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walkthroughtheword · 1 day

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Dear God, please help me to be steady when the storms hit. I don’t want to get thrown around by my emotions or concerns. I want to abide in Jesus Christ, my rock and my foundation. I want to be like Jesus who, in the face of pain and adversary, looked to you. I pray for all of this in the strong name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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byfaithmedia · 4 months

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You are never alone 📖

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leonbloder · 30 days

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Render Unto

According to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus on Tuesday of Holy Week, religious and political leaders came together to try and trick Jesus with a slippery question. They asked Jesus "Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor or not?"

If Jesus had answered "No," they would have reported him to the authorities for sedition. If Jesus had answered "Yes," he would have been discredited in the eyes of the common people, who flocked to hear him speak.

Instead, Jesus asked them to bring him a Roman coin that was stamped with Caesar's image. He took the coin, and then asked, "Whose head is this, and whose title?" They replied, "The emperor's."

Then Jesus said, "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar and to God the things that are God's."

This response forces the crowd to ask two follow-up questions.

The first question would have been, "What belongs to God?" And the answer for Jesus and many of the people who were gathered there would have been: "Everything."

Then they would have asked, "So, then what belongs to Caesar?" Jesus slyly implies that the answer to that question is, in fact, "Nothing."

Jesus' words must have sent a thrill through the common people standing there listening.

To people who felt that they had nothing and Caesar and his crowd had everything, it was an amazing, liberating moment to hear that God, the Creator, and Sustainer of the Universe was for them and that they belonged to Him, not to Caesar.

The same thrill should fill our hearts as well.

Although we may be forced from time to time to deal with corrupt political realities... Although we may struggle with the hypocrisy of religious institutions who often collude with the Empire of the day... We are not owned by them.

We belong to God. And our belonging to God sets us free.

You see, true freedom comes when we realize God's great love for us, and we respond to that love by offering to God our heart, soul mind, and strength--in other words, everything.

When we let go of all of the things that are holding us back from loving God, we are set free.

True freedom comes when we learn to love our neighbor by breaking down the false divisions created by the Empire to keep us in our places.

When we are finally able to see the world as God sees it, we are free to love others unconditionally.

May you experience the great joy and freedom that comes from knowing that in life and death, you belong to God. May you find peace in the knowledge that when God is for you, nothing can truly stand against you.

And may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen.

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niikoi · 1 year

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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/hab.2.14.KJV #bible #quiettime #bibleverse #dailydevotional #jesus #youversion https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQfJ1rKzIO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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heavensmysteries · 1 year

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GALATIANS 1

In Paul's time there were now as many non-Jews as there were Gentiles. This sparked a huge debate (please read Acts 15).

Acts 15: 1 ''Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers, "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved."

Historically, God's covenant people were of one ethnic group-the Jews. Jewish people were set apart by the practices commanded in the Torah. An example would be, by observing the Sabbath. When the Gentiles became saved, many Messianic Jews were meeting in churches in Galatia and commanding the Gentiles to obey the Torah. They argued that in order for the Gentiles to be accepted into God's family, they needed to be circumcised.

Paul was deeply saddened upon hearing this. He wrote that the Gospel could not be altered and those who were infiltrating the Gospel, would be under God's curse. Paul spoke of how the Gospel that the Jews received had not been perverted!

Do you remember the story of Acts 16? Paul and Silas were in prison praying and singing hymns; suddenly, there was a great earthquake and all the prisoner's chains became loose. What astonished me about this chapter is that the jailer wanted to commit suicide. He knew that he would eventually be killed if there were no prisoners inside the jail cells! It would have been extremely hard to prove to the Council and the Chief Magistrates that the gates of the prison cell flew open because of a 'violent earthquake'. What also astonishes me is that after Paul shouted in v.28 "Don't harm yourself, we are all here!" the jailer knew that a Miraculous Power had done this. He fell trembling at their feet and said "What must i do to be saved?"

Acts 16:31

They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved- you and all your household."

This is the same Gospel that was preached to the Gentiles, firstly to the Jews. Therefore gospels of Inclusion, Prosperity, Works and other beliefs that do not align with the above, are sent from Satan.

Feel free to ask questions!

