Category Archives: love

Healing is a choice

Matthew 8:1-4  Jesus Cleanses a Leper When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus … Continue reading

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Matthew 9:35-38 The Harvest Is Plentiful, the Laborers Few 35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 When he … Continue reading

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By Authority

2 Corinthians 10:7-8 7 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we. 8 For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which … Continue reading

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Unity in the Body of Christ

Ephesians 4: 1-16 1a I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord… Some of the most powerful words in the bible are not the nouns or the verbs, but the conjunctions. What jumped at me right off is that Paul did not … Continue reading

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Isaiah 48:17-19 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. 18 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace … Continue reading

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Shine Brightly for Christ

Philippians 2:12-18  Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, … Continue reading

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Sanctification Simplified

2 Peter 1:3-8 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his … Continue reading

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False Prophets

Jeremiah 23:16-17 16 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the … Continue reading

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Evil

1 John 5:19 (NIV) We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. I awoke this morning to the screams of my own voice. The nightmare was vivid, I … Continue reading

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Good Soil

Matthew 13:23  As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty. Well, I got mostly … Continue reading

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