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Isaiah 65:24 Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.
One of the most amazing things that we get to learn and experience is answered prayers. I still find it amazing that Christ will listen to my personal prayers that I lift up to Him. No matter where I am or what I am doing, when I pray to Him, He listens and hears me!
As we read through our bibles we then begin to learn that when we ask Him for things, He also answers our prayers!
It is nice to ask people and have then answer you. It is even better when they do what you ask. It is even better still when they seem to know what you need and do it before you even get round to asking!
That is what God does for us. He knows what we need and knows what is best for us, giving things to us even before we ask sometimes!
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Luke 23:43 Jesus answered him, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.’
If you think that you have been too terrible for God to forgive you, then take in these words. This was a man who was being crucified next to Jesus, the punishment reserved for the most wicked people, a man who probably could not get much worse than he was…
And yet when he turned to Christ and believed that He was who He is, Jesus forgave him there and then. Jesus invited him to be with Him in heaven.
That same invitation is open to each one of us no matter how far we have already gone; all we need do is to admit we are that bad and turn to Christ asking for His forgiveness.
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John 6:37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
Jesus is never going to drive anyone away. His aim is to invite all people to follow Him because he wants us all to be saved from the life that we fall into. He knows that we are going to sin and get things wrong, even rejecting Him… But He will never drive us away.
We may run off in the other direction. We may do terrible things like Judas Iscariot did; but He is always ready to forgive and forget so that we can join Him in eternity.
What amazing love He continues to show us every day of our lives, inviting us to come and share His wonderful place called heaven.
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Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God
When you see an exclusive offer it is an offer that is not available anywhere else. But when we see offers in shops we can normally hunt around and find someone who is going to offer us something better or close to it.
When it comes to getting to heaven, the offer is most definitely totally exclusive because nobody else can ever get us to heaven. God’s gift to us is that we can get to heaven because it is His personal invitation to us.
Is there a catch? Not a catch, but a requirement. We must trust Him that He will deliver on His promise.
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James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
One thing that I learned last year was that the best gifts don’t necessarily come from the places or people you expect. The best gifts are those that come from the heart, from someone who loves you without reserve.
God’s love for us is without question, without limit and without conditions; so we can expect Him to be able to give us things that we can only dream of – and He does. The gifts He gives us go far beyond earthly riches or wants because He supplies our needs.
God has always been this way and will always be this way because His love never changes.
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Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Have you ever wondered why you get into trouble when you just go with your heart? If we base our life on emotional responses we are going to get into all sorts of trouble because our emotions do tend to fill up and spill out a lot quicker than wisdom.
God wants us to be able to enjoy life so He has given us the gift of emotions, and they are important. But He has also given us the ability to stop and think and then to say what is right rather than saying the emotional response we want to say.
Don’t just say something because you feel like it – you may end up saying something you don’t want to say. Be patient and wait for God to sort out your tongue…
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Proverbs 24:26 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Ok, so I couldn’t resist a kiss on Valentine’s day!
If you want to show someone today just how much they mean to you, then you need to be totally honest with them. Being honest and open will go a whole lot further than a kiss on the lips because it will reach deep down into their hearts.
Yes it can be a scary thing to reach down into someone’s heart, but that is what we need to do in order to be able to live a true life with others. It is not just about a kiss or a hug, love is about sharing your heart, not in part, but in full!
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Psalm 64:9 All people will fear; they will proclaim the works of God and ponder what he has done.
No matter what we get up to, no matter what we believe, no matter what we ignore in life, each of us one day will have to face Jesus Christ in person. If that is the time when we finally get to believe that He is real I guess then we will be a bit late in our belief – but believe we will!
The more that we are able to see how much God has done in the history of the earth, the more we will realise just how awesome He is. What we choose to do that that new-found knowledge is our choice.
We can continue to ignore God, or we can turn and face Him and believe in Him. I would rather do it now than face Him later…
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Galatians 5:23 (fruits of the spirit continued) gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Yesterday we touched on the sort of life that we would expect in a Christian because that is what God wants us to have. Today we look at it from the worlds point of view. If we have peace, love and joy in our lives the world is going to become jealous of our lives.
We need to display gentleness and self-control to make sure that we show others they can have this too. There is no law against us having a wonderful life; but the world will seem like it is against us because we dare to be different and enjoy what God gives us!
God has given us a wonderful and bountiful life – if we choose to follow Him and trust in Him to give us that life. I have it, you can too!
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Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
When you look at other people what do you see? If you see someone who is at peace with their life, someone who always smiles, someone who is willing to love others, someone who puts up with grief from others, someone who only dishes out kindness and someone who always seems to be there; then I put it to you that you are looking at a Christian who is depending on God.
This is the sort of life that God would want each of us to have and one that He promotes through other Christians.
