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"Cherished" The works of men are evil, even from their youth... Thus the little children shall be My inheritance, and the babes My jewels... For the innocent come forth as lights shining Out of darkness, gifts born from the womb; They are precious; to be cherished Is every child in their youth... For the innocent are of more value Than gold and silver, prized Above precious stones... Says The Lord. ▶ Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/Jtly5g9YC3M?si=fCfBfxoQlSgdTbAD 📖 Source: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Words_To_Live_By:_Part_Two Words To Live By (Part Two): More Words of Wisdom From The Lord, Our God and Savior - The Volumes of Truth https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com #WordsToLiveBy #TheVolumesofTruth #Prophecy #TrueProphet #ScriptureReading #WordofGod #YAHUWAH #YahuShua #JesusChrist #Wisdom #Psalms #Proverbs #Messiah #church #Lake #Scenery #calm #relaxing #abortion #prolife #prochoice #chooselife #babies #womb #pregnancy #cherished #infant

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NEW Video! The Volumes of Truth - WORDS TO LIVE BY: Cherished (Unofficial Video)

"Cherished"

The works of men are evil, even from their youth…

Thus the little children shall be My inheritance, and the babes My jewels…

For the innocent come forth as lights shining Out of darkness, gifts born from the womb; They are precious; to be cherished Is every child in their youth…

For the innocent are of more value Than gold and silver, prized Above precious stones…

Says The Lord.

Source: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Words_To_Live_By:_Part_Two

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Be still In His Presence | Meditating On God's Word | Dr. Rinde Gbenro

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Powerful Moment: Jesus Reading Scripture in the Synagogue

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Universalis

Sunday 14 April 2024

3rd Sunday of Easter

(Using calendar: Philippines. You can change this.)

#MorningPrayer(Lauds)

#ScriptureReading

Acts 10:40-43 ©

God raised Jesus to life on the third day and allowed him to be seen, not by the whole people but only by certain witnesses God had chosen beforehand.

Now we are those witnesses – we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead – and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his people and to tell them that God has appointed him to judge everyone, alive or dead.

It is to him that all the prophets bear this witness: that all who believe in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name.

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Threads of Faith | Galatians 3:17-18

This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise. — Galatians 3:17-18

CALL OUT: Shout out to Chase Shrum from Houston, TX, who graciously encourages men to check out our resources and daily devotionals. I cannot thank you enough.

I know sometimes texts like this one, read exclusively, can feel very cryptic; however, the meaning is simple. Paul is stating a chronological fact. The promise God made to Abraham was not changed by God at the advent of the Mosaic Law, which occurred 430 years later. Or, to emphasize the issue at hand, the faith of Abraham's covenant and blessing was not ratified 430 years later by works of the Law. Faith was and still is the means of the Abrahamic blessing.

This draws attention to a danger we constantly face as believers—losing touch with the truth of Scripture.

Every believer needs to read the Scripture for themselves. You need to pick up your Bible and read it. You need to mature beyond consuming the regurgitated text of a popular pastor who preaches a proof text. You need to read more than the New Testament. You need to read both Testaments. The whole Bible tells a whole story. One congruent story that God has been telling since the beginning of time. In the thread Paul references right here, we see one covenant, one blessing, one promise, one Son, and one sacrifice for all people provided by faith. The only way to see God's divine design is to read the thread for yourself. When you read it, you will see it. The carefully woven, intricately connected, divine design of our Sovereign God in whom we have faith. Reading the whole of the Bible will strengthen your faith and maybe even correct the corrupt beliefs you have about him.

#FaithfulPromises #BiblicalTruth #GodsCovenant #ScriptureReading #StrengthenYourFaith

ASK THIS:

How does reading the entire Bible, both Old and New Testaments, enhance one's understanding of God's unchanging promises and faithfulness throughout history? In what ways can we ensure that we're not just relying on secondhand interpretations of Scripture but actively engaging with the text ourselves to deepen our faith and correct any misconceptions we may have about God?

