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Exodus 20:6 Love the Word

Exodus 20:6 But showing favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.   Love Me and Keep My Commandments are written in God’s word about five times, so it must be pretty important. It is impossible to obey the commandments, especially if we don’t love God. But for most people, even myself, we love ourselves more and do what we want to do, and don’t do God’s will. God’s love…

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Exodus 20:1-2 Deliverance To Freedom, For He Is Our God

Exodus 20:1-2 1 Then God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. The Lord God had to reintroduce Himself to the people of Israel, who had spent about 400 years in Egypt. Four hundred odd years earlier, the Israelites lived in Israel, but a great famine made them move to Egypt. Because Jacob’s son Joseph was…

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Revelation 20:5-6 Wages of Life/Death Mark

Revelation 20:5-6 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years. I had an uncle named Bill Bailes, a good man, a good…

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Romans 1:24 Knowing

Romans 1:24  Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. Why does the Holy Bible call some behaviors abominations, improper, or, as Romans 1:24 says, vile impurity? Is it for moral reasons, or are these behaviors not meant for humans to do or take part in? Romans 1:24 talks about ungodly people giving themselves…

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John 3:20-21 Now Open

John 3:20-21 20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. 21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God.” Between 1992 and 1993, I worked as a floater for the Handy Pantry convenience store. As a floater, I did not just work at one store; I…

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Proverbs 13:6 Blessed

Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless, but wickedness brings the sinner to ruin. One of the Beatitudes teaches that the blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Jesus chased Satan away by quoting the scripture, “Man cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from God,” To be righteous, a person must be…

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Proverbs 13:5 Social Lies

Proverbs 13:5 The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. My father used to tell me that a lair is worse than a thief and that nothing good comes from lying. Once you tell a lie, you have to tell more to back up the lie you already told. That is why the wicked bring shame and disgrace to themselves. I see and hear falsehoods almost daily, as I witness on social…

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Luke 1:41-45 Praise Matters

Luke 1:41-45 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 And she cried out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me? 44 For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the…

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John 3:16 So Loved

John 3:16  “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. Years ago, when I was studying the gospel of Genesis, I had a bit of an epiphany. I had realized everything was done for love; for God was so loving He filled the emptiness of space by creating life. Each time He created life He told it to love, be…

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Proverbs 13:4 Samuel’s Field

Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the lazy one craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is made prosperous. I haven’t officially worked a paying job since 2009. My last job was as a residential care at a troubled teen boy’s group home and school in Calhoun, Tennessee. I applied for jobs between 2009 and 2012 but never got hired. Finally, my mother told me to apply for social security…

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Deuteronomy 11:18 Wonderful Mark

Deuteronomy 11:18 “You shall therefore take these words of mine to heart and soul, and you shall tie them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets on your forehead. When I read this passage from the Book of Deuteronomy, I can’t help but think of Billy Bailey from the film It’s a Wonderful Life. Billy Baily is George Baily’s uncle, the movie’s main character. Billy owns a building…

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John 3:14-15 Strangely Dim Vipers

John 3:14-15 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes will have eternal life in Him. The holy scriptures tell me to cast all my burdens on the Lord because He will sustain me. But that promise often feels like vapor in the wind, and I am anxious, but I believe God’s word. It is because I cast my concerns…

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Romans 1 18-19 To Protect and Serve

Romans 1: 18-19 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.    The word wrath appears in God’s word about 178 times, at least in the New American Standard translation I read, in the famous King…

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Proverbs 13:3 #@*%

Proverbs 13:3 One who guards his mouth protects his life; One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. Many times, in my life from my youth to currently, my mouth and my words will get me in trouble. Most times, I really do not mean what I am saying, I am just fast to speak my discontent. My father would punish me in an odd way. He would make me look in a mirror then I would have to say to…

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Proverbs 13:2 Hail the Good Race!

Proverbs 13:2 From the fruit of a person’s mouth, he enjoys good, But the desire of the treacherous is violence.   In 1931 Berlin, Germany, was selected to host the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. It was chosen because it had recovered from the First World War, which it had helped start and would soon began the second world war. Little did the International Olympic Committee know that two years…

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  Proverbs 13:1 My Son! My Son?

Proverbs 13:1  A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. The book of Proverbs is words of wisdom from Solomon as a father to his son. The Holy Bible is God the Father’s word for His created children. In Biblical times, the word of God was passed down from the father with the mother’s help to their children. Seldomly Biblical parents like Adam and Eve,…

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John 3:13 When I Rise?

John 3:13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. My uncle, Larry Collins, was a preacher; whenever there was a death in the family, he would offer himself and his church for the funeral service. Also, his church offered a burial lot in its graveyard to bury the body of a family member. At the beginning of most services, after the…