Author Archives: mike

Be Wise

And these are they by the way side, where the Word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan comes immediately and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts. (Mark 4:14)

Satan is not stupid, he knows what to do in order to keep the Word from penetrating our hearts, but God doesn’t leave
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Wholeheartedly

You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13)

Part of God’s personality is that He is jealous for us. This jealousy is part of His great love for us. This jealousy is not like human jealousy that is attached to hate and murder. His jealousy wants the best for us.
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Repentance

My sacrifice O God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart You will not despise. (Psalm 51:17)

One of the greatest sacrifices we can bring to God is the mess of our life. When we lay all that we are, all that we want to be, every dream and desire on the altar of God
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Great Reward

I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. (Acts 24:15)

When we consider what is ahead of us, it makes the here and now all the worth while. “But for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross.”
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This Side Of The Rainbow

And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. (Job 42:10)

There is a secret here. God did not restore to Job what he had lost and then some because he deserved it. God restored to Job because in time of
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Overflow Of Blessings

Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you. (Acts27:24)

Ever go on an airplane and know that everyone on that plane is blessed because you are there? Ever walk into a place with many people and sense
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Come As Children

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 19:14)

A simple, child like attitude toward God is so
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Share Jesus

Let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. (James 5:20)

Our life is to be an example of God’s power to restore and save that which is lost. We are to be an example to the world
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A Muscular Spirit

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. (1 Timothy 4:8)

 

When you’re spirit is right with God, then your mind, will and emotions can be dealt with and healed. When that takes place, your body
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Love Is The Fulfillment Of The Law

For the commandments,”You shall not commit adultery, “You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet, and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. “Love does no harm to a neighbor, therefore love
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Such Were Some Of You

Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God. And such were some of you, but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord
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Boldness By God

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13

O what joy to know that the only qualification needed to be a testimony for God is a touch by Jesus.
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Made Innocent

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. (Acts 20:26)

It was Paul,(who was previously named Saul) who said these words who Jesus met and transformed. He was on his way to murder the saints of God when the intervention came. He was guilty of much innocent
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His Chastening

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. For He bruises but He binds up, He wounds, but His hands make whole. For I the Lord have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of
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My Peace I Give You

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give you. (John 14:27)

The greatest battle in this lifetime that we need to win is the battle of the mind. This is a battle that will be raging until we go to heaven with Jesus. The mind is where the enemy first launches his attack. If he can conquer the
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