Monday, November 25, 2024

Clay Jars

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Treasure in Fragile Clay Jars

2 Corinthians 4:1-18 NLT
[1] Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.
[2] We reject all shameful deeds and underhanded methods. We don’t try to trick anyone or distort the word of God. We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know this.
[3] If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing.
[4] Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
[5] You see, we don’t go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus’ sake.
[6] For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
[7] We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.
[8] We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.
[9] We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.
[10] Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.
[11] Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus, so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies.
[12] So we live in the face of death, but this has resulted in eternal life for you.
[13] But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.”
[14] We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you.
[15] All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.
[16] That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
[17] For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!
[18] So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

1 Peter 2:9 NKJV
You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Not Tricked

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♥︎Not Influenced, Not Tricked with Lies

Ephesians 4:10-16 NLT
¹⁰ And the same one who descended is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that he might fill the entire universe with himself.
¹¹ Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers.
¹² Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.
¹³ This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
¹⁴ Then we will no longer be immature like children. ♥︎We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. ♥︎We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.
¹⁵ Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.
¹⁶ He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.


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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Trust Jesus & Joy will Spring

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Trust Jesus & Joy will Spring

Romans 15:13 NLT
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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©Coffman, James Burton. "Commentary on Romans 15:13".
"Such a glorious peace and joy are available from no other source than the life of faith in Jesus Christ. These priceless endowments of the soul are the Christian's badge of eternal inheritance, his true credentials of heavenly citizenship, and his impregnable defense against all the tribulations and temptations of life. Having peace with God and the joy of the Spirit in his soul, the Christian is redeemed indeed."
Source: https://www.studylight.org/commentary/romans/15-13.html


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Isaiah 12:3
With joy you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation!

John 4:10, 14
¹⁰ Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”
¹⁴ But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”


John 7:37-38
³⁷ On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!
³⁸ Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”


Psalms 36:8-9
⁸ You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights.
⁹ For you are the fountain of life,
the light by which we see.

Isaiah 44:3-4
³ For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields.
And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children.
They will thrive like watered grass, like willows on a riverbank.


Joel 2:23
Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem!
    Rejoice in the Lord your God!
For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness.
    Once more the autumn rains will come,
    as well as the rains of spring.


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Monday, November 11, 2024

Moving Shadows

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Moving Shadows
Psalms 39:6-7 NLT
We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it.
And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in you.

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Psalms 49:10 NLT
Those who are wise must finally die, just like the foolish and senseless, leaving all their wealth behind.

Ecclesiastes 2:18-19 NLT
¹⁸ I came to hate all my hard work here on earth, for I must leave to others everything I have earned.
¹⁹ And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!

Luke 12:20 NLT
“But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’

1 Corinthians 7:31 NLT
Those who use the things of the world should not become attached to them. For this world as we know it will soon pass away.

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Saturday, November 2, 2024

God of Compassion

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God our Abba Father
God of Compassion

Psalms 103:13-16 NLT
¹³ The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
¹⁴ For he knows how weak we are; he remembers we are only dust.
¹⁵ Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
¹⁶ The wind blows, and we are goneas though we had never been here.

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Malachi 3:17 NLT
“They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child.

Isaiah 40:6-8 NLT
A voice said, “Shout!” I asked, “What should I shout?” “Shout that people are like the grass. Their beauty fades as quickly as the flowers in a field.
The grass withers and the flowers fade beneath the breath of the Lord. And so it is with people.
The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever.

James 1:9-11 NLT
Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them.
¹⁰ And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field.
¹¹ The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.

1 Peter 1:24 NLT
As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades.

Job 7:9-10 NLT
Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back.
¹⁰ They are gone forever from their home— never to be seen again.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

A Blessing

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🕊A Blessing🕊

May God watch over you and His lamp
shine upon your head and may you,
by His light walk through darkness.
May the friendly counsel of God
be over your dwelling place.
May the Almighty be with you.
May your steps be bathed with cream and
the rock pour out rivers of oil for you!
In the blessed name of our Lord Jesus, Amen.


(Inspired from Job 29:2-6)

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Job 29:2-6 NKJV
² “Oh, that I were as in months past, As in the days when God watched over me;
³ When His lamp shone upon my head, And  when by His light I walked through darkness;
Just as I was in the days of my prime, When the friendly counsel of God was over my tent;
When the Almighty was yet with me, When my children were around me;
When my steps were bathed with cream, And the rock poured out rivers of oil for me!

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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Love Never Gives Up

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Love Never Gives Up
Love Bears All Things

1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT
⁷Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

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Romans 15:1
We who are strong must be considerate of those who are sensitive about things like this. We must not just please ourselves.

Galatians 6:2
Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.

2 Timothy 2:24
A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people.

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