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“O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.” – Isaiah 33:2 In our verse for today, we see Prophet Isaiah make this plea to God for His grace and salvation. He acknowledges our dependence on Him and our trust in Him…
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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. – Matthew 5:7 Matthew captures one of the most profound sermons Jesus gave while on earth. Christian scholars and believers like to call it the beatitudes of Jesus Christ. In this sermon, our master touched on several keys of the kingdom. Mercy, forgiveness, peace, humility…
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Therefore He says “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” – James 4:6 Yesterday we learned about Hannah and her childbirth woes. Today, we will turn our focus on her husband’s second wife, Peninnah, who taunted Hannah year after year over her lack of children. Not much is said about her in…
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As she kept on praying to the LORD, Eli observed her mouth. Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. – 1 Samuel 1:12-13 Our first glimpse of Hannah depicts a troubled woman who was constantly taunted by her husband’s second wife, Peninnah. We learn from…
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Then Moses said, “If you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place. How will anyone know that you look favorably on me—on me and on your people—if you don’t go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth.” –…
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Humility has always been the hallmark of Christ and a true trait of all who follow Him. To drum home how crucial humility is, He preached it severally during His ministry on earth. The most notable one is found in Matthew 20, where He tells us that “whoever desires to be great must first be…
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“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” – Philippians 4:13 Preaching the gospel of God to Nineveh, the then force of the world, seemed an audacious task for Jonah. The hostile relations between Israel and Assyria meant that Jonah harbored a great deal of hate for the nation of Nineveh. So when…
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For Christians everywhere, including us, Easter Sunday is a wonderful occasion to celebrate Christ’s victory over death. As Christians, we hold that Jesus Christ rose from the dead bodily.
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Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. – Deuteronomy 7:9 Oxford dictionary defines a faithful person as one who is loyal and steadfast to a person or a cause. To…
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