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His Kingdom
“But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” This is the scripture that God spoke to me as we approached the new year. As I meditated, it became very clear to me what God was trying to show me. Put your seat belts on because you’re…
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Humility
“God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” When we look in the mirror of the word, and see who we are in relationship to God, we have to make a choice. Do we understand how weak and frail we are or do we just fluff it off and continue to…
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Healed by His Word
“He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” “I’m not ashamed of the Gospel, for it’s the power of God unto salvation.” “Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ.” If you need a healing of any type, and it could come to your spirit, your mind…
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Brokenhearted
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” “For thou does not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; Thou are not pleased with burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, Thou will not despise.” There are a lot of things in this…
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Live by Faith in This Cursed World
“For my angel shall go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.” It is imperative that we look closely at this situation. God brought them into this land called Canaan. First, we must understand…
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Hath God Said?
When God created the world, He spoke the Word to do it. That shouldn’t be a surprise to us. John tells us that, “All things come into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” He is the Word. You see, if God is going to create…
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Sustainable faith
When I was in the Naval Submarine force we would pull into port for what we called Refit. During this time we would do all of our PMs, or Preventive Maintenance. These PMs where done on all kind of different things in all kinds of different systems, to identify if there where any parts that…
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The Power to Preach the Gospel
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” “And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled…
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Rise Up
“And Elisha died and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites would invade the land in the spring of the year. And as they were burying a man, behold, they saw a marauding band; and they cast the man into the grave of Elisha. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha…
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In the Midst
“Then Nebuchadnezzar the King was astounded and stood up in haste; he responded and said to his high officials, “Was it not three men that we cast bound in the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “certainly, Oh king.” He answered and said, “Look! I see four men loosed and…
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Fear is Available
“Without faith it’s impossible to please God” Fear paralysis faith. You might say that they are opposites. When one is there the other isn’t. That’s what’s going on in the world today. If the enemy can stop our faith, then we will be unable, or, incapable of doing anything for God. This pandemic is one…
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Perfect, We’re not!
“If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” I have an inmate who is always arguing with me. Whatever church he came from taught him that when we get saved we don’t sin anymore. When we receive Jesus we become perfect. Now, even though I…
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Delivering Power
“Thou art my hiding place; Thou dost preserve me from trouble; Thou dost surround me with songs of deliverance.” Deliverance has so many different meanings within the Word of God. The truth is that salvation is all about deliverance. God’s delivers us from all of our sin. He delivers us from sickness and disease. He…
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Breaking the Curse
Deuteronomy 28:1+15, “Now it shall be, if you will diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you…
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Hope
“let us exalt in hope of the glory of God.” This is a wonderful time, or season of the year. The birth of our Savior into this world. In Isaiah He is called, “Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace, Wonderful Counselor. If you look at these names you will see the Father, the Son…
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Is Anything Impossible For God
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but God’s Word shall endure forever.” I heard a story told by Dr. Mark Rutland about being in college and wounding up in an Atheist’s class. The first day of class the professor said, “Is anyone in here a Christian? Is there anyone in here who believes in God?”…
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God’s Free Gifts
2 Corinth 9:15,” Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” James 1:17, “Every good thing bestowed, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights, in whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.” Everything in the Word of God is free. Everything! All we have to do is…
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Man’s Trust Issue
In Genesis 2:15-17 it says, “Then the Lord God took man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. And the Lord commanded the man saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall…
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Do You Believe?
But Abraham said, “They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.” “But he said, “No, Father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!” But he said to him, “If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from…
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The Morning Star
Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come. He who overcomes, and he keeps My deeds until the end, “to him I will give authority over the nations; and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I have also received authority…
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Word of His Power
“He upholds all things by the word of His power” “So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire!” Have you ever prayed and not got an answer? Maybe you stood in the gap for someone and when it was all…
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Adullam
“And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.” David had slid into a cave and was running for his life. Saul was out to kill him and had…
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Fear of Variant D
” For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline.” Every time I turn on the TV, or the radio, or open up a newspaper or the internet, a funny thing happens. Oh, I should be used to this by now. After all, it’s the very same…
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Free From Sin
“for he who has died is freed from sin.” Wow! I don’t know about you but this statement is one of the hardest, or maybe the most confusing statement to me in the Bible. I don’t mean that I don’t understand it. I simply mean putting it into reality. I know that one day we…
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Don’t Forget
“Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities: Who heals all your diseases: Who redeems your life from the pit. What does he mean to forget not? Well, the basic meaning of forget in this case means to lay something aside and forget it. Have you…
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An Interruption
“Who satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.” I recently heard a story where Gloria Gaither said, “God always shows up in the interruptions of life.” I thought about it and what she said made total sense. As we walk with God through life He is always…
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Just Love People
1 John 3:23, “And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.” I like to walk a lot. There are numerous reasons for this. First, at my age it is good for my health. I used to…
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Glory
Isaiah 60:1-3, “Arise shine; for your light is come. And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and deep darkness the peoples: but the Lord will rise upon you. And the nations will come to your light.” In Genesis 1:3 this whole thing started by God…
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Free Gifts
2 Corinth 9:15, ” Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” Since it is Christmas, let’s talk about gifts. You see God’s gifts are all free. That is something that most of us don’t understand in our world. Let me prove that statement to you before we proceed. Suppose someone who you don’t normally…
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Life in 2020
We have seen a lot of ups and downs through this year. We should not be surprised. Jesus said that, “In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” So we should not flinch at the things around us that are happening. Whether it’s Covid or the elections, or whether…
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Rebuild With Purity
“Thus says the Lord of Hosts, ‘ask now for a ruling; if a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches bread with the fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’ And the priests answered and said, ‘No.’ Then Haggai said, ‘if one who…
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Self Life
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” This is a vital lesson for us, and probably the most important one we’ll ever learn. We must renew our minds! This is not our brain (material part) but this is our mind (immaterial part). We bring salvation…
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Temptation
“Let no man say when he is tempted; “I am being tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted by evil and He Himself does not tempt anyone.” How many times do I hear people say that, “God is tempting me to test me,” or something to that effect. The Word of God clearly states…
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Trouble Always Arises
“And when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people of the exile were building a temple to the Lord God of Israel, they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the households and said to them, let us build with you.” On the surface this looks good but they had another motive. After…
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Faith is Now!
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” The first 3 words in this definition of faith, if you will, are of the most vital importance if we are to receive His blessings into our life, “Now faith is.” Now for those English majors or for a novice…
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Never Again by Water
“and it shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the Earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.” God…
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Saved Through Fire
” For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with…
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First Resurrection
“Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years!” What is the first resurrection? Basically it is the rapture, which means a snatching…
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Keep Focused and Stay Strong
“Therefore, since we have such a great cloud if witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set…
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Don’t Expect Truth
“Why do you not understand what I’m saying? It is because you can’t hear my word. You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning , and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.…
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Revelation/End Times
I’m teaching a new series on the Book of Revelation/End Times. It is meant to bless you and inform you about what is to come. The End Times are not as hard as you think they might be. The best news about all of it is that, if you are “Born Again,” you won’t have…
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The Sign of Jonah
“For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of Man be to this generation.” How did Jonah become a sign to the Ninevites? The answer is simple. He was walking around the city when they heard that he had been swallowed by a great sea monster. The fact that…
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What Causes Compromise?
“The Law was given through Moses; Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.” The Law shows us the Holiness of God. It shows us perfection and completion. But more then anything else, it shows us how weak we are in relationship to God. It taught us that we can’t do it on our own.…