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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Take A Leap Of Faith (1) You give them something to eat. - Matthew 14:16 NKJV Lee Brown noticed a little girl begging in her neighbourhood. Later she searched, but couldn't find her at the local school. That day Brown decided to make a difference for other kids by adopting a first-grade

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Just Do It! For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven... by the wind... - James 1:6 NKJV The Bible says, 'for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man,

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Loving People Love one another... - John 15:12 NKJV Loving people is only a vague concept, unless we do these five things: People are insecure; give them confidence. Beneath their faade lie memories of a painful past and anxiety over what's coming their way next. Tell

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Some of us declare that we are Christian. But not all who claim this title truly follow the guidelines and obligations that go with it. In Matthew 6:7, (NCV) Jesus tells us, "And when you pray, don't be like those people who don't know God. They continue saying things that mean nothing, thinking that God will hear them because of their many words." I cannot pray "Our Father", if

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Where's My Heart? Where your treasure is, there your heart will be... - Matthew 6:21 NIV William Randolph Hearst lived in Hearst Castle. It was 90,000 square feet sitting on 265,000 acres. At one time he owned 50 miles of California coastline. And he collected 'stuff' for 88 years. He

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Frequent Encounters With God! These are the Scriptures that testify about me... - John 5:39 NIV Here are two compelling reasons for saturating your mind in the Scriptures: To know who God is. One day in school, a little girl was asked by her art teacher what she was drawing.

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Don't Keep Score Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. - Colossians 3:13 TM Jimmy drank too much at the party and embarrassed his wife Lisa. Next morning he felt bad and asked her to forgive him. She said she would, yet she kept bringing it up. One day, in

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass What's Choking You? Desires for... things... choke the Word. - Mark 4:19 NIV In the parable of the sower Jesus said, "Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the Word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Great Relationships There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. - Proverbs 18:24 NIV Building great relationships takes time and energy. And you only discover how valuable such relationships are when they're tested. One author writes: "Contouring your heart to beat with another

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Great Expectations This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down. - 1 Samuel 17:46 NIV It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. David didn't have the rank, equipment or training, but he had the winning attitude. So great was

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Wilderness Attitudes! We who...believed are able to enter...God's rest. - Hebrews 4:3 NCV After spending half their lives in the wilderness, the Israelites blamed it on their enemies. But it was their attitude that was at fault! Because God "was...angry...they were not allowed to enter..

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Responding Like Jesus! Pray for those who persecute you. - Matthew 5:44 NIV A soldier made it his practice to end each day with Bible reading and prayer. As the others gathered in the barracks and retired for the night, he'd kneel by his bunk. Some of them saw this and began to mock him.

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Do You Have A Vision? (3) Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. - Habakkuk 2:3 TLB When God gives you a vision - He also gives you the provision needed to fulfil it! Often He'll use something you already possess even though you don't know it, or

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Do You Have A Vision? (2) Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. - Habakkuk 2:3 TLB Many people wear themselves out trying to fulfil a vision God didn't give them. So where did their vision come from? The most dominant influences in their

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Do You Have A Vision? (1) Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. - Habakkuk 2:3 TLB In the early stages of pregnancy a baby is easier to lose. The same applies to your God-given vision; you need to protect it. The enemy tried to destroy Moses and

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass The Spirit Of Caleb My servant Caleb has a different spirit. - Numbers 14:24 NIV Caleb wasn't into "safe living". As a young man he came back from the Promised Land, stood with the minority and announced, "With God on our side we'll take it!" At 85, he was still slaying giants and

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Don't Settle For A "B" I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. - Philippians 4:13 NIV Harvey MacKay tells the story of a professor who stood before his class of 30 senior molecular biology students. Before passing out the final exam he said, "I have been privileged to be

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Forgive Because You Are Forgiven! God put His love on the line...while we were of no use whatever to Him. - Romans 5:8 TM Telling of his experience as a Prisoner Of War, Ernest Gordon related how after work one evening a guard noticed a shovel missing. Insisting one of the prisoners had

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Anybody Can Do It! Encourage one another. - 1 Thessalonians 5:11 NIV Chuck Swindoll writes: The ski slopes were in perfect condition. I struck out on my first attempt at skiing with a positive attitude, thinking, 'I'm going to be the first person who learns to ski

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Seeing Others The Right Way If you love someone you will... always believe in him, always expect the best of him. - 1 Corinthians 13:7 TLB We rarely discern others accurately. Almost every conclusion we have about them is flawed and based on limited knowledge. We give up too soon because

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Winter is a time for longing and expectation. The seed catalogs arrive, and we long for the perfect garden. We make huge wish lists of what we want to plant. We think about fishing.... sort through the tackle box and shop for new lures. We think about camping and long for the perfect place where we can go to escape the world, relax and commune with God. In

