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Choose This Day

And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods.
Joshua 24:16

Towards the end of Joshua’s life on earth, he presented Israel with an ultimatum: serve Jehovah or serve the gods of those whom they conquered. Joshua vowed to serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15). This crossroad in the journey to inheriting the Promised Land is one many encounter in their walk with God. In the New Testament, Jesus

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A Loving Walk

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments.
2 John 1:6a

Love is not solely about telling others how much you love them. It is not about showing acts of kindness with the expectation of having it reciprocated. Love is the first and greatest commandment of God, and it ultimately boils down to OBEDIENCE.

If we look to King Saul in the Old Testament, we find him giving lip service regarding his love for God to

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The Healing of Hospitality

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
1 Peter 4:9

To show hospitality is to warmly receive strangers into your midst and treat them kindly. We are commanded by the Gospel to love others as God loves us. The Authorized Version of the Bible uses the word charity for love throughout much of the New Testament.

We are reminded here, also, to not be complainers nor murmur when showing hospitality. It must come from a repentant and regenerated

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Touch and Agree

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 18:19

The first word in our Scripture is “again”. This indicates that the Lord has addressed this matter before. Early in Matthew’s account of the Gospel, we find Christ admonishing us to A.S.K. (Ask, Seek, Knock) and we shall receive innumerable

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The Happiness of the Law

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 29:18

God presents His goals and objectives often through visions. We cannot forget that man messed up when entrusted with the vision back at Eden. Since that point, man has been more concerned about their own fulfillment then glorifying God.

With Moses, God established His law, but what is its essence? (Exodus 20:1-17, Deuteronomy 5:6-21) In this particular case, we

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Where Our Values Should Lay

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Malachi 3:8

We can often have the best intentions and yet find ourselves not completely surrendering to the will of God. Keeping our Scripture in context, we see that the tithe is referring to wealth this is typically agricultural in nature. If we look at what it means to us today, it is talking about

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Fundamentals of Fellowship

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews 10:25

You will not find anywhere in the Bible the words, “you must go to church.” However, the church is NOT the building, but it’s the BODY of God’s believers! A body, like many other things, has different components put TOGETHER! When believers fellowship, they come TOGETHER! (Ephesians

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The Limitless God

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think…
Ephesians 3:20

Because our minds and imaginations are limited and finite, it can be difficult to understand, let alone accept the “omni”–all-possessing–attributes of God. The Scriptures say that the thoughts of God are HIGHER than our thoughts; His ways are HIGHER than our ways (Isaish 55:8-9).

He has promised us that He would supply ALL of our NEEDS (Philippians 4:19)! Today’s

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Jesus & You, Perfect Together

And his name through faith in his name hath made his man strong…the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Acts 3:16

This verse is addressing the faith of a lame man who was unable to walk for all of his life. He was laid outside the temple daily and collected money from those entering to go pray. The Bible says that faith comes by HEARING (by

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The Power of the Tongue

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Proverbs 18:21

The Scriptures describe the tongue as an unruly evil and also a source from which blessings and curses flow. We must understand, however, that the concept of words not really being harmful is simply not true. Words are planted in one’s heart as seeds are planted in the soil.

The impact of the words may not

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