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Mark 10:41 When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John.
How do you treat someone who has just been caught out doing something wrong? Do you call them names for being stupid, or support and encourage them?
It is very easy to join in with everyone else and blame the people who have done wrong for what happens. It is harder to try and support them in recovering from their mistakes.
Jesus did not sit back and blame people; He stepped forward and tried to help people to change their ways and to live for God!
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Psalm 147:10 His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;
I don't know about you, but there are TV series I don't watch just because I don't want to, not because they are bad or fiction or anything else...
God does not look for the biggest and the best. He does not look for the tallest or strongest. God looks at your heart!
God wants to see your faith in action, not your riches, strength, power or might...
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Luke 4:13 When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.
When you show you are strong, others will see your strength. When you show you are weak, others may well take advantage of you!
God wants us to remain strong, not in our own strength, but in the strength He gives us through our faith in Him.
Jesus showed the devil He was fully relying on God and nothing the evil one could do would touch His human body.
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Luke 4:39 So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.
What do you do when God answers your prayers? What do you do when He does not answer them quickly?
We need to go back and revisit prayers we have asked in the past so we can see when God answers – and then we need to praise Him more because He has answered prayers...
What does that praise look like? It could be singing, talking, working, living, sharing, helping... just do it!
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John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
I’m not asking you all to give up your life for someone today – please don’t! Jesus gave us the ultimate example by giving His life for us.
He did this because we were all guilty and we were all facing the ultimate price to pay for our sins – our death.
What He did was to give us life by giving us His life. He did this knowing God would accept His death as the final payment for our sins.
He did this because there was no other way!
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John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
Why did Jesus ask to have glory shone on Him? Was it to boast before people? No. It was to shine light upon God!
We need to shine for Jesus – which means not boasting about what we can do or have done, but to boast about what Christ does!
Jesus gave God the glory, but, because He was fully human, needed a bit of a boost to keep going!
It’s OK to ask for help!
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Psalm 126:2 Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy.
What do you think about when you talk about the Joy of Christ? Do you think of the happiest time on earth you can have?
This is a simple view of what Joy can mean – when your life is filled with laughter and all you can talk about is the great time you are having!
God is not going to fill out lives with earthly wealth and possessions if He knows they will corrupt our hearts!
God want us to enjoy real joy, which goes beyond our simple understanding and fills our lives with something new!
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Psalm 126:1 When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.
Don’t forget to look back on the history we know from our bibles. Don’t forget to see how much God has done for people!
It is easy to focus on the bad things and only remember those – because that way when things get tough we feel like we are not the only ones...
But if we remember the good times as well, then we can remember the promise which God has kept and served up for many before us!
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Hebrews 7:22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.
God made a promise to us all through Christ to always be there for us! This is a promise!
Because of this promise, Christ is our guarantor for a better deal for us all; not just something He said, but a guarantor!
Jesus demonstrated that guarantee by giving His own life on the cross for our sin debt. We are free, yes free indeed!
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Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;
Do you treat God’s Word as something extraordinary? Do you treat it as special?
Isn’t God’s word simply the truth as given to us by God through many people over thousands of years of our history?
Why don’t we treat it as being totally natural and fully expected – as if it was the whole truth!
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John 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
Have you ever promised someone you would come back for them only to have things change in your life and you could not go back for them?
We all fall short of our promises because we live in an ever changing world and make promises not taking into account what could happen.
Jesus knew what would happen and still promised because He knew He could keep His promises to us.
Trust Him.
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Ephesians 2:17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
Jesus did not come to cause problems and keep people apart; He came to share His peace and encourage us to live together in harmony.
No matter how far we are physically, emotionally or spiritually from God, Christ and the Holy Spirit; He came to bring us closer together and closer to Him.
Put down the things which are causing you stress and strain in your life and allow Christ to guide you to a more peaceful life with Him!
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Romans 11:11 Again I ask: did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.
Have you ever thought you have done too much wrong for God to even look at you?
God knows exactly where you are in life right now and He is still reaching down to give you a hand up!
God knows when you trip and fall and wants to pick you up each time – but we need to accept that help instead of constantly rejecting it through fear!
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Hebrews 9:14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
When the people of the Old Testament offered the blood of various animals in sacrifice, it was to ceremonially cleanse them of their sins.
In others words, this was to allow others to see they were willing to be washed by blood because God wanted that.
When Jesus paid for our sins with His own blood, it was a final and permanent sacrifice to cleanse our bodies and souls once and for all!
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Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
The temple gates were huge and magnificent and probably very hard to open each time a person wanted to come in or out.
They probably had a small secondary gate or door which could be opened up to allow people in and out – but for someone like a king, the whole gate would be opened up fully!
God is saying we are as important as our king, King Jesus, who is stepping forward to invite us in, personally.
God say we should expect the whole gate to open because we are His children.
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Luke 14:24 I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.
We all have been invited to a banquet with Christ in heaven; if we want to attend it, then we need to accept the invitation before it’s too late!
If the party starts and we have not replied to the invitation, it’s too late!
God has given us all the time we need to accept Christ’s invitation, but one day it will be too late if we have not accepted...
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Luke 14:26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my disciple.
Don’t think of these words as meaning “love a little less” instead of “hate” because that detracts from the true meaning of these words.
Christ is talking to the masses here and using these words to tell people one of the biggest obstacles to loving God is the so-called love some of us think of to do with families...
God wants us to love everyone, including friends and families, but to love them with Christian love and not family feud style “love!”
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Psalm 27:14 Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
How many times have you called out to God to help you in the past?
How many of those times did you stop and wait for God to answer before rushing off and doing something else?
God wants to commune with us – which means we need to talk to Him, but also need to stop and wait for Him to talk back to us through whatever means He takes!
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Psalm 98:4 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;
How do you go about showing people you are happy about something?
How do you go about showing people you know someone famous?
How do you go about showing people you love them?
Are you willing to combine all of those ways to tell people about Jesus?
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Luke 16:13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Jesus warns us about the love of money in many places, both through parables and directly.
It is not money which is evil, but the love of it which is... If we run after money more than we run after God, then we are putting God after our riches...
Why not try give someone in need a boost instead of saving up to buy something you are yearning for?