill its men and their animals!" ObservationWe rarely talk...