Tag: trusting God
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The Sword That Reveals the Heart — Hebrews 4:12
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Most of us grew up hearing this verse explained one…
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Don’t Harden Your Heart — Hebrews 3:7–11
Hebrews 3:7–11 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway…
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When the Lord Stands With You — 2 Timothy 4:17
2 Timothy 4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. Paul had just said that when he first stood to give his defense, no one stood…
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The Lord Will Deal with It — 2 Timothy 4:14
2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works. Paul does not hide the truth about what happened. He says it plainly. Alexander the coppersmith did him much harm. That is refreshingly honest. Sometimes spiritual people feel pressure to pretend that nothing ever hurts them. But…