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TRUE CHARACTER

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Matthew 5:11-12 (NKJV) Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Do you know the old saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going?"  That is the way it is for you and me.  When things get tough, we get tougher.  That is what God is looking for: Committed people, faithful people, people who will stick around even when they are reviled and persecuted, and all kinds of evil is said against them falsely for His sake. The Bible says that Jesus is going to judge us by our faithfulness. In Matthew 25, Jesus tells a parable about three servants who were given a certain amount of money. The master went off on a journey, and when he returned there was a day of accountability.  Two of the servants were faithful, and the master said to them, “Well done, go...
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BE OF GOOD COURAGE

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Psalm 31:24 (NKJV) Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your   heart, all you who hope in the LORD. Our God is the One who strengthens us.  He is the One who makes sure that all things work out.  He is the One who cannot be moved in His love and goodness to us.  As you read the Word of God, every time you see a scripture that talks about Who God is, what He has, and what He can do, underline it or write it in your journal.  You will see the goodness of the Lord! We can be of good courage, as this verse says, because our God, our Heavenly Father, cannot lie.  If He said something in His Word we need to trust and believe Him, just like we would believe the word of a trusted friend.  Our God is there for us and wants the very best for our lives.  And the amazing thing is that He knows what is best for us! As we stand in courage, and as we declare what His Word declares, we see a connection that brings the answers to th...
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GOD IS UTTERLY DEPENDABLE

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