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deeeryfawn · 1 year

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LAST PAGE OF FEBRUARY!!! March is waving?? So how was your February? It was definitely a breeze for me. Read your Bible everyday! #devotional #dailydevotional #dailyverse #biblejournal #bib#biblejournalingdaily #biblejournalph #bulletjournalist #bulletjournalcommunity #bulletjournaljunkies #bujoph #bujo #bujo2023 #bujoinspiration #bujoweeklyspread #februarybujo #aesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/CpMOcLNv0Wu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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canuckster · 1 year

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#Repost @ourdailybread with @use.repost ・・・ Juror Number 8 The Bible in One Year: Leviticus 17–18; Matthew 27:27–50 Today's Bible Reading: Exodus 23:1–9 Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. Exodus 23:2 “One man is dead. Another man’s life is at stake,” says the judge somberly in the classic 1957 film 12 Angry Men. The evidence against the young suspect appears overwhelming. But during deliberations, it’s the brokenness of the jury that’s exposed. One of the twelve—juror number 8—votes “not guilty.” A heated debate ensues, in which the lone juror is mocked as he points out discrepancies in the testimony. Emotions escalate, and the jury members’ own murderous and prejudicial tendencies come to light. One by one, the jurors switch their votes to not guilty. When God gave His instructions to the new nation of Israel, He insisted on honest courage. “When you give testimony in a lawsuit,” God said, “do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd” (Exodus 23:2). Interestingly, the court was neither to “show favoritism to a poor person” (v. 3) nor to “deny justice to your poor people” (v. 6). God, the righteous judge, desires our integrity in all our proceedings. In 12 Angry Men, the second juror to vote "not guilty" said of the first, “It’s not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others.” Yet that’s what God requires. Juror number 8 saw the real evidence, as well as the humanity of the individual on trial. With the gentle guidance of His Holy Spirit, we too can stand for God’s truth and speak for the powerless. —TIM GUSTAFSON What tempts you to go along with the crowd? Where is God calling you to stand for truth and justice? Father, help us show Your love to the world as we stand for Your truth. #JurorNumber8 #OurDailyBread #DailyDevotional #VerseOfTheDay #FollowGod #JesusIsKing #DailyDevotionals #DailyBibleVerse #TheGospel #Bible #DailyQuotes #DailyInspiration #DailyDevotion #DailyScripture #DevotionTime #DevotionOfTheDay #ChristianWalk #PraiseGod #JesusLord #GodIsGood #FollowJesus https://www.instagram.com/p/CosGGbWM5Jd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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maglife17 · 9 months

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Prayer for You: May Joy and Miracles Find You!

“For nothing will be impossible with God.” Luke 1:37 I pray that just as Jacob had a life-changing encounter with God and received a new identity, may you also have an encounter with the Almighty in your circumstances. May God intervene in your life and turn your stories around for good. Jacob, once a deceitful man, had a life-altering encounter with God where he wrestled with Him and came out…

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#dailydevotional #Maglifedaily #Ahead #Jesus #Miracle #prayer

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hiswordsfortoday · 11 months

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ramsiboy · 9 months

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Free to Forgive

COLOSSIANS 3:12-17

Jesus, in the ultimate act of selfless love, took all the hurt and pain of sin and death in this world and carried it to the cross. This was an extremely heavy burden to bear. Yet God’s glory and power overcame this burden, conquering death and offering restoration, healing, and forgiveness to all who desire it.

Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, God extends to creation the gift and freedom of forgiveness. Yet the gift of forgiveness is sometimes hard to accept, and oftentimes we do not want to give it freely. Sometimes the wounds of past hurts are deep, and the pain we have to endure from them is overwhelming.

Forgiveness is not easy, but it is powerful and beautiful. Forgiveness does not condone the hurt against you. Forgiveness acknowledges the very real hurt you have experienced and then seeks to let go of feelings of anger and desires for revenge. Holding on to anger, harboring grudges, and wanting an offender to feel our hurt—or even more—can quickly consume our lives and trap us in bitterness and resentment. God wants so much more for us! Forgiveness opens up the door to fully live and experience all the joy, power, and freedom that God lovingly offers us.

May God’s love free you to forgive today.

#dailydevotional #medetation #godsword

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walkthroughtheword · 6 months

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Dear Lord, help me to not be afraid. Make me strong against worry and fear and bring peace. Lord, I don't want to be a worrier, I want to be a warrior for you. Thank you for fighting for me when I struggle to do it myself. I pray this all in Jesus' powerful name. Amen!

