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Job 13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
How many times do you get really down about the things you do wrong and the ways you hurt God?
We all have our moments remembering some of the things we do wrong and other times we want to be able to remember them more so we can bring them before God.
What God says is He will separate us from our sins altogether, putting them totally behind us and allowing us a clean slate.
We need to be able to remember just how much God does forgive us and to let our sins be covered by Christ.
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Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties;
Have you ever offered to help someone and then regretted it because they actually want you to do more than you thought?
When you offer to help someone it should be an open offer that you are willing to extend and not one bound by a rigid unloving contract.
Marrying someone with a contract sitting over you is not really marrying someone for love…
God would like us to love Him openly and be willing to extend our love. He will require more of us than we thought because He actually knows how much has to be done – unlike us!
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Jeremiah 17:10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.
Even though we cannot see when we are going wrong until after it all collapses around our ankles, God sees everything all of the time!
When we do listen to God we will find out just how much He tests our resolve by searching our hearts and making sure we search our hearts.
He also searches our minds to make sure we think things through and don’t just act on impulse.
God then will reward us according to what we are doing. Just believing is enough to save us, but doing God’s will is what He would prefer us to do.
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Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
Where does the worshipping of idols come from? Where does the pride come from? Where does greed stem from?
They all start in our hearts. They start out as a little sparkle or a tiny idea and grow into something that takes over our hearts before we know it!
We don’t often see the fault until after it has all gone wrong, until we have hurt others and ourselves.
If you need to trust anything then trust in the Word of God because it is a sure thing, unlike our hearts.
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Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The more we can get to grips with what God has inspired people to write, the more we get to grips with God’s will.
God chose the right people to write the scriptures. He did not choose the ultimate scholars because people like me would struggle to read the bible.
He did not choose philosophers who knew people intimately because that would worry people like me.
Instead He chose ordinary people to explain in ordinary ways His will and His ways as best they could.
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Song of Solomon 3:1 By night on my bed I sought the one I love; I sought him, but I did not find him.
Unless we meet with Christ we will constantly be seeking something in our lives and we may not even understand what we are looking for.
When you are away from the one you love you are constantly thinking of them and longing for the time when you can be together again.
That is the love we should display for our Lord and God. His love for us meant He did not leave us alone but rose from the dead and gave us direction and support.
Seek everything by seeking God just as He came looking for you in the beginning.
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John 20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).
Jesus came into this world to seek and save the lost. He did not come into the world to confuse us and to cause chaos.
And yet so many people try to tell stories that confuse and cause Chaos just so that they can feel better in themselves in some manner.
Mary needed to weep and mourn to get over the feelings and grief she was going through and Jesus knew that. He stopped and waited until the time was right.
Then without hesitation he stepped up to the mark and changed the world for Mary. He can do the same for you too if you are patient.
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John 17:9 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
As a human man, Jesus lifted up His prayers to God just as we should. He did not pray for the world and all the sin of the world but for all of us who were destined for Heaven.
Jesus’ ministry was to seek and to save the lost but he also knew that the found needed caring for always.
Just because we are saved from our sin debt does not mean that we can be ignored by our God. He cares for us and wants to keep us safe from all things.
Let us lift each other up in prayer knowing what Christ has done for us many years ago.
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John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Jesus tried to tell the disciples what he could before giving His life up on the cross, but He could not give away everything otherwise they could have stopped this all!
Jesus made sure that His death was still going to happen and that He could be sacrificed for us. He knew the consequences but He knew the consequences if He failed…
Christ loves us so very much and we need to remember that. This day when we remember His death on the cross, remember what He was doing – and He knew what He was doing!
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John 13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
Jesus always made sure that He carried things out to completion and did not leave things half finished.
How many times do we try to start something only to give up because we find it too difficult or because we find we cannot do it, or even because we just don’t want to?
Jesus made sure He did not promise what He could not do. He made sure He did carry out promises. He made sure of this all because of His love for us.
