Editations for everyday
November 12 John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. The great thing about this prayer of Jesus to God the Father is how true this is for me. I have now told this personal story many times. Yet it bears […]
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November 11 Isaiah 61:10 I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels I am
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November 10 Mathew 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins.” The name Jesus is the Greek version of the Hebrew Joshua. It means God is Savior/healer. Many people do not know the meaning of their name.
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November 9 1John 2:2 He (Jesus) is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. When things go wrong in or around our lives we may soon think or say aloud, “Somebody has to pay for this!” In the early years
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November 8 Acts 2:21 Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. As I write it has been several months since Oliver Anthony burst upon the world stage with his song Rich Men North of Richmond. Beyond that song which touched the hearts of millions of people was his
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November 7 Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. There was a recent Facebook post that said the question about the glass of water has missed the obvious. Here is some real outside the box thinking. Is the glass of water half empty or half full? It suggested both
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November 6. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what
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November 5 Isaiah 25:9 Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.” Years ago my wife and I were traveling from Rochester NY to Greenfield NH to visit my good friends there.
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November 4 Psalm 31:24 Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. My mother, who lived to the ripe old age of 93 used to say, “Getting old is not for the faint of heart.” At 74 I know what she meant. Jerome, a good friend of mine once said, “You
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November 1 Timothy 4:10 That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe. In context Paul is talking about his own efforts to share the Gospel with great effort and zeal. His hope
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