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Have you ever wished you could grow faster in the Lord and have more wisdom, grace, and power to overcome your challenges?I wish I had some fancy shortcut to share with you, but I don’t. Do you remember the race between the tortoise and the hare? The tortoise wasn’t the fastest thing on four legs, …
In Israel God held kings to a higher standard than everyone else. In order for them to rule justly in the fear of the Lord, God commanded the king to do something quite unusual by today’s standards. His assignment was hand copying Scripture and reading from it every day! “Also it shall be, when he sits …
The Lord required the kings of Israel to perform an unusual task—to handwrite their own copy of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible). Why? He knew there were huge, rarely-discovered benefits to be gained in the personal handwriting of Scripture. Let’s look at them in turn.1. HumblingIt was humbling. It required learning …
Recent mass shootings and terrorist attacks on our American homeland (as well as others risks) have escalated our need to pray daily for safety. Here are 15 powerful spiritual warfare prayers that set up a perimeter of divine protection around you and your family. God has a part to play in your protection, but so …
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. —Galatians 5:22–23 The fruit of the Spirit is a product of the Holy Spirit living within your spirit. He desires to reproduce in you the character of God, conforming you to the image of …
Galatians 5:22–23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Our last lesson was about the fruit of the Spirit in general. Today we talk specifically about the fruit of love. The Bible says that God is love (1 John 4:8, 16), …