Tag: Christian devotional
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (4)
Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him. Psalm 127:3 NLT Thanks for coming back, friend! I hope you are enjoying this month’s series on God’s good and perfect gifts. Since this series was inspired by my on-going, and so far unsuccessful, attempt to find good Christmas gifts for my…
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God’s Good and Perfect Gifts (3)
For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift – Ephesians 2:8 CSB “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.” I know it’s not a Christmas hymn, but as I prepared to write today’s devotion, I couldn’t stop humming “Amazing Grace”.…
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Thankful for Calvary
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24 CSB Earlier this week, I had the blessing of hearing a song titled “Calvary’s Enough” by Brooke Ligertwood. If you haven’t heard it, I encourage you to check…
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Thankful for Patience
36 Then Gideon said to God, “If You will deliver Israel by my hand, as You said, 37 I will put a fleece of wool here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that You will deliver Israel by my strength, as…
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Thankful for Discernment
5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask. What should I give you?” 6 And Solomon replied, “You have shown great and faithful love to your servant, my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, righteousness, and integrity. You have continued this great and faithful…
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Thankful for Discipline
1 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from inside the fish: 2 I called to the Lord in my distress, and He answered me. I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol; You heard my voice. 3 You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current…
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Thankful for Grace
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 CSB Later this week, I am headed to a statewide reading conference with the Walking in Truth devotional book and the two teacher discipleship resources, Teaching Practices that Testify (Peace, Hope), that God has…
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By grace, through faith…
Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. Hebrews 11:1 CSB I long to see God. I mean, really SEE Him, walk with Him, hold His hand. I envy Adam and Eve and their evening walks in the garden with God. I wish for the Old…
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Adonai: Lord, Master
Sweet friends, this post is going to wrap up our series: Thankful for the Many Names of God! I hope this series has led you to a deeper understanding of Who God is and a greater reverence for His name. To close out, it seems most fitting to look at one final name: Adonai which…
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Yahweh Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness
The name “The Lord Our Righteousness” literally means that God has fulfilled all requirements of the law for us. What law is that? The law that He gave Moses to ensure the people would be able to stay in fellowship with Him. The law that started with 10 commandments and grew to hundreds because we…
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