Oh, Lord God! Behold, You Yourself have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You (Jeremiah 32:17, NASB). We’ve all experienced carbon over the holidays: The black wicks left after burning candles scented to smell like cranberries, evergreen, or farts (gag gift to me from […]
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We can’t understand the Book of Nehemiah without understanding the importance of city walls in Old Testament times. Nehemiah understood! Nehemiah’s brother and several of his brother’s friends returned from Jerusalem to Susa in Persia to give this report to Nehemiah. . . They said to me, “The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its
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Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! (Psalm 128:1, ESV) The best way to live begins and ends with fearing God! Psalms 128 explains the three great blessings received from glorifying God. These blessings include fulfillment with work or calling, a peaceful and productive family, and, finally, a prosperous nation. In other
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I’ve read this verse for years. . . But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints (Ephesians 5:3, NASB). Rather, I’ve read this verse too quickly. The Apostle Paul writes that sexually immoral, impure, and greed topics shouldn’t even be mentioned among believers. I agree. But
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Jesus said. . . The words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life (John 6:63, NASB). We are created by God as spirit, soul, and body — the words of Jesus (and the rest of Bible) are inspired by the Spirit. . . But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture becomes
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Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your Law (Psalm 119:18, NASB). Charles Spurgeon, known as the Prince of Preachers, once described all the books he had read by saying. . . I read them once with considerable pleasure, but now they are of no use to me. They were good in
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Jesus said to us. . . Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see all these things, you can know his [Jesus] return is very near, right at the door (Matthew 24:32-33, NLT). There
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The Book of Nehemiah is a journal. Being the only book of the Bible written from this personal perspective, we can literally read the thoughts of a great man of God as he confronts and struggles through his greatest challenge. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the
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Psalm 111:1 ~ Praise the Lord! Psalm 112:1 ~ Praise the Lord! Psalm 113:1 ~ Praise the Lord! Psalms 111, 112, and 113 open with “Hallelujah,” which is the Hebrew word for “Praise Jehovah.” The three psalms are the “Hallelujah” psalms, giving us many ways to praise God. All three psalms contain only twenty-nine verses.
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David said, “The Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine!” (1 Samuel 17:37, NLT) Before the age of fifteen, David had killed a 1,000-pound bear and a 400-pound lion. When he saw the 10-foot-tall Goliath taunting the Israelites and blaspheming the Living God Himself —
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