Loaves, fish, and souls

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nfhhc-156e896 This Christian life is about surrender, which will require that we give everything to God.  This expectation of generosity and willingness to let go should not make us nervous or bring thoughts of scarcity and need.  God’s abundance is revealed when we abundantly surrender all to him.

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S206P4 – How soon we forget: when we saw God’s goodness

Job 2:6-9 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. And he took for himself a potsherd with which…

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S206P3 – How soon we forget: an opportunity missed

Mk. 6:35-38 When the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place and already the hour is late. Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.” But He answered and said…

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S206P2 – How soon we forget: the delayed response

Exo. 32:1 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know…

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Gracious prophecy fulfilled

One of the clearest and most compelling statements made by Jesus was that He did not come to abolish the law and the prophets but to fulfill them. [Mt. 5:17-20]  This statement should have perked the listeners’ ears and made them look for how He could fulfill prophecy.  We know now that Jesus fulfilled hundreds…

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S206P1 – How soon we forget: not trying to remember

Psa. 78:9-18 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They did not keep the covenant of God; they refused to walk in His law, and forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them. Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers,…

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S205P13 – The posture of prayer: a pleasing aroma

Rev. 5:8 Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. I do not have children of my own, but I have many nieces and nephews by…

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S205P12 – The posture of prayer: a clear purpose

Isa. 56:6-7 Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants — everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant — even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them…

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S205P11 – The posture of prayer: patiently waiting

Psa. 69:12-14 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I am the song of the drunkards. But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, in the acceptable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy, hear me in the truth of Your salvation. Deliver me out of the…

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A calling unto death

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ut932-156370d Esther, Mordecai, and the Jews of their time certainly had their flaws.  Yet, God used them in a mighty way, and we are still talking about it today.  For them, the question was simple.  Would they be willing to face death individually and corporately in order to save their people from annihilation?  History shows…

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