God has created this world the way that it is, but He still loves us enough to want us to live a beautiful life with Him.
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1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
We always find it easier to make friends with someone if they are first willing to be friends with us or are friendly toward us. But if someone has an issue with us or is just plain unfriendly, making friends can be very hard.
God has loved us from the beginning and has continued to show us that love throughout time. We often turn away from Him and wonder why we get into trouble; but because He loves us He wants us to straighten our lives out and will encourage us to do so.
People may come into our lives and show us love and friendship without asking for anything in return. It just may be that God has brought them to you to allow you to know His ways and His love.
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Psalm 116:1 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy.
Some people ask me why I do the things that I do for God. They ask me why I do things without question. They ask me why I do things where others will not. This verse sums up why I do things for God.
I work for God because He listens to me, answers me and does so much more for me. I do things for God to show Him that I love Him for everything He does for me.
I honour my Father in heaven for all that He does for me. I honour Him through working for and with Him. Are you willing to step forward with us?
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Proverbs 15:5 A fool despises his father’s instruction, but he who receives correction is prudent.
Ok, so we are not all perfect – but I guess you may have worked that one out already, especially when you look at me! Seriously though, we do make mistakes and we do have to take time out to say we are sorry.
But if we spurn the people who point out our mistakes or want to show us the right way of doing things, we are saying to them that we don’t care about doing things right or fixing mistakes – basically we are telling them that we are stupid because we don’t want to learn!
God gave us the bible so that we could spot our mistakes. Once we do that and move on, we will be able to do a whole lot more rather than breaking things continually…
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Exodus 20:12 Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
How often do you try find out the top ten? Doesn’t matter what in, but we always want to know what the top ten items are in one way or another. We often look on the Ten Commandments as the top ten in that they are the ones we should focus on; but God wants us to follow His Word, not just the top ten list.
God does not just want us to tick the boxes but actually do what His Word says. So when it says that we should honour our parents, He means it! We need to respect them because they are the ones who have done so much for us… but there will also be times when we all mess up so we may have to say we are sorry and start again…
God wants us to realise we can say sorry to Him as well…
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Matthew 19:19 ‘Honour your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’
Besides the obvious “don’t kill, don’t cheat, don’t steal and don’t lie” Christ wants us to remember that we do need to think of others, not just our parents because other people need our help and support as well. There are so many people who do need help that it may be hard for us to see who we should help first… Well, start with your neighbours…
You will be surprised at how many people will accept help if you offer it; and then you may be equally surprised when others turn round and offer you help when they see you needing it.
Don’t wait to see if someone is “worthy” of being helped. Help them and show them that they are…
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2 Peter 2:18 For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
One of the hardest things to accept in life is teachers who will tell you a bunch of lies instead of the truth. These are the people who should be giving you the truth so that you can learn; but there are those few that do not.
I am not talking of teachers in school but the people around you who will talk as if they know so much but tell you lies instead. Just when we escape from those people around us who we recognise as evil or bad company, we are at our most vulnerable and we may well believe a lie just because it sounds good enough.
Don’t give in because something sounds good – find out the truth because that is what God wants you to have.
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1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
No matter how good you think you are, if you continue to watch bad things, mix with bad people and listen to bad people, then you will start to become used to those bad things, allowing them into your life.
Before long you may well be doing the same things as them, those very things that may have turned you off in the beginning now become part of your life, part of your being.
God wants us to be separate from these characters so that we will not be corrupted – it is much easier to give in to them that to train them in what they should be doing!
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Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.
If you are going to hang around with people who don’t care about themselves or their surroundings then you will pretty soon give in and become more like them.
But if you are willing to stand up against the rot and try to learn from those around you, then you will become wiser. The more you learn the more you will be able to help yourself and those around you. The more you learn from those around you the more you will be able to do!
But if you give in a just sit around waiting for things to fall apart around you, then that is all you will get…
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Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.
How easy do you find it to listen to others? It is amazing how easy we pick up on other peoples conversations even when we should not be listening to them. Because we listen we then begin to think about what they are saying and before long we then think that maybe we should give it a try…
It is so easy to get involved in what others are saying and doing without realising that it is happening. Once we start to get on that road we find it harder to stop – just like stepping on to an escalator, once you are on it you move with it without doing anything.
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Psalm 59:7 See what they spew from their mouths – the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, ‘Who can hear us?’
How many times do you just say what you want and don’t care who hears it? Or how many times do you say something about someone just because they cannot hear you at the time?
We are all guilty of doing things like this at some time or another, but what we do forget is that God will always hear you! No matter how far we think we are away from people, God is always close by us.
And it is not just the things we say out loud but those thoughts we have and those things that we do. We may not think we are affecting others, but we always do!