He loves us and continues to love us even now.
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Isaiah 50:6 I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
Jesus willingly gave Himself up to face some terrible hours at the end of His life as a human man.
He allowed people to accuse Him and sentence Him to death on the cross. He allowed people to whip Him on the back. He allowed people to pluck out His beard. And He allowed people to mock and shame Him.
He did not do this because He is weak but because He is very strong and His love for us goes so much further than these punishments!
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Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”
Imagine what a host of angels would sound like? I wonder, have you ever heard a very large choir singing Hosanna?
It is awesome to hear a load of people singing in tune and sounding really beautiful, so a choir from Heaven is going to be just breath-taking!
Now think about what it is they are actually singing! Think about the fact they are singing praise to God Himself and then singing a blessing to us!
God is good all the time. All the time, God is good!
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Matthew 21:9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!”
When the people were shouting out their praise they were also making sure that people understood why… They were shouting out praise to the Son of David.
That means they were praising their Messiah, lifting up this person as the chosen one, the one foretold in the prophecies.
When you tell people about Christ do you make sure they know you are praising God and not just some prophet?
Lift up Christ in praise as your Lord and King today and let people know!
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Mark 11:9 Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
There were two groups of people with Jesus as He entered into Jerusalem, those in front of Him and those behind Him.
Some had followed from Jericho which was a short distance away. Some met Him in Jerusalem.
But no matter where they came from, they were lifting up His name and praising Him. How bold and brave would they have to be to do that in spite of the Sanhedrin?
Jesus knows what it takes. Are you willing to give what it takes?
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Romans 14:7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
If we are living for or to ourselves then we will get nothing more out of life than we can put into it – which is a bit of a disappointment really!
Putting everything into your working life will bring great rewards, but at what cost to your soul and your spirit?
I did like earning lots of money and spending it too, but that never gave me the love, joy and peace that I now have with my life in Christ.
Be brave and do things for Christ to see how much more your will get from life with others!
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1 Peter 4:2 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
If you say that lust can be a powerful thing then you have just fallen into the trap – lust is the most powerful thing that will drive us away from righteousness.
I am not just talking about the lust of the flesh either, though most people will identify with that when the word is said.
Lust will make us do so much more than we should do because it is like a black hole that sucks everything into itself, hiding the light of truth.
God’s will is not that we follow our lust but think about His will and try to follow Him.
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Colossians 3:2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
Throughout God’s Word we are reminded to think more about spiritual matters and more about what is in store for us in Heaven than to dwell on the things of this earth.
If we focus on the earthly things then we are focusing on dwindling or vanishing things instead of the greatness that God can offer us.
Focusing on fleshly things will make us live for them instead of living for God; so focus on the things of God and you are more likely to live for God!
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Psalm 31:19 Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men!
Where does fear of the Lord turn into belief in Christ? It may be a very grey line for some people who are searching for something special…
When we are willing to lay aside our expectations of a grand parade or special return party then we are able to accept that belief itself as being the special event.
Don’t go looking for earthly rewards to believing in Christ because you may well be disappointed in what you find and turn away from the goal.
God wants us to believe as we are so He can work with us.
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Psalm 33:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
It is easy at times to lift up praise to God when we are in a congregation all singing for joy or when we are happy and content, but maybe not so easy when we have problems.
What we need to remember is that God is the same whether we have issues or not. He continues to be God and continues to support us.
All we need to do is to look at all He has done throughout time to see that we need to remember to praise Him always.
Let your praises be lifted up because God is God. He is all powerful and He does know everything.
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Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
If you think that obedience is something that you should only do when you think it right, then take a look back in the Old Testament where it reminds us of the importance of obedience.
God takes it very seriously and laid down laws to make sure that we take it seriously too; so much so that our lives would depend on it!
If God is telling us that is how important it is we should be standing up and taking notice, not putting it down to some excuse or other.
Listen to God. Listen to Him carefully and obey!