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He is Ready to Forgive
When He died…I did not exist… except in His mind. I was just another unborn sinner with a lifetime of future offenses. But I was known. He knew the lost and broken soul. And He was ready to forgive my sins before I had done any of them… on the morning I first drew breath……
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One Desire
One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. ~ Psalm 27:4 If you could ask for one thing from God, what would…
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Insight: Oswald Chambers On Worship
This message was given at the Bible Training College in London (February-June 1915), where Chambers was teaching a course called Missionary Matters. Guest lecturers included well-known missionaries and evangelical leaders, such as C.T Studd. Chambers did not know that the school would close in a few months because of Great Britain’s involvement in World War I, or that…
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Intimacy and Infinity
So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on…
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What God Starts, God Finishes
“…being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6 Does the Bible really say that? I was stunned sitting in that pew on a Sunday night… and deeply moved. A few months earlier I had been sitting…
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Conquered
“… You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 The kingdom of God is not an amusement park seeking to distract me occasionally from the daily grind. His kingdom is not a self-improvement program, working to make me a superior person, and the…
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Rest in Christ
The secret of resting in Christ — and experiencing the peace He wants to give me in every circumstance — lies in abandoning myself into His control and care. I am not resting in Him if I am clinging to the illusion that I can manage my life, relegating Him to the role of a…
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The Inner Vision
“…looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or…
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“Pray like this…”
My Father Unseen, but always seeing me Your name… let it be deeply revered by all Your kingdom… let it come, Your ruling Presence Your will… let it be fully expressed on earth in my circumstances as it is in heaven where Your will is unopposed Today Here are my needs, I leave them all…
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The Coasting Christian
“Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.” ~ Hebrews 2:1 You and I need to beware of “coasting” as a Christian… like a ship without an anchor, a Christian can “drift away” from a life lived by faith. Why? Coasting is effortless. Coasting happens…