DO THIS: Set a goal of reading the entire Bible.

PRAY THIS: Father, thank you for your unchanging promises that are revealed throughout Scripture. Help me to dive deeper into your Word, to read it with understanding, and to trust in your faithfulness in every season of my life. Amen.

PLAY THIS: Faithful.

Check out this episode!

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Enoch 46 All Honor, Glory and Praise to the Most High! #scripturereading #narrowpath #mishpocha #yahuahisking #Enoch

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First full week of May 2019 with @BelovedSociety. #BelovedSociety #illustratedfaithdaily2019 #plan #planner #achristiangirlslife #achristiangirlpics #achristiangirl #achristiangirlscripturewriting #BibleJournaling #scriptures #Bible #Faith #theWord #Biblereading #BibleStudy #biblescripture #bibleverses #scripturewriting #scripturereading #writingtheWord #Biblegal #BibleGirl #JesusGirl #faithdriven #planner #inspirationaljournal #prayerjournal #faithjournal (at Jefferson County, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxcRXvXpeGB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1739d9zarjml2

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Lamenting Over Lamentations

I just finished reading the book of Lamentations. I know it only has 5 chapters which is quite shorter compared to the rest of the books in the Old Testament. I’ve been to this book before but this is the first time that I was able to finish it as part of my long-existing and often-interrupted goal to finish reading the Bible beginning in 2016. Anyhow, I thank the Lord for allowing me to reach this far in my personal devotion.

I thought I’ve known Jeremiah after reading the book after His name. And so thought that was enough to explain why he was called the ‘weeping prophet’. But I guess I was wrong, it doesn’t just end there. His weeping continued in the book of Lamentations. Man, that must be tiring! It is!

The story of Jerusalem being captured and destroyed by Babylon just went on for a very long time. The Israelites kept sinning against God, continued to disobey Him, asked help from their enemies that they thought to be their friends, and became more confident to their king and rulers rather than the Almighty One. Hence, the weeping of Jeremiah just never ends.

There are so many things that I have learned from Lamentations and I just hope to summarize everything in a few words.

-Disobedience to God guarantees punishment. As for Jerusalem, she lost protection from the enemies, leadership of its people, guidance from God, and even vision of the prophets ( from LASB KJV Study Bible). The last one bothered me greatly. I mean, that is a great deal. Imagine losing that special kind of communication with God. Truly heart breaking.

-Babylon in the picture was God’s greatest instrument to show His blazing judgment towards the wayward people. Oh wait, let’s not forget that everyone in the nation was totally affected - the good and the bad ones alike. People are murdered, enslaved, died of hunger, etc. Shedding the blood of the innocent ones for the sins they didn’t commit isn’t fair at all. But that’s how painful God’s punishment is and there is no escaping from that. That’s why sins, however big or little, should be taken seriously because judgment comes in one-size-fits-all.  

-Jerusalem was in great suffering that no words can describe which why Jeremiah’s weeping totally makes lots of sense. It was even mention in Chapter 4 that the situation was worse than in Sodom and Gomorrah. Jeremiah was no’t a cry baby. No, he’s not weak. Imagine being there with him and witnessing all the gore, all the macabre series of people’s unimaginable fate. One just cannot hold back his tears. The prophet’s tears tell us another scenario in a Christian’s life --Jeremiah was not sorrowful over his own sin. Of course he wasn’t prefect but that specific setting was actually about him lamenting over his fellows’ sin and over their disastrous (although already foresighted) experience. He definitely mourned for more than one reason since he was also experiencing physical pain during Babylonian’s annihilation. In His first book, there were lots of verses that contained deprecation dedicated to those who persecuted him, but as the chapters continue, He was that weeping prophet because he surely knows that after the earthly sufferings of the wicked ones, there also awaits one greater in eternity. Definitely worth crying for.

