Tag: testimony
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What You Tell Your Children – Exodus 10:1-2
Exodus 10:1-2 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in…
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The Price Behind the Politeness – Genesis 23:12-15
Genesis 23:12-15 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my…
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Only What Is Real Can Wait – Genesis 21:24
Genesis 21:24And Abraham said, I will swear. I love how simple that is. Abraham does not argue. He does not defend himself. He does not try to clean up the past or explain why Abimelech should trust him now. He just says, “I will swear.” There is a quiet humility in that response that says…
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God Is With You Even in Ordinary Things – Genesis 21:22-23
Genesis 21:22, 23And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with…
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Impressed by God – Genesis 20:14-15
Genesis 20:14, 15And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. Abimelech does not respond this way because Abraham had been so noble, steady, or admirable. Abraham had not…
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Open Hands, Open Heart – Revelation 1:2
Revelation 1:2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. John was entrusted with Revelation because he was the kind of man who did not keep truth locked up inside himself. He bore record of the Word of God, of the…
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A Pattern of Patience — 1 Timothy 1:16
1 Timothy 1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Paul says something here that almost feels surprising. He does not say he was saved only for his own sake.…