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass How To Avoid Shipwreck You will guide me. - Psalm 73:24 Your life is like a voyage. If you want to avoid shipwreck read Acts 27:12-15 (NIV) and notice the following things: They were dissatisfied with where they were. "Since the harbour was unsuitable... the

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass The Rubber Band Principle Straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize. - Philippians 3:13-14 NIV All rubber bands work on the same principle - they must be stretched to be effective! Anybody who has ever achieved anything of note has been stretched to

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Showing Grace (2) He gives more grace. - James 4:6 An old Quaker bought a cantankerous dairy cow and every milking session became a battle of wills. Determined to demonstrate grace under fire the old man refused to react when Bessie stomped on his foot, whipped him in the face

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Showing Grace (1) Let your conversation be gracious. - Colossians 4:6 NLT Even when you try to "live at peace with everyone" (Ro 12:18 NIV): Conflicts will still arise. After all, life would be boring if we all marched to the same drumbeat. That's why there are so many

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Your Quiet Time With God 2 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek You. - Psalm 63:1 NIV Stephen Olford said, I want to hear God's voice before anyone else's in the morning. And His is the last voice I want to hear at night. David and Daniel met with the Lord three times

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Hearing From God 4 For the revelation awaits an appointed time. - Habakkuk 2:3 NIV When God speaks to you it's not always wise to rush out and tell people. Actually, it can hurt you! When God gives you a word of direction it's often followed by a season of preparation. Who wouldn't

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Your Quiet Time With God 1 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek You. - Psalm 63:1 NIV When you come to meet with God you should have an attitude of: Expectancy. Expect to 'give and get' from your time together. And make it a time of intimacy. It's impossible to have a love

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Hearing From God 3 His anointing teaches you concerning everything. - 1 John 2:27 AMP We need to have an attitude that says, "God, no matter what anyone else is telling me, or what I think myself, if I clearly hear You saying something to me I'm going to honour You and do what You say."

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Hearing From God 2 Be still, and know that I am God. - Psalm 46:10 If you are unwilling to listen to God in one area, you'll be unable to hear from Him in other areas. People think they can't hear from God, but in reality there are a lot of things they already know He wants them to

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Hearing From God He will be our guide. - Psalm 48:14 NIV Jesus told His disciples, "The Spirit of truth (the Truth-giving Spirit)... will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth)" (Jn 16:13 AMP). Jesus spoke these words to men with whom He'd spent the previous three years.

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Basking in the sun on the beach this week, I found myself mesmerized by the coming and going of each wave. The force of the wave didn't affect the fact that it had a mission... to reach shore, and to retreat once more to the sea. Controlled by the tides, moving endlessly within God's Creation, the water pushed and pulled against the shore. High tides and low tides, strong

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It's not unusual for God's Word to be misapplied. Satan's favorite tactic against Christians is presenting God's words out of context in ways that appeal to carnal man. Satan even tried it on Jesus: At the end of forty days in the wilderness, we see the evil one quoting the wrong scripture to Jesus, merely as an enticement for personal gain. Now if the devil would actually try

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Experiencing The Miraculous Do whatever He tells you. - John 2:5 NIV Do you need a miracle? Reread the story of Jesus turning water into wine. Notice what Mary said to the attendants at the wedding reception: "Do whatever [Jesus] tells you." Do it, even though: You're

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Have You Found Your Calling? We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. - Ephesians 2:10 NIV When God calls you to do something, His call comes in several ways: You feel "moved." There's a moment of

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Why Be Honest? Far better to be right and poor than to be wrong and rich. - Proverbs 16:8 TM After a week of special meetings, the guest preacher approached the airline desk to purchase a flight for home. Ticket in hand, he took a seat in the waiting area. Checking his credit card

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass With My Teeeeeeeeeeeeth! We were forced to trust God totally. - 2 Corinthians 1:9 TM Four guys decided to go mountain climbing. In the middle of the climb one fellow slipped over a cliff, dropped about sixty feet and landed with a thud on the ledge below. The other three, hoping to

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God longs to give you good things. To drive this point home, Jesus prompts us to look at our hearts toward our children, how we long to give them good things â€" then consider that our Father in heaven is far more paternal and maternal than we are. “Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? … How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to

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The Word for TodayWith Bob Gass Establishing PrioritiesTeach us to use wisely all the time we have. - Psalm 90:12 CEV Growing up, Dr. Tony Campolo says he spent many Fridays at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia visiting Ed Bailey, the guy who ran it. Campolo writes: "His encyclopedic mind fascinated me. He knew something about everything... I was friends with Ed until he died. After a

