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Words
are our friends!
We
love them!
We
enjoy spending time with them!
In
fact, they
fill our home to the brim!
But at
this point...
we are
blessed with
waaaay
too many of them!
So we are
paring down these friends in our home!
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A
Word of Encouragement
Intentionally work
to rise above the trivialities of this world...
Don't let the adversary so fill your mind
with that which does not matter
that you have no room left in your mind and heart
for that which matters forever.
(David
Platt)
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A
Refreshings Page
Our
Life and Breath Are In His Hands
God gives us our life and breath.
- Then the LORD God formed man
of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living being. (Gen 2:7)
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The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the
Almighty gives me life. (Job 33:4)
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Thus says God the LORD... who gives breath to the people
on it [earth] and spirit to those who walk in it... (Is 42:5a,c)
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...He Himself gives to all life and breath and all
things.. (Acts 17:25b)
God sustains our life and breath.
-
..in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and
the breath of all mankind... (Job
12:10)
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...But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and
your ways... (Dan 5:23c)
Read
more...
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Refreshings Page
Convince
Against Conscience
It
is definitely
wrong to convince someone to do something against their
conscience!
But this statement needs
some qualifications and clarifications (based on Rm 14).
1.
We must never try to get someone to do something (an
action!) that goes against their conscience.
Whatever
is not done from faith is clearly sin for a person (vs 23b). To
entice them to go against their conscience would be to put a
'stumbling block' in their way, to 'hurt' them, and to possibly
'destroy' them (vs's 13,15).
Read
more...
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Rehearsing
Today
In
Jesus we are...
redeemed
(Rm 3:24)
saved
and called with a holy calling
(2 Tim 1:9)
made
alive (Col 2:13b)
new
creatures (2 Cor 5:17)
sealed
with the Holy Spirit of promise
(Eph 1:13)
forgiven
of our trespasses (Eph 1:7)
brought
near by His blood (Eph 1:13b)
made
complete (Col 2:10)
blessed
with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places (Eph 1:3b)
bold
and confident in our access to the Father
(Eph 3:12)
living
by faith (Gal 2:20)
having
liberty (Gal 2:4)
established
(2 Cor 1:21)
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A
Word of Encouragement
"It makes no matter where He places
me, or how.
That is rather for Him to consider than
for me;
for in the easiest position He must give
me His grace,
and in the most difficult His grace is
sufficient."
(J. Hudson Taylor
-
Hudson
Taylor
's Spiritual Secret)
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