Devotional tags: Week 4 // Friday

The Benefits of Obedience

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, tie them as a reminder on your hands, and let them be symbols on your forehead. Deuteronomy 11:18 Into the Text The nation had wandered in the desert for forty years as a result of their disobedience and lack of

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The One Worthy of Praise

Every day I will praise you. I will praise your name continually. The Lᴏʀᴅ is great and certainly worthy of praise. No one can fathom his greatness. Psalm 145:2–3 Into the Text We’ve learned much about the practice of lament over the last four weeks. We’ve seen how God wants

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Conquering Power

Because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith. Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 1 John 5:4–5   Into

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Our Bodies are a Temple

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. 1 Corinthians 6:19–20   Into the Text

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The Song of the Shepherds

“As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow —in heaven and on earth and under the earth— and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of

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Salvation: Repentance

“Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,” Acts 3:19 “The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” 2

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The Mosaic Law

“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits. Keep your distance from a false charge–do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.”  Exodus 23:6–7   Into the Text Exodus 21–24 are some of the chapters that list out

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Fighting Forgetfulness

Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love? Micah 7:18   Into the Text We are forgetful people. We can walk into a room and forget

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The Value of a Humble Heart

“For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.” Romans 12:3   Into the Text

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If You Love Me, Keep My Commands

Jesus replied, ‘If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but

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