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2 Chronicles 14:1-5. When Abijah died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king. There was peace in the land for ten years. Asa did what was pleasing and good in the sight of the Lord his God. He removed the foreign altars and the pagan shrines.Continue reading “Tear Them Down”

Job 1:22 “In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God.” So often when my children suffer, they blame me. They know that I am able to do anything, so when I “allow” them to suffer, they assign blame to me. Is this what you will do when you suffer? Is this theContinue reading “Only In Me”

2 Corinthians 4:17-18   “For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the thingsContinue reading “Things Eternal”

1 Corinthians 10:24, 31-33 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.….So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seekingContinue reading “This Is Key”

2 Corinthians 4:8-10. “We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus soContinue reading “Birth Pangs”

Romans 7:13 Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes. And so it is when lies take over my church. So it is today when all the false doctrines entrap and bindContinue reading “When Lies Take Over”

1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.  Be careful what you accept and what you participate in. Test the spirit of everything these days. Your enemy is strong, deceptive. It is easy to beContinue reading “Commit Yourself to Me”

Luke 12:48 “When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.” I have given you much – in every way. I have prospered you financially, emotionally and spiritually. I have granted you wisdom that others do not possess. IContinue reading “You Do Not Stop”

Zechariah 4:6 Then he said to me, “This is what the LORD says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.” You keep trying to do life on your own. You keep trying to figure it out. You need to surrender to me.Continue reading “But I See…”

Romans 1:28-32 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud,Continue reading “Darkness that Oppresses”