Category: messages
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What Good Is It?
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? James 2:14 template: Floral Templates Vol. 1, papers: Seasons – Summer into Fall by Alexis Design Studio; elements: Celebrate You Sept. 2019 Gingerscraps Challenge mini-kit and add on by JumpStart Designs continuing: If…
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Consecrate Yourselves
Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.” Joshua 3:5 kits: Celebrate You challenge (Gingerscraps Sept. 2019) mini-kit and add-on by JumpStart Designs Here is a related passage: As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their…
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Make You Jealous
They have made Me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. Deuteronomy 32:21 quickpage: Delightful by unknown, world/people by Miss Tiina context: “But Jeshurun grew…
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Singled Out for Calamity
The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven. And the LORD will single him out from all…
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Turning Away
Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Deuteronomy 29:18a papers (blended) by Holliewood Studios, broken heart by Miss Tiina continuing: Beware lest there be among you a root…
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Alarmed
And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said [to Paul], “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.” Acts 24:25 paper, special effects by Holliewood Studios, page border by SuzyQ Scraps context: And when the governor had nodded to him…
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Vileness is Exalted
On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man. Psalm 12:8 Which is love? To speak the truth even though it’s unwelcome (therefore uncomfortable to the bearer of the message, probably also costing them their popularity), or to tell people what they want to hear even though they don’t…
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Testing Them
I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. Ecclesiastes 3:18 Solomon goes on to say that both animals and humans die. Hopefully we all know that we’re all born with the sinful nature and subject to…
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Eternal Fire
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an…
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Faith Apart From Works Is Dead
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. James 2:26 quickpage by Scrapper@Heart with kit: Splendor full passage: What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister…
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Law of Liberty
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So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:12-13 papers (blended) by Marta van Ecka and Lynne Anzek, elements, top papers by etDesigns Please also see my related devotional…
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A Doer Who Acts
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. James 1:25 kit: Cozy Attic by Marta van Eck Notice what “law” we believers are under – “the PERFECT law of liberty” – under…
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Time of Trouble
“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.”…
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Imperishable Wreath
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 paper by Lorie Davison, laurel wreath by Kristmess…
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Children of God
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing…
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Sign of the Covenant
God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.” Genesis 9:17 kits: Look Up: When It Rains, Look for Rainbows by Kristin Cronin Barrow, Love Wins (which the designer based on the song by Carrie Underwood) by LJS Designs…
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Never Be Moved
O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes…
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A Good Conscience
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For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the…
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Way of Balaam
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. 2 Peter 2:15-16 (Also see the entire context of 2Pet. 2.) But…
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One Lawgiver and Judge
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, He who is…
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God Sees Everything
From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding? It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’ God understands the way to it, and He knows its place.…
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Fools Despise Wisdom
The fear of the LORD is the firstfruits of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7 Note: The word firstfruits above is usually translated “beginning,” however, that loses some of the meaning of the word. Firstfruits are the choice part of the harvest, not only the beginning. Something can begin without being good, but…
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Don’t Envy
Don’t be agitated by evildoers, and don’t envy the wicked. For the evil have no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out. Proverbs 24:19-20 kit: Harvest Gold by Optic Illusions; template: challenge Freebie by Optic Illusions Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing…
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Refused to Love the Truth
Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 kit: Master of Puppets by Marta van Eck previous verse: The coming of the lawless one is by the activity…
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Who Forsake the Lord
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“But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny, I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did…