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An Arise Ministries Network
Category: Devotional
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O Israel, return to the Lord your God. For you have stumbled because of your iniquity; Take words with you, And return to the Lord. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity; Receive us graciously, For we will offer the sacrifices of our lips (Hosea 14:1-2). Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak…
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This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness (Lamentations 3:21-23). Faithfulness is one of the great attributes of our Heavenly Father. He is faithful to forgive us when we confess our…
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Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas…
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The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, they have taken away the Lord out of…
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Now when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted Him as He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave You this authority?” (Matthew 21:23) Have you ever really thought about the two sides of our Savior? Consider that on…
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Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by…
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And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works; behold, I have set before thee an open door, and…
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And so it is written, The first Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit (I Corinthians 15:45). The first Adam and the last Adam are mentioned together in this verse. The first Adam is described as a living soul. The second Adam- Jesus- is described as a quickening…
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“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18) “Pastor, if you only knew the things I have done. Why would God forgive me?” “Maybe God will forgive…
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A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; from the produce of his lips he shall be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit (Proverbs 18:20-21). Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us,…