Jeremiah 31:3b – …I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. I am so glad that God chooses to love me. His incredible love of me is overwhelming. See, I know what I have done and been during a different time in my life. Though God has forgiven me I remember and recoil at all…
Continue ReadingPsalm 34:18 – The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Jeremiah 29:13 – You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Isaiah 40:11 – He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart; He…
Continue Reading1 Peter 2:7-9 – Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined…
Continue ReadingProverbs 11:2 – When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. Ezekiel 33:11 – Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people…
Continue ReadingActs 2:1-4 – When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were…
Continue ReadingActs 2:1-4 – When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were…
Continue Reading2 Samuel 6:16, 20-23 – As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart. When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said,…
Continue ReadingPhilippians 1:9 “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight” Jesus was and is our model of how to love. He loved because that is who He was and is. So must we love the same way. Not grudgingly, but rushing to do what is…
Continue ReadingActs 10:34-35 – “Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.” Romans 10:12 – For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all…
Continue ReadingLuke 1:15b – “he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.” Romans 10:9-10 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess…
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