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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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Jeremiah wailed over a dying and perishing nation, a nation that had been conquered by the Babylonians and taken into captivity.
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Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity – 1 Timothy 4:12 Timothy was Paul’s companion in many of his journeyings. The Apostle, having formed a high opinion in the young man, arranged that…
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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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We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. – 1 John 5:18 An old preacher told me sometime back that for a child of God, your greatest shield against enemy attacks is righteousness. Living…
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Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. – Colossians 3:2 The Christian walk is one that requires absolute focus and fixation on Christ. However, our desire to look to earthly things instead of heavenly things comes from two flaws in thinking. We either look to earthly things because we think they will…
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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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