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Psalm 118:29 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
What better thing to do on a Sunday than go out to your local church and celebrate the fact that Jesus is alive!
Praise God for all He has done, all He has promised and all we have to look forward to.
Celebrate we have a living, loving and merciful God who is always willing to show us more life, love and mercy.
And there is no end to His mercy – because it is endless and forever!
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Psalm 118:28 You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You.
David was under no illusion about God. He may have forgotten his duties toward God and set aside his praise from time to time, but he knew God was God!
For all the promises God had made to his descendants, David was thankful and tried never to forget them.
These sort of words come from the heart and allow us to see just how much he did love God.
It does not mean David was perfect; far from it. But he loved God and showed us all!
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Psalm 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
How can we even think we can make God great? The answer is, of course we cannot make Him great because He is already greater than anything.
What we can do, though, is to lift up our praises and worship of Him so others can see just how awesome and great He is.
Being open and honest about our feelings toward God will go a lot further than our descriptions of Him too; how do we describe the indescribable?
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Psalm 34:3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Who is going to listen to this request? Will it be the people who have hard hearts or ones who are willing to listen to what you have to say?
When we humble ourselves, and are willing to listen to God’s Word, we too will be willing to obey these words and give God all the glory!
By gathering together and lifting God’s name up, we are remembering just who it is we worship and who has come before us to love and forgive us first of all.
Rejoice together and praise Him together!
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Isaiah 12:1 And in that day you will say: “O Lord, I will praise You; Though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
Just one more reminder of the many in our bibles…
I chose this one because it is God showing people how their own anger and lives can be turned around.
It is God doing the turning around, but we are taking the steps and living the steps. We see how we have been changed, not by what we can do, but by what God can do through us.
Always remember it is God who is able and willing to do this all in your life just as He has and many lives before yours.
Believe in Him and trust Him to change you too!
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Hosea 14:4 “I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.
No matter how many times people have been reminded how God is merciful and full of grace, we still forget He is willing to forgive and forget our sins.
We need to show our love back to God just as He has showed His continued love toward mankind over so many years.
Yet knowing all these sins we have done, He is still willing to forgive us and set us back on the right path.
Who else do you know who is willing to give you so much time?
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Isaiah 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.
These are the words given to Isaiah to remind us how merciful and full of grace our Lord is.
We are the ones who get things wrong; we are the sinners who follow temptations rather than His ways.
Yet He is always willing and able to forgive those who are willing to lift up their transgressions to Him – no matter what!
God wants to lead us and restore us to live with Him in all glory!
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Psalm 41:4 I said, “Lord, be merciful to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
The first step in getting to know Christ properly is to start being totally honest with Him; after all, He has been nothing but honest with you!
Don’t be worried about it taking so long before you got to be close to God, be glad of all you have been through on your journey.
You’ve though of others, God has thought of you.
You’ve looked out for others, God has you.
Then He strengthened you when you least expected it.
All because He loves you!
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Psalm 41:3 The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed.
God is here to help us in all circumstances, whether we are fit and well or on our death bed; He is here to help.
It may be that He wants to heal us and allow us to continue serving Him, or it may be He wants to give us comfort so we can enjoy our life until we meet Him.
The decision is not ours when we die, but it is ours to continue walking in God’s grace and presence until we do.
Make it a good life – live with God every day!
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Psalm 41:2 The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, And he will be blessed on the earth;
What happens when you live your life for God? What happens when you really do listen to Him and change your outlook on life?
Well, these words may well have been written a very long time before Jesus came to serve people on earth, but they show what can and will happen!
Jesus was blessed on earth as He continued to serve His (and our) heavenly Father!
God wants to be able to support and bless us in everything we do – we need to do everything we do with God in mind.
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Psalm 41:1 Blessed is he who considers the poor; The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
How would you class yourself? Do you think you always look out for other people? Do you think you mostly look out for others or do you just go about your own things?
Jesus came to this world, not to lift Himself up but to lift up the people who need it most!
We need to take a long look at the way Christ worked with the people He did and start applying that way of working into our lives.
Live like Jesus lived; for others!
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John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
Throughout our bibles, and indeed throughout time we can see how the evil one has got in on everything he can in our lives.
Jesus was faced up directly by the evil one, but He also saw him at work when he picked the disciples.
We are warned about how adept the devil is at getting in on our lives, but I don’t think we always take it too seriously.
We should! Christ was crucified and died on the cross because of the seriousness of this evil being!
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Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
The book of Job is thought to be the oldest of the scriptures found written down and this story should raise a few eyebrows.
Satan is here amongst the gathering of our Lord and various sons of God; he wanted to be there to cause trouble – just as he always does!
Satan was not there to try and see how good Job was but to try and destroy his faith in God.
The evil one will do anything he can to try and get you to doubt God or to blame Him for things; don’t go there…
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1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
When the apostle says to be sober and vigilant, they cannot realistically be done without each other; trying to be vigilant if one is not sober in mind and spirit would be a lost cause.
We have a very real threat, the evil one, who is always out to try and trip us up at every opportunity; just to try and prevent us from being close to God!
When we hear a sound which frightens us, that feeling runs deep inside and not just on the exterior – the devil is out to frighten us as much as possible.
Trust in Christ and depend on Him as your protector at all times.
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1 Peter 1:13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Have you ever tried to wade through a deep puddle wrapped up in lots of clothes? It is very hard work when the clothes get wet. The best way is to lift the clothes away from the water to make it easier!
Here we are being told to do the same with our minds – not to allow our minds to be dragged down by the mire we are trying to wade through.
Allow Christ to guide you through this world by trusting in Him and listening to Him. Don’t be dragged down by the world around you.
Our bibles are here to light the way and make it easier – use them!
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Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
God did not have the bible written to try and trip us up. He did not have it written so He could show us up. He had this all transcribed so we could learn.
What we do not know, we can learn. Where we do not have hope, we can learn of hope. Where we grow weary, we can gain strength.
Don’t treat your bible like a rule book that has to be obeyed but rather as a source of all the things you need to know about God so you can be closer to Him.
Think of it in a positive light and not a negative light – that will change your life!
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Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
When Jesus was surrounded by the Sadducees and others trying to quiz Him on scriptural knowledge, Jesus’ reply was quite simple: “You don’t actually know enough!”
The more I read the bible the more I get to learn. The more I study it, the more I see there is to study and understand about God.
Don’t ever think you will get to the stage where you can tell God what He should have done – He is perfect, not you!
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2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
As we get closer to the end of times we are warned about how things will seem to get worse for us on earth; not just wars, earthquakes and the such, but people will grow more evil.
The more we see the people around us in various positions of power, the more we will see corruption and deceit as people strive to lift themselves up instead of God.
Pride and greed take over and evil walks straight in the door and takes a hold of that life!
Don’t be deceived by kind words if they are not backing up those words with kind deeds…
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2 Timothy 3:17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
God has made sure we have a wonderful resource in our hands, our bibles; the words of which were inspired by Him for our good.
Jesus came to earth not to show us all up but to fulfil the prophecies and show us we can fully depend on Him.
As long as we depend on Him through this resource He has given to us, we have hope of doing His good work.
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Colossians 2:3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Whether this refers to the gospel or to Christ Himself, we have all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge to hand – we just need to ask.
How do we ask? In prayers to God through Christ or by picking up our bibles and reading the gospel story!
When Christ promised us He would be here for all our needs, it was a promised He had already started in motion; we just did not know it yet.