My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world’s language and the world eats it up. But we […]
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In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the Lord. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel. Exodus 27:21 The ‘tent of meeting’ was inside the boundaries of
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 Is the “Word of God” just a printed book? Or is it more than that? What
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These [false teachers] are springs without water and mists driven by a tempest, for whom is reserved the gloom of black darkness. For uttering arrogant words of vanity [pompous words disguised to sound scholarly or profound, but meaning nothing and containing no spiritual truth], they beguile and lure using lustful desires, by sensuality, those who
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Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.” 1 Chronicles 21:13 but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought
I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. 1 Corinthians 7:35 What or who are you devoted to? Devoted / devotion is a Latin based ‘old’ world word. The word used in scriptural Bible translations
For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; In the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. Psalms 27:5 AMP In the secret place of Your presence You hide them from the plots and conspiracies of man; You keep them
God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24 AMP Driving this morning and inviting His Presence I put on some worship music. It was the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir — singing with the congregation in a live recording, it’s one
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The mystery was made known to me by revelation, Ephesians 3:3 Oh the differences between human and Holy Spirit inspiration and vision. So many are calling for men of vision and courage in this current time in our culture. But is that ‘vision’ more of a general sense of enterprise that can inspire movements or
For we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about our trouble in [the west coast province of] Asia [Minor], how we were utterly weighed down, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life [itself]. Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death [and were
