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Building A Lasting Marriage
A mutual commitment to the marriage covenant surpasses one’s desire for personal happiness.
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When Good Marriages Go Bad
Why Good Marriages Go Bad I have witnessed many marriages I believed to be good, go bad—filled with rancor, immorality, divorce, and the like. What a far cry from the wedding day, when the bride and groom believed there were no difficulties they could not conquer with love — and they fully expected to live happily ever after! In my observation, several root causes surface after marriage, some of which could have been anticipated before the “I do’s” were said. Love—or what passes for love—often blinds us to the realities of who a potential spouse really is. So what are … Read More >
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A Prayer to Meditate in the Scriptures
“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall mediate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”—Joshua 1:8 Most of us wish that God would work on us while we’re asleep so that we could wake to face the day with unwavering confidence and faith! We wish that good intentions, combined with attending church once a week, would bring about permanent changes in … Read More >
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Quiet Hour - Day 8
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 8 Take good heed therefore unto your souls. —Joshua 23:11 (Margin) Gold cannot be used for currency as long as it is mixed with the quartz and rock in which it lies imbedded. So your soul is useless to God till taken out from sin and earthliness and selfishness, in which it lies buried. By the regenerating power of the Spirit you must be separated unto Christ, stamped with His image and superscription, and made into a divine currency, which shall bear His likeness among men. The Christian is, so to speak … Read More >
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Quiet Hour - Day 43
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 12 What means these stones? —Joshua 4:21 Ye also as living stones. —1 Peter 2:5 There should be something so remarkable, so peculiar about the life and conversation of a Christian that men should be compelled to ask, “What does this mean?”…Is there anything in your character, words, and habits of life so different from the world around you that men are involuntarily compelled to ask themselves or others, “What does this mean?” Not that there is to be a forced singularity, a peculiarity for the sake of being peculiar … Read More >
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Finding God In A Tight Place
If you don’t submit to God during hardships, that trial might be wasted. Not everyone passes a trial successfully.
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The Puzzle of the Will of God
When you begin to do the will of God in matters that have been revealed, God will begin to lead you in matters that are unrevealed.
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Are There Generational Sins And Curses?
God’s holiness is unmatched. He responds to sin not only with grace, but also with holy judgment. When we observe the nature of sin and punishment in the Old Testament, the prophets record that God treats sin harshly. Sin affects more than merely the perpetrator, it spills over into the community, especially the family. Thus, God speaks of visiting and punishing sins to the third and fourth generation (Exodus 20:5, Numbers 14:18, Lamentations 5:7). Achan and his family’s punishment is one extraordinary example of God’s tenacity for purity, but it should not be considered as a normal … Read More >
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A Prayer to Put Away Sinful Practices
“Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”—Joshua 24:14, 15 If we think of idolatry as referring only to worshipping … Read More >
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What Do These Stones Mean?
God is not out of miracles. God is not out of men. God continues history from one generation to another.