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The Word for TodayWith Bob Gass Put On Your ArmourPut on the full armour of God. - Ephesians 6:11 NAS Let's take a look at the six pieces of God's armour described by Paul in Ephesians 6:14-17. The first three are things we wear all the time. The last three are things we pick up as needed for the moment. Let's check out the first three: (1) The belt of truth. "Stand firm therefore, having girded

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Establishing Priorities Make every minute count. - Ephesians 5:16 CEV Pastor Adrian Rogers says: "The misuse of anything as precious as time should be a crime. If somebody steals your car... you can acquire another. If they snatch your wallet... a few phone calls would salvage the

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass The Blame Game 'The woman you put...with me...gave me...the fruit, and I ate it.' - Genesis 3:12-13 CEV A man smokes three packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years, dies of lung cancer, and his family sues the tobacco company. A woman crashes while driving drunk, then blames the bartender.

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass You'll Never Know Until You Try It! You cannot serve both God and Money. - Matthew 6:24 NIV Richard Foster writes: We had a swing set, a real custom-made job - huge steel pipes and all. But our children would soon be beyond swing sets, so we decided to sell it. I went out in the

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass After You've Failed When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. - Luke 22:32 NIV God can turn your failures into stepping stones to success. Look at Peter. Jesus told him, "Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass God's Strange Choice God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. - 1 Corinthians 1:27 NIV Has someone told you you're not qualified? If so, read on: Dear Paul the Apostle: We received your application and, quite frankly, we're amazed you've been

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Many Christians have a heart for the lost and long to see them saved by God, yet I am constantly surprised by the way many of these same people seem to judge other fellow Christians as unsaveably unsaved, lost causes, and eternally judged and damned. We see this on some websites and spoken about by some Christian individuals/groups who proclaim to be actively

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Living Unselfishly Give without expecting a return. - Luke 6:35 TM If you're serious about becoming like Jesus, pay careful attention to His words: "Ask yourself what you want people to do for you; then grab the initiative and do it for them... give without expecting a return. You'll

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Matthew 7:7 gives some incredible promises: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Is this really true? I can ask for anything and I'll get it? So why do some prayers go unanswered? First, we need to understand the

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"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (MT 7:1-2) This is Jesus, the Son of God, speaking. He's not just a wise observer or guru who has noticed some of life's principles and is teaching them to others. He created the principles! The law of

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As a young kid in the 1960's I remember watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade with enthusiasm. I enjoyed seeing the wonderful floats, celebrities, giant balloons, and the marching bands, but I knew at the end of the parade would be Santa Claus! This signified the end of the Thanksgiving Day holiday, and the beginning of the Christmas holiday. Even though I went to

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Stewards - Not Owners! He must increase, but I must decrease. - John 3:30 When the crowds left John the Baptist to follow Jesus, he said: "This is the assigned moment for Him to move into the centre, while I slip off to the sidelines" (Jn 3:30 TM). John thought like a steward. A steward

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Are all Christians going to heaven? Is it automatic? The school of Christianity has been split on this one since the beginning, because there are excellent scriptures to support either view. In Matthew 7, verse 21, Jesus says, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on

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The Greek language had three words for "Love" First there was "eros," from which we get "erotic." This was, of course a purely selfish love. Then there was "Phileo" (Philadelphia), or "brotherly love" This is the love of one family member for another. But the Bible added a new one - "agape". "Agape" is a giving love, entirely unselfish. By way of both illustration

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass The Power Of Crying Out (2) In the day when I cried out, You answered me. - Psalm 138:3 NKJV Most of us find it humbling and difficult to cry out to God in times of trouble. Especially men! They prefer to be known as the strong, rugged, self-sufficient types. They'd rather endure

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Throughout our recorded human history great people such as Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato all suggest that we personally play a pivotal role in our own happiness. Our right for the pursuit of happiness was also written by Thomas Jefferson in America's Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies; but what we use as our guide to obtain happiness is essential to truly

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass "Faith" It Out Til You Figure It Out! When life gets... difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. - 1 Peter 4:12 TM Within months Fred Whiteman went through more pain than most of us in our entire lifetime. Cancer claimed his best friend. Then his mum died and

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Many Christians today and throughout our history, have missed the true point in their beliefs and practices with what they observe and do in their obligations to our Father in heaven. What I mean by this is, that many of us emphasize on the ritual aspects in the bible as the path that can be taken to personally reach heaven by. Many of us emphasize on many ways of interpretation

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1 Peter 3:10 - For He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile; Guile is another way of saying treachery or deceit. In other words our spoken words are not full of truth but deceit. I would say this; any words that are not uplifting, any words that are not edifying to the hearer, any words that are