Forgive me for leaving other important realizations. I guess I’ll just have to continue admiring Jeremiah. I felt power in his compassion like no other. This incomparable compassion towards unbelievers, the ones who persecuted him, even the ones he personally knew such as his family. I cannot imagine how he was taking all the sadness with what his eyes and his heart were bearing. But he was helplessly hopeful, if you know what I mean.   It is the grief in the midst of the affliction that reminds us to seek God all the more. And so, lamenting is a wonderful thing after all. When everything is so heartbreaking, I believe it is okay to cry. It’s another channel to get to God, a beacon that signals a humble urgency to be rescued by Him.

If I were in the same place as Jeremiah, I would definitely mourn with him with what we were witnessing. Jerusalem dealt with lots of suffering and God was satisfied in his own righteous act. But He didn’t abandon His people, in fact, He was waiting for them to walk away from their wickedness and toward His rescue.  

The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning. The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! Because of this our heart is faint; Because of these things our eyes grow dim. (Lamentations 5: 15-17 KJV)  

Joy will certainly turn into mourning if we keep disobeying God. Otherwise, hope is all the same offered by the same great God. How amazing that is!

My soul hath them still in remembrance, And is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, Therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, Because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; Therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, To the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly Wait for the salvation of the LORD. (Lamentations 3: 20-26 KJV)

For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.  (Lamentations 3: 31-32 KJV)

The Israelites clearly represents people to this very day. Some have already been suffering the sins they have once, twice, or have continually sown before, while others are on their way to their own kind of destruction.

May the Lord have mercy on us. How I pray for my friends, colleagues, family, and acquaintance to be shown God’s mercy. May they see how sinful they are, may their eyes behold God as their only hope, and may they come forth in repentance. May the word of God reach them while judgment is yet to come.

[whisperbehindthelight]

This is a reading and reflection of the scriptures from the 2nd Sunday of Lent , where we take a look at the types of "deals" ie "covenants" that God makes and what kinds of chores we have to do for him?

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The Volumes of Truth - WORDS TO LIVE BY: The Restoration (Unofficial Video) ▶  https://youtube.com/shorts/34P4_7Ce7CQ?si=XdsBmnJiz-dzrf2G 📖 Source: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Words_To_Live_By:_Part_Two "The Restoration" Behold, The Restoration is coming, coming quickly!... All things restored as in the beginning; A garden where nothing is destroyed, And none are given to destruction; No more pain or tears, no more sickness or death... Only life is, and shall be, forever!... Says The Lord. #WordsToLiveBy #TheVolumesofTruth #Prophecy #TrueProphet #ScriptureReading #WordofGod #YAHUWAH #YahuShua #JesusChrist #Wisdom #Psalms #Proverbs #Messiah #christianity #Lake #Scenery #calm #relaxing #KingdomofGod #restoration #sickness #garden #JesusComing

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*NEW Video!* The Volumes of Truth - WORDS TO LIVE BY: The Restoration (Unofficial Video) Source: https://www.thevolumesoftruth.com/Words_To_Live_By:_Part_Two

The Restoration

Behold, The Restoration is coming, coming quickly!...

All things restored as in the beginning; A garden where nothing is destroyed, And none are given to destruction; No more pain or tears, no more sickness or death...

Only life is, and shall be, forever!... 

Says The Lord.

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He Cares About You | Meditating On God's Word | Dr. Rinde Gbenro

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#verseoftheday #readyourbible #fightthegoodfight #keepthefaith #sundayafternoon #scripturereading #SAYAPRAYER (at Burbank, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CN0cynql-ke/?igshid=xxciqxrncge5

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Last week Saturday was our turn to do scripture reading in family worship. Thank you pastor WF for the opportunity and encouraged us to get Jamie read as well. Wasn’t expect he took it seriously and happily! He practiced a lot of times lol. And after that night at home he wanna read again. Good job James! #familyworship #lovesHiswords #jamiesomrjames #hesgrowingup #scripturereading https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7zhrIp9veowGZEpahMCe_3aOLI5R1XVYqQpQ0/?igshid=p0wkhvoed72k