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byfaithmedia · 15 days

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Have you read your Bible today? 📖

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leonbloder · 2 months

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The Prosperity Gospel Isn't Good News

The prosperity gospel crowd (who claim that if you give to their church, you will get more back from God than you give) often misuses a verse from Matthew's Gospel to make their case.

Here, it is from the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible:

Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

A lot of biblical translations employ similar language for the last line of the verse, translating the last word as "money," "wealth," or "riches."

However, one version leaves intact in its original form the word used by the author of Matthew's Gospel, the Revised Standard Version (RSV). The word many other versions translate as "money" is mammon in the RSV.

Adherents and leaders within the prosperity gospel movement love this verse because it gives them an on-ramp to an argument that people should give more to their ministries.

Aside from being a gross and self-serving interpretation of the text, those who focus solely on translating mammon to money miss the whole point of the statement itself.

There's so much more here than a simple indictment of loving money more than God, so much more.

The word mammon refers to an entire system Fr. Richard Rohr describes as "disorder." Money may be a part of it, but the more expansive interpretation of mammon shows us that it includes power, inequality, oppression, and privilege.

Many scholars have further expanded the word mammon to be a slang reference to a Canaanite and Mesopotamian god who demanded sacrifices from his adherents, including the sacrifice of their children, in order to grant them their wishes.

In short, Jesus appears to be describing a system that acts like a false god or an idol that constantly demands more and more of us without offering anything in return other than emptiness and misery.

Those who short-change this interpretation by focusing solely on money unwittingly buy into what they say they are trying to avoid.

Jesus is saying here that you can't live in two worlds. You can't have one foot in the kingdom of God and another in the kingdom of mammon. There's no middle ground with this.

Fr. Richard Rohr puts it like this:

The love of God can’t be doled out by any process whatsoever. We can’t earn it. We can’t lose it. As long as we stay in this world of accumulation, of earning and losing, we’ll live in perpetual resentment, envy, or climbing.

This also needs to be said:

If you have ever been poor, you know what it's like to live in scarcity, to be uncertain whether to feed your family or keep the lights on because sometimes you must make that choice.

For some cynical preacher to take a verse like Matthew 6:24 and use it to prey primarily on people who don't have any wealth at all is unconscionable.

These preachers are either unwittingly or uncritically serving mammon when they do this. Their business model is grounded in accumulation and earning. The "gospel" they preach is a self-serving black hole that takes and takes but rarely gives.

God's love is not contingent upon how much or little we give to our church. God's love is unconditional. When we live with both feet firmly planted in God's kingdom, we become ambassadors of God's shalom.

We live out of the abundance of God's love rather than the scarcity of mammon.

When we live this way, our generosity is not coerced or an obligation. Our entire lives are an offering of gratitude for what God has done, is doing, and will do in our lives.

May we learn to live more fully out of this abundance. May we plant our feet firmly in God's kingdom of shalom. And may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us now and always. Amen.

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niikoi · 1 year

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As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalms 42:1 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/psa.42.1.KJV #bible #quiettime #bibleverse #dailydevotional #jesus #youversion https://www.instagram.com/p/CoyrBNEDKxX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bible #quiettime #bibleverse #dailydevotional #jesus #youversion

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be-encouraged · 1 year

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Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit - Romans 15:13

#verse #god #love #life #typography #bible verse #dailydevotional

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leah-not-lee · 1 year

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is typing....... . . . . Thanksgiving is coming. Do you find yourself bursting in praises of what the Lord had done for you? A few days ago, I've been pretty down due to the fact that I was facing financial issues. I was worried about it so much that I stopped communicating with my loved ones for a while. It was not until just now that the Lord had told me to stop worrying and to just sing praises to Him. Even Jesus told us that He'll provide everything for us. If the sparrows are well taken care of, then how much more valuable we are to Him than those little birds? I know I'm getting off topic with this, but even in the midst of your suffering, give praises. You can be glad that you have a strong Pillar you can rely on to hold you up. What are you thankful for? Is your thankfulness momentary? How can you give thanks in the midst of your suffering? Tags: #christian #dailyencouragement #dailyverses #verseoftheday #dailydevotional #godlovesyou #godislove #givethanks https://www.instagram.com/p/ClJ7p9KSVHY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#christian #dailyencouragement #dailyverses #verseoftheday #dailydevotional #godlovesyou #godislove #givethanks

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