Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him (Ephesians 1:3-4, ESV, emphasis added). Recently I had
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Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body (Proverbs 16:24, ESV). This proverb uses two interesting phrases about the response of gracious words: sweetness to the soul and healing to the body. Recent brain research indicates that our words and resultant actions wear neurological pathways that subsequent experiences follow. If
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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God (Romans 8:14, NLT). There is no greater adventure than following the leading of God’s Spirit — but there are both trials and blessings involved. With adventure, there is a price and a reward. Let’s consider four heroes of Biblical adventure —
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God gives blessings to us even when we sleep. Psalm 127:2 How to sleep is a major teaching in the Bible. God wants your sleep to be a time of rest from eyelids-shut to eyelids-open eight hours later. “Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” is a diminutive to what God wants to do for you while sleeping. God
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God has and always is doing more than you know. In a time of increasing tribulations, it is too easy to forget God’s miracles in your life. Instead, we focus on the immediate and forget the blessings, healings, and miracles from the past. King David in the Old Testament hired Asaph to write songs of
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