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Some churches are really strong on answering the call to life, but pay less attention to Christ’s call to death. Others are pretty good at life prevention, doing a great job of answering the call to deny any bit of self satisfaction. I recall one preacher who would thump the pulpit vehemently as he made me feel guilty for even eating breakfast that day. And I can recall another preacher

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The Word for Today With Bob Gass Quality Workmanship Neither hammer...axe nor any iron tool [was] heard while it was being built. - 1 Kings 6:7 NAS A hotel guest called room service one morning and ordered two undercooked eggs, cold bacon, burned toast and lukewarm coffee." The waiter replied, "That could be difficult,

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Why do we need to deny ourselves and carry our cross each day? It wasn’t always this way. In the Garden, in the original paradise that God created, it was all about life. There was no road of self denial, no cross to carry. God told man he was “free to eat from any tree in the garden” except the one that was the doorway to sin and death. Nothing was off limits other than the poison tree.

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  Read Acts 1:1-14 No doubt the disciples would gladly have gone forth at once to begin the work of preaching and saving men. It would seem, too, as if they were prepared to go, for they had been in training with Christ for three years. Now that He was risen and ascended to heaven, why should they wait longer? We think of them as eager to begin their work. But they were not yet ready. We lean

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As Jesus poured Himself out to people during His earthly ministry, He saw some who were diligently obeying the call to death, the way of self-denial (at least on the outside), but not hearing the call to life. The Pharisees, the literal "elder brother" in His parable of the Prodigal Son, worked away in the Father's fields, secretly frustrated that they received no reward from Him. If you

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  Read Acts 1:1-14 The Ascension was part of the work of Christ as our Saviour. It was not the end of it. The Gospel narrative is described by Luke as “all that Jesus began both to do and to teach.” It is interesting to think of words and deeds of Jesus as beginnings. He did not cease to live and work when He went away from earth. He only returned to heaven, where He continued His active

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"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." (MT 16:25) Why do we have to die in order to live? Since man ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, we have been under the curse of self worship. Self has been put up on the throne and exalted, and it leads to emptiness every time. Putting ourselves first will never bring

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Are you drinking enough water? Our bodily composition is over 70% water. Water is needed and used for every cell, tissue and organ of our bodies. It is essential that we provide sufficient amounts of water for our bodily needs. Plus, the regular consumption of fruits and vegetables provide an abundance of nutrients for every cell of our bodies. If we are not

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  “If only we strive to be pure and true, To each of us all there will come an hour When the tree of life shall burst into flower, And rain at our feet the glorious dower Of something grander than ever we knew.” We have only successfully acquired the art of living a Christian life when we have learned to apply the principles of religion and enjoy its help and comfort in our daily life. It is

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There is a door before you, one you have been knocking on.Written on the door is "The greater things of God."You have asked God to lead you through this door, and He has been doing so. He has won you over. He has shown you His riches, His glory, His presence. And He has gained your trust. You now find yourself yearning and hungering, pleading with God to take you deeper. More of Him, less of you.

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What is it to be a Christian? What is that change which, wrought in a natural man, make him a Christian man? What are a Christian's new relations to God and to his fellow men? What is Christian character? How should a Christian live? What is the patter on which his life should be fashioned? If we would make our Christian life what it ought to be, we must find plain, clear answers to these

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I was reading Colossians 2v20-23 the other day and it made me think.I remember when I first went to the UK from New Zealand, there were some things that Christians commonly did there that seemed wrong to me. Also, when I visited Christian churches in other countries, for instance in Asia, it seemed 'ungodly' how non 'New Zealand' their worship was.I remember thinking that this may have been how

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Does God watch over the lives of little children on the earth? Does He keep guard over imperiled infancy? The story of the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt answers the question in the case of one infant life. It was a flight divinely ordered and directed. The Child Jesus was in danger. There was no human way of escape. He who had come to earth to be the Redeemer of men was about to be slain in

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God is in the business of hiding and revealing things. Much of what Jesus taught was "in code," a lesson or principle hidden inside of a parable or word picture.It wasn't necessary for God to hide anything, back when man lived in perfect intimacy with God, in the Garden, before sin changed man's nature. God told man he was free to eat from any tree in the Garden, except the one that causes truths

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Jesus declared to the church leaders of His day that He would send "prophets and wise men and teachers" to the church - and the leaders would abuse them and reject them:"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part

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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" we ask children. As if we can choose whatever we want, and through strong ambition, we can make it happen.We can choose, because God has given us free choice. But He has also given us a specific, custom-fitted plan for our lives. His plan for your life is different than His plan for mine. If I go on to do "great" things that I wasn't called to do, I will

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Jesus calls people to deny their own self and follow Him: "If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it." (Luke 9:23)And yet Jesus promises abundant life, more than any human can contain: "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the

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