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Morning Devotion: Grabbing faith

God asks us to do things at times that are frightening to us because of our presumption that bad things might happen.
Many Christians are afraid to tithe, thinking that God won’t keep His promise to more than make up for the larger gifts to ministry.
Many Christians are afraid to forgive, thinking that if the person […]

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Morning Devotion: The limits of God

We rarely say it, but our thoughts and actions sometimes show it.
I’m talking about the belief that God cannot or will not do what His Word promises.
To claim faith in Christ but not faith in the Bible is folly. For Jesus had a 100 percent confidence in scripture.
Shouldn’t we?
“Oh, but I do trust scripture […]

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Morning Devotion: We’ve all done it

Wouldn’t it be nice if we never doubted God?
Particularly when the Bible and godly people were advising us in a certain way yet we decided that we knew better?
Ah… human pride.
It’s such a stumbling block sometimes.
We always err when we attempt to place our comprehensional boundaries around the plans and power of God.
The poster child […]

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Morning Devotion: The cycle of faith

It would be great if our journey of faith could be graphed with a straight line heading ever upward.
But it can’t.
We’ve failed during our time in the Lord and that graph line looks more like a bouncing stock chart and nothing like a heaven-bound centerline.
I was reminded of my life’s pattern of non-linear faith while […]

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Morning Devotion: Three-way faith

Three is an important number to God, based on what we read in the Bible.
— The Father, Son and Holy Spirit
— Noah had three sons to help him build the ark
— Three angelic messengers (Were they Christ, Gabriel, Michael?) who announced to Abraham the coming birth of Isaac
— Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
— Three kings of […]

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