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Need Hope?

Hope. What do you need hope for right now? I imagine we can each easily call something to mind for which we need hope. Or, we can anticipate the times that will come when finding hope will be a challenge.   As I continue from Psalm 23 in Need Peace, this last part has given me …

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Need Peace?

One thing I wish was a constant in life is peace. On a superficial level, I just wish it wasn’t so busy during this season (and every season) of the year. I have to fight for moments of stillness and reflection. That sounds peaceful, right? Fight for peace! On a deeper level I think we …

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30.30.30. Day 30: Our Worship

30.30.30 Day 30 The Passage: Revelation 4:1-11After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.” 2 Immediately I …

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30.30.30. Day 29: Our Thankfulness

30.30.30. Day 29 The Passage: Isaiah 12Then you will say on that day,“I will give thanks to You, O Lord;For although You were angry with me,Your anger is turned away,And You comfort me.2 “Behold, God is my salvation,I will trust and not be afraid;For the Lord God is my strength and song,And He has become …

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30.30.30. Day 28: Our Perspective

30.30.30. Day 28 The Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:1016 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at …

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30.30.30. Day 27: Our Stewardship

30.30.30. Day 27 The Passage: Luke 19:11-2711 While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. 12 So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for …

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30.30.30. Day 25: Our Mission

30.30.30. Day 25 The Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:14-2114 For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; 15 and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. 16 …

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30.30.30. Day 24: Our Future

30.30.30. Day 24 The Passage: 1 Peter 1:3-93 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled …

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30.30.30. Day 23: Our Example

30.30.30. Day 23 The Passage: 1 Peter 2:21-2521 For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, 22 who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 23 and while being reviled, He did not revile …

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30.30.30. Day 22: Our Power and Help

30.30.30. Day 22 The Passage: John 14:16-3116 I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with …

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30.30.30. Day 21: Our Good Shepherd

30.30.30. Day 21 The Passage: Psalm 231  The Lord is my shepherd,I shall not want.2 He makes me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters.3 He restores my soul;He guides me in the paths of righteousnessFor His name’s sake.4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,I fear …

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30.30.30. Day 19: So Love

30.30.30. Day 19 The Passage: 1 John 4:7-217 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in …

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30.30.30. Day 18: Walk this Way

30.30.30. Day 18 The Passage: Galatians 5:16-2616 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do …

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