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Grace, is an overflowing river it cannot be contained and restrained without it being frustrated (i.e. ceasing to be really grace). You can’t receive it without giving it back, because it’s a motivating power. God gave grace to make us free and to make us channels of blessings.
The great apostle said … “Ye all are [...]
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25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, [...]
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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
- Psalm 139:23-24(KJV)
How many times in conversation, have you heard or used the words “search me” or “you know me” or “see my heart” [...]
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Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
- James 4:7(NKJV)
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But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Romans 6:23b
Why does Paul refer to salvation as a free gift (Rom 5:15-18)? It is because we don’t have to deserve it or earn it, to receive it. In fact, the cost of salvation was far too dear, for any man to [...]
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But he knows the way that I take [He has concern for it, appreciates and pays attention to it]. When He has tried me, I shall come forth as refined gold [pure and luminous].
- Job 23:10(Amplified version)
Thoughts about this glorious Christian way excite me; Jesus talked about two ways: a way that leads to destruction [...]
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