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English Standard Version DAY EIGHT 1 Samuel 16 – Morning 1Sa 16:1 The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”…

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     And Abraham built an altar . . and bound Isaac his son.      — Genesis 22:9 This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. what God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to do what Jesus did, viz., sacrifice…

Beloved, do not imitate the bad, but the good. The one doing good is of God; but the one doing bad has not seen God. – 3 John 1:11 bad Beloved doing God good hidden imitate one seen unseen witnessed

Til I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. –1 Timothy 4:13 attention doctrine exhortation reading return>>> We’ve Moved This Discussion To The Forum…Comments (0)

     But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of      Our Lord Jesus Christ.      — Galatians 6:14 The Gospel of Jesus Christ always forces an issue of will. Do I accept God’s verdict on sin in the Cross of Christ? Have I the slightest interest in the death of Jesus? Do I want to be…

Psalm 78:25 Man Did Eat Angels? food (1731/32) Posted by JEC Admin on Fri, 07/10/2009 – 14:38 PSALM 78:25 Man did eat angels? food. The Psalmist is here setting forth the great ingratitude of the children of Israel in the wilderness, in that they still went on to provoke God, notwithstanding the great things that he did for them. In…

Num 21:1 And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel had come the Way of Spies; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. Num 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow to Jehovah, and said, If giving You give this people into my hand, then I will exterminate their cities. Num 21:3…

1 SAMUEL 29:4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for…

He that begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith in faith is faith astray. — A. W. Tozer

Mal 2:6 True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. Mal 2:7 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

‘To be hurt without forgiving, crushed without becoming more caring, suffer without growing more sensitive, makes suffering senseless, futile, a tragic loss, the greatest waste of all.’ — Dick Innes Make Jesus Christ your example; “When he suffered, He didn’t make..threats but left everything to the one who judges fairly” — {1 Peter 2:23}.

The Hebrew word adam is translated either as ?man? or ?Adam? depending on context and on the presence or lack of the definite article (?the? in English, ha in Hebrew). So ?ha-adam? is translated usually as ?the man? (referring to either an unspecified man or to mankind as a whole, depending on context), whereas adam (without ha) is translated as…

LET US KEEP THE FEAST

Mat 4:1 Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil. Mat 4:2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He hungered. Mat 4:3 And coming near to Him, the Tempter said, If You are the Son of God, speak that these stones may become loaves. Mat 4:4 But answering,…

Jer 7:1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, Jer 7:2 Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah and call out there this Word, and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah all Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah. Jer 7:3 So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways…

Zec 8:1 And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying, Zec 8:2 So says Jehovah of Hosts: I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great wrath. Zec 8:3 So says Jehovah: I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called a City…

Fond of lawsuits, little wealth, Fond of doctors, little health. ~Proverb, (Spanish)~

The world will not know we are Christians by our bumper stickers and T-shirts, but by our love. — Shane Claiborne

Eph 3:1 Because of this, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you, the nations, Eph 3:2 if, indeed, you heard of the stewardship of the grace of God given to me for you, Eph 3:3 that by revelation He made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief, Eph 3:4 by the reading…

Rom 11:1 I say then, Did not God thrust away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham’s seed, of the tribe of Benjamin. Rom 11:2 “God did not thrust away His people” whom He foreknew. Psa. 94:14 Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with…

Personal Life Some things may be neglected with but little loss to the spiritual life, but to neglect communion with God is to hurt ourselves where we cannot afford it. The Root of the Righteous, 9. ________________________________ Personal Life: To Think God’s Thoughts But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day…

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for? ~Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto (l. 97)~

Funerals, divorces, illnesses, and stays in the hospital — you can’t lie about life at such times. Maybe that’s why he’s always present at such moments. — Max Lucado

Start your prayers, thank you Father for my life.

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. — 1 Corinthians 10:12

“My Beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the […]

Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly devoted to God. — William Law

The Old Testament is an account of a Nation. The New Testament is an account of a MAN. The Nation was founded and nurtured of God to bring the Man into the world. God Himself became a Man, to give mankind a concrete, definite, tangible idea of what kind of Person to think of when we think of God. God…