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Help Me Believe

"...God's power is very great for us who believe. That power is the same as the great strength God used to raise Christ from the dead and put him at his right side in the heavenly world." Ephesians 1:19-20 One of my favorite things about the Bible is the way it all connects to tell one big story about God. I can read a passage that reminds me of another one. Then that one links to another which supports yet another. Pretty soon my route through scripture starts looking like a spiderweb...

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Prayers of Thankfulness

Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself praying for you with a glad heart. I am so pleased that you have continued on in this with us, believing and proclaiming God’s Message, from the day you heard it right up to the present. There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day...

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Psalm 45

Psalm 45:1 (ESV) My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; My tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. The context of this Psalm was that it was written for a king on his wedding day, but it may also be interpreted as a messianic psalm as well. That means, it can be interpreted as a veiled reference to Jesus. Either way you take it, I love the imagery and poetry that the psalmist is implementing here. So, I want to draw your attention to that. Verse...

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