God’s great gift to us is to not leave us in our sin but to give us the opportunity to repent and turn back to Him.
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The Holy Spirit gives Life
The Holy Spirit and the Words of Jesus gives us life. They are a reason to be thankful and hopeful. No one is beyond God’s reach.
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The Source of our Blessings
Genesis 41:41-57 shows that dealing with success can be just as great a problem as dealing with trials and difficulties. The culture we live in seeks to pressure us to compromise. We need to remember that God is the source of all our blessings.
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Being Drawn in by God
Dear Friends, John 6:41-60 is about the unbelief of the Jews. Last week, the crowds sought Jesus for the wrong reasons – for physical food and to make Him a political leader – but the reason the Jewish leaders reject Jesus is different. They understand His claims that He has come from God and they […]
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Give Glory to God
Dear Friends, In Genesis 41:1-40, we see that, after a long wait of 11 years, the dreams from Genesis 37 stating that Joseph would be a leader and have prominence are beginning to come to fruition. It is a reminder of the need to be patient in regard to God’s timing. One of the highlights […]
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The Bread of Life
In John 6:25-40, Jesus explains the need to work for bread that endures to eternal life. He is the source of this bread of life.
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Live by Faith, Not by Sight
It is during difficult and dark and discouraging times that we must learn to cling to God’s Word and to live by faith, not by sight. In Genesis 40:1-23, we see Joseph learning this lesson while in prison.
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Walking on Water
Dear Friends, In John 6:16-24, Jesus intentionally withdraws from the crowd who have misunderstood who He is and why He has come. This is one of His great tasks: to lift people’s Biblical understanding so they know the God of the Bible and why He (Jesus) came. In this passage, Jesus has sent the disciples […]
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Run From Sin
Dear Friends, Today in Genesis 39:1-23,we learn that God is with Joseph (see v. 2, 3, 21, 23). But God being with Joseph can mean favour as well as opposition and persecution. One of the hardest things in the Christian life is to understand that the trials and difficulties which we experience are also God’s […]
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Look to Jesus
Dear Friends, In John 6:1-15, we encounter another sign of Jesus – the feeding of the 5000 – which is loaded with meaning. One of the interesting aspects of God’s Word is that we are given not only the event which happened but also the clues for how to understand the meaning of the event. […]
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