Praise the Ever-Present God

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The previous post in the Praise series, Praise the Omniscient, focused on the eternal truth that Almighty God knows everything about everything and everybody all the time. Today, let’s praise the God who is everywhere, all the time, forever. He is always with us. We can never escape Him. He is Ever-Present, Omnipresent. “Am I a God…

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Grieve or Please

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God’s Love God’s love for His children, those who trust in His Son, and have received Christ as Lord and Savior, is unchanging and eternal. God is for us (Romans 8:31). Christ Jesus intercedes for us (Romans 8:34). NOTHING can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans…

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Don’t Think About It!

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Don’t Think About It! Have you ever been told not to think about something? Or, maybe, you’ve told yourself to stop thinking about something. You may have done this exercise as a party game or in corporate training. “Picture an elephant.” ………… “Now stop thinking about the elephant.” How did that work for you? Probably…

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Nothing to Forgive

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Uh-Oh. Someone is on the wrong side! When someone asks for forgiveness, I’ve sometimes said: “There is nothing to forgive.” And a friend recently said that to me for something I felt bad about. I wonder if that is right. For some reason the person and I asked for forgiveness. It could be a mis-directed…

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Praise the Omniscient

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facebook.com/harry-mouse+durgin God knows everything. He is omniscient. OLord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on…

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How to Pray for What You Already Have

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Too often I will pray for something God has already given me. My problem isn’t that I lack God’s resources but that I don’t apply His provision in my life. Don’t Pray to Receive What You Already Have If I pray for strength to cope with something, or the ability to do what He told…

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Is God Sovereign Over Our Sins?

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God is sovereign over everything and everybody all the time. Period. (See Chapters 2-5 in When Storms Come: Will You Be Ready?) Does that mean God is sovereign over our sins? Yes. God is sovereign over our sins, but we are entirely responsible for them. God does not cause evil, He is not tempted by evil, nor does…

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Feeling Unlovable?

Feeling unlovable? Oh oh. Whose lies are you listening to? If you are a King’s kid, Almighty God loves you with an infinite, unfathomable love. If you don’t yet believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and have not yet received Him as your Lord and Savior, turn to Him (See Becoming a Child of…

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Praise His Name

Praise His Name We, believers, are called to praise His Name. Iwill sing praises to Your name. (2 Samuel 22:50) O may Your glorious name be blessed and exalted above all blessing and praise! (Nehemiah 9:5) Praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. (Joel 2:26) God acts for His Name’s sake.…

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Next Time

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Regret We all have past actions—past sins—we regret. We may have spent considerable time reprimanding ourselves. We may still be stuck in that past sin. Regretting sin is a good thing if it leads to godly sorrow, repentance, and determination to follow the Lord. (See, for example, 2 Corinthians 7). But it is not a…

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