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Ready for suffering?

Read Psalms 44. Read the whole thing… think. The high­light in it: 11 You have made us like sheep for slaugh­ter and have scat­tered us among the nations. 12 You have sold your peo­ple for a tri­fle, demand­ing no high price for them. 13 You have made us the taunt of our neigh­bors, the deri­sion and scorn of those around us. 14 You have [...]
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Journal Notes: 11/20/07 — 11/24/07

Proverbs 20:9 — “Who can say, “I have cleansed my heart I am pure from my sin.”? Not I!! But I can say, “Jesus cleansed my heart!” Proverbs 21:17 — “He who loves plea­sure will become a poor man” (def. spir­i­tu­ally poor) — 2 Tim­o­thy 3:4 — “… (in the end days there will be) lovers of [...]
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How lovely

When once I did not know Him, I cried and con­fessed myself to be lonely. Now when I am tired, I cry on His shoul­der, con­fess­ing my need for Him: more and more and more of Him. Come Lord Jesus The Israelites cry out. God tells them: Don’t you even remem­ber? Don’t you remem­ber what I did in the begin­ning? How [...]
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God does love us

There is this song on the radio, and it repeats over and over again “He loves me just the way I am” — It is quite annoying. “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sin­ners, Christ died for us.” Amen! But He isn’t sat­is­fied with us as we are. He hates [...]
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What’s new under the sun?

When­ever I get com­fort­able, He always reminds me of the following: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the king­dom of God. “Blessed are you who are hun­gry now, for you shall be sat­is­fied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. “Blessed are you when peo­ple hate you and when they exclude you and [...]
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Heavy

Lately God’s been bring­ing every­thing just “together” for me. After almost 6 months of sim­ply lov­ing and liv­ing with Jesus, the desires of my heart are see­ing fulfillment. I read this verse (Psalms 20:4) last night: May he grant you your heart’s desire and ful­fill all your plans! The desires of my heart bet­ter not get in the way of the [...]
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See what is in man

“But Jesus on his part did not entrust him­self to them, because he knew all peo­ple and needed no one to bear wit­ness about man, for he him­self knew what was in man.“1 God’s been allow­ing some painful “know­ing” to pass my way. I think it has to do with being a ‘man’ now… where once [...]
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Unworthy of consolation

I am prais­ing God today! Jesus says (in Luke 17:7–10): “Will any one of you who has a ser­vant plow­ing or keep­ing sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? Will he not rather say to him, ‘Pre­pare sup­per for me, and dress prop­erly, and serve me [...]
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My Father’s (singular & unified) will.

Some teach that my Father has both a moral and a sov­er­eign will. Mean­ing, “he sen­ti­men­tally doesn’t want any to per­ish, but he only actively works to save a few.” Low and behold, a pas­sage came across me that (once again) had me ask­ing “why haven’t I seen that before?” See that you do not despise one [...]
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Your Spiritual House

We are all famil­iar with the para­ble of Jesus: “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Every­one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man build­ing a house, who dug deep and laid the [...]
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