Category: Inspiration
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Who is Right?
Believers are often divided by various philosophical and political leanings. Each group claims their perspective is the only correct way, and all others are wrong. God has something to say to us as we “gloat” in the idea that we are right and all others are wrong. In the midst of our political and philosophical…
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Foolish Confidence
It is better to be confident than to be fearful. But there is something called foolish confidence. Such people are confident but their confidence has no foundation. The Psalmist calls it “foolish confidence”. “This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts” (Psa 49:13). Those with…
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How Safe Are You?
You thought you were safe. You were in your area of safety and thought everything was perfectly in order. In such a situation, you have no fear of things going bad. You are in your safety zone. For the Israelites, Jerusalem was their zone of safety. They had nothing to fear. The walls of the…
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What if Repentance was the Norm?
What if the Israelites had cried out to the Lord in repentance? What if they had returned to Yahweh in sackcloth and ashes? What if they had turned from their wicked ways? If their repentance began with kings and priests, then the people might have followed that pattern. That would have changed the entire trajectory…
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God’s Wife?
Throughout the Old Testament, God uses the marriage relationship as a metaphor for his relationship with the people of Israel. God uses metaphors for the sake of communicating with us. Since he is in the spirit realm, we would not be able to grasp everything. But when he uses imagery from our physical realm, we…
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Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
When the struggles of life become greater than our expectations, we begin to wonder if God has forgotten us. We cry out to God in our distress, but he seems so far away. We cry louder and longer, but there’s no response from God. He must be asleep! This is what the Psalmist felt. Now,…
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Words of Power
The power of words. Who would have imagined? Words have the power to “pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” (Jer 1:10) This reality began with creation, where words spoken by God brought the world into existence. Now his words continue to create through our words. …
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Self talk
When things go out of control, your situation may seem hopeless. As you dwell on the situation, your perception may gradually degenerate. Your feeling of hopelessness may go even deeper. But in the midst of our hopelessness, even when we see no solution, God is our solution. The psalmist experienced lots of turmoil and heartache,…
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Fear and presence
When you are in real and immediate danger, fear is inevitable. Not only is fear a real part of our experience, but we can also easily be controlled by fear. But as a child of God, we are to be in control, not fear. As the Israelites were about to enter their promised land, they…
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Why do bad things happen to good people?
We’ve all heard this statement: “It’s sad, but why does such tragedy happen to such good people?” Surely, no one would speak against this statement. Job was a man about whom God himself bragged on. God said, have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and…
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