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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-250 He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is kind to the needy. (Proverbs 14:21) Our God is a just God. He is righteous. Therefore whether a person is a believer or not, he maintains his righteousness within the bounds of his Word. The above...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-249 The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.'" (1...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-248 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? (Numbers 23:19) Balaam, the false prophet was recruited by Balak, the Moabite king to curse Israel. But try...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-247 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it. (Numbers 14:24) Of the 12 leaders who went to explore the promised land only Caleb son of...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-246 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will - to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-245 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. (Psalm 37:5, 6) 2 things: commit your way and then trust in him. Whatever the problem, first lay...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-244 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6) The Bible is replete with examples of how God rewards them who have displayed their...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-243 If this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment. (2 Peter 2:9) While speaking of God rescuing godly men from trials, the Apostle Peter mentions a couple...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-242 Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-241 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. (Matthew 6:6) Doesn't seem too complex a strategy to receive rewards from the heavenly Father...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-240 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-239 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises- 238 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, "The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: 'Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead the way to Mount Tabor. I will lure Sisera, the commander of Jabin's...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises- 237 The LORD answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together." (Judges 6:16) The Lord's call for service often comes in the most unexpected of places. Gideon was not exactly in a "fasting & praying" session when the Lord called...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises- 236 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed. (Isaiah 28:16) If you have trusted in the tested and precious cornerstone Jesus, you...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises- 235 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (John 16:7) Jesus spoke about the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, defining his role in the lives of...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises- 234 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all ; no one can snatch them out of my Father's...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises- 233 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him. (Psalms 109:31) God is near to all who call upon him; all who call upon him in truth. In Psalm 109, David speaks about his enemies who wanted to destroy him with...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises- 232 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."(John 8:12) Do you have the light of life? If you are following the light of the world ‘Jesus’, you...
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    Simple Thoughts On Promises

    Simple Thoughts On Promises-231 I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her." (Matthew 26:13) While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster...
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