Remember God in Your Daily Life

The other day I pulled out a small box that has a deck of cards the size of a business cards in it. These weren’t playing cards they were cards with Bible verses on them. Reading through them blessed my life. So, I thought that I would just put some of these in this article to bless yours.
Psalm 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Proverbs 1: 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

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THE EPHESIANS SPEAK IN TONGUES (Speaking in Tongues Part VI)

Notice the word “received.” Remember that I told you there are two Greek words for the English word “received.” The first is the word dechomai, which means receive passively. In other words a person would receive something and does not do anything with it, he has it but doesn’t use it. The other Greek word is lambano. This is translated received but means both getting something AND using it. It is to manifest, operate or use what was given.
The word “received” in verse two is the word lambano. You will see in verse six how and what they operated or manifested

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THE GENTILES RECEIVE (Speaking in Tongues Part V)

A most wonderful thing happened in chapter ten of the book of Acts. Something that nobody had expected except for God. Nowhere in the Bible was it foretold nor had it happened before. This great happening ushered in a new age and a new category of people. This wonderful happening was when the holy spirit was poured out on the Gentiles, also.

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THE IDEOLOGY THAT LEADS TO PAIN AND SUFFERING

For decades, while the populace of the World wasn’t looking, the edifice of World ruin was built by flawed concepts and ideas. These concepts and ideas started entering this country in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds. Because of the policies and actions of people in power using these concepts and ideas, we will see suffering on a world scale and if things continue on the course that they are on now we will see wars, government overthrows and possibly World War III.

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PAUL RECEIVES (Speaking in Tongues Part IV)

The early Christian Church was persecuted so that Christians fled their homes to save themselves from prison and death. One of the most zealous people persecuting the Church was Saul. Saul was the epitome of one following the Law of Moses. Saul kept the whole law, a task that was and is nearly impossible. I can see how his zealousness could have overlapped into persecution of the Church. All he knew at the time was the Law and anything contrary to it, to him, couldn’t be right. So, here he was dragging men and women from their homes and throwing them in prison. He approved of stoning Stephen, a disciple of Jesus Christ and he continued to destroy the Church.

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SPEAKING IN TONGUES PART III

There are five accounts of people believing the truth of God’s Word, being born again AND speaking in tongues in the Book of Acts. The first was on the day of Pentecost, which was handled in part II. So, we are now going to study the second account of speaking in tongues which occurs in Acts chapter eight

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BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE

I emailed a friend today to find out how he was doing. In my email I encouraged him to be strong and of a good courage. I did it in a couple of lines but because of these times that we find ourselves I think it would be good to expound on “be strong and of good courage.”

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SPEAKING IN TONGUES PART II

In part one we explored the benefits of speaking in tongues. In this writing we will start looking at the records of speaking in tongues found in the Bible. The first record of speaking in tongues is in Acts chapter two.

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THE “EXCELLENT SPIRIT” OF DANIEL 6:3

When studying God’s Word, the Bible, we must adhere to the principles of biblical research to accurately interpret it. In second Peter it tells us who can give the interpretation of scripture.
II Peter 1: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Do you see what it says? There is no “ private” interpretation. “Private”, Greek word – idios, means one’s own or private interpretation. Then, that being the case, no one has the right or license to give their own interpretation of the Bible. Then either the Bible interprets itself or else there is no interpretation. If the Bible is the Word of God then wouldn’t God protect it and give us principles to understanding His Word? That is a good question and the answer is – yes He did set it up so that we can understand it.

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DOES EVERYTHING HAPPEN FOR A REASON?

I am interrupting my series on Speaking in Tongues to write this article. The reason for this is that I have been hearing “everything happens for a reason” over and over again. People use this with the sincerity and conviction in their mind that a higher power, that rules over all, makes those decisions for you and THAT is why everything happens for a reason. You know, every time I hear that used it is always when something negative happens. What they should be saying is that God willed it to happen or it was divinely determined.

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