Tag: devotion
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Sitting With Jesus
“About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with…
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Marriage Works Well When…
“It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he…
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Is God Good?
“Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so…
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How Do I Know I’m Blessed?
“Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never…
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What Does Love Look Like?
What does love look like? Ask ten random people that question, and you’ll probably get ten different answers. Our world is full of ideas—some right, some partially right, and some blatantly, tragically wrong—of what love is and what it looks like. In his Word, God gives a different, very surprising answer of what love looks…
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Equipped to Live for God
Do you feel prepared to handle the tough questions in life? Where do you find your answers? This week’s comforting post from the NPH blog reminds you how God equips you to live for him.
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Proclaim the Good News
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor” (Luke 4:18-19). Quoting these verses…
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Knowing Christ’s Love
“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”(Ephesians 3:17-19). Sometimes, the…