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Luke 19:38 ‘Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!’
Can you imagine the consternation as the disciples shouted out about Jesus being King in the face of the Pharisees.
The Pharisees knew they had to obey the Romans in order to keep the peace and stay in power – at least by man's rules…
The disciples knew Jesus was their ultimate King because He came from God; nothing could demote Jesus in their hearts!
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Isaiah 42:8 ‘I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
God does not send in anybody or anything else to be the thing we should worship! We need to worship God alone!
God, being 3 parts in 1 God, means we need that worship to be aimed at Father, Son and Spirit!
It is useless to try and worship anything created by God because we are then worshipping what God has created instead of God!
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Psalm 71:7 I have become a sign to many; you are my strong refuge.
Have you ever wondered why so many Psalms have King David calling out to be protected?
David made no secret about the time he spent calling out for God’s protection and strength. He knew God was his strong refuge!
Now we have all these words written down to encourage us by so we too can count God as our strong refuge!
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Psalm 70:1 Hasten, O God, to save me; come quickly, Lord, to help me.
What are you going to do today to make the world a better place?
Who will you involve in your quest?
Will you make sure you have the right people at the right time to get things done?
Why not follows God’s instructions to ensure things are done properly instead!
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Psalm 116:1 I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
Yesterday we called out for Jesus to hear us. Today we thank Him for hearing us and answering us!
This is how we should be living our lives with Christ, continually making sure He is involved in our every day lives, and continually praising Him for being involved!
Jesus does not leave us to fend for ourselves in the world, He continually tries to guide us and protect us…
Are you listening?
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John 19:16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.
Pilate gave in to the pressure of the crowds around him. He did so because he was not confident to do otherwise!
If we hold Jesus close to our hearts and allow Him to guide us, we can be confident we have it right…
It’s when we walk away from Christ we get to fear the world because the world suddenly becomes bigger than God in our eyes!
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1 Peter 4:2 As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.
Where does your satisfaction come from? I have found satisfaction in many things, but the most comes from helping others or worshipping God!
It may sound strange to some that we can and do get great satisfaction from worshipping God, but they don’t know the truth until they try it!
God has shown us His great love and power in many ways, we need to acknowledge Him and continue to show that to others too!
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Romans 6:4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
It is hard for us to accept someone may be willing to stand up for us let alone lay down their life… but Jesus did!
Not just any life, but His perfect and sinless life, given in our stead so we can live eternally!
Jesus, remember me!
He is Risen! Hallelujah!
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Psalm 16:5 Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.
When we are willing to follow God’s commands and try to follow His will in our lives, we will see security and strength beyond our earthly imaginations!
How can I say such things – I can say them because I have been witness to them and have experienced this in my own life many times.
For most of us, seeing is believing, but if we are able to believe first, we will see the results first hand!
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Psalm 33:5 The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
Do you realise the Lord loves us in spite of our lack of righteousness and justice!
We sometimes get tied up in believing we have to be righteous and good before God can love us…
We only need to look around us and see the earth is full of His unfailing love in spite of all the things we do wrong!
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Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, ‘Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.’
This is one of those moments you begin to see the power of Christ working through the disciples.
They had been there and seen it, and now it was time to re-enact and believe all the way!
It is not that Peter could do this by himself, but because of His belief in Christ and belief in the promise he would be able to do great things.
What is Christ promising you?
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Psalm 8:2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
Do you think it takes the backing of a conglomerate to make something good?
All inventions have to start somewhere and it is not always in the biggest and brightest surroundings.
We need to take notice of every person who is willing to praise God, not just the priests and worship leaders, but everyone!
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John 21:6 He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
How many times have you failed to do something and ended up thinking it was an impossible task to do?
How many times have you succeeded to do something because you got help at just the right time?
Are you willing to call out for help from God before you get to the point where things fail because you cannot do them?
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Acts 4:13 When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realised that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.
What makes others have great success? Have you tried to learn from what others are doing right?
Peter and John did not go to college to learn how to be apostles – they simply went with Jesus and tried to follow His ways!
What greater encouragement do we need other than to see how people are able to do so much more by being with Jesus all the way!
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Psalm 118:22 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
Despite what religious leaders and people in charge teach, we need to teach the truth about Easter and about Jesus!
Despite politicians and world leaders turning their backs on Jesus, we need to turn toward Him.
Queen Elizabeth is a prime example of a world leader who continues to show people she believes and trusts in Jesus.
Be the example!
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Proverbs 15:28 The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.
How do we know what we are doing is righteous? How do we know what we are doing is not evil?
The answer is we don’t know as humans, but we can know if we have faith with and trust in God.
If we are willing to allow Him to guide us in our lives, we will see a change in the things we do – we will be able to look back and see we moved toward being righteous!
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Psalm 126:5 Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.
Are you willing to get stuck in and put up with the hardships in order to gain at the end?
When the going gets tough, most of us will give up after a while because we can’t put up with those hardships.
To follow Christ’s example means being willing to put up with whatever the world throws at you in order to gain from Christ!
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John 3:19 This is the verdict: light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
When we were in boarding school we used to chat after lights out and even sneak about in the dark; sometimes a master or prefect would flick the lights on and some would get caught out!
Our lives are like this some of the time. We do things behind people’s back and without others knowing – and we know it is wrong!
God has the lights on all the time, even when we don’t realise it!
Acts like the lights are always on!
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Psalm 34:19 The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all;
Have you ever been mountain climbing or abseiling where you have to place your life in the hands of another person holding the rope?
God has a tight hold of that rope and we need to lean back and allow Him to take the weight, trusting in Him totally!
When we face hard times, God is there willing to help us every step of the way… we need to allow Him to help us!
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John 6:5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming towards him, he said to Philip, ‘Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?’
When Jesus was getting ready to feed the crowds, He already had a plan but wanted to disciples to think about what was happening!
Jesus asked the disciples a very earthly question because He could probably sense how they were reacting to the continued building of the crowd.
Jesus wants us to stop looking at the physical earthly ways of achieving stuff and focus on asking Him, the one behind all power, to help those in need around us.
God does not expect us to work miracles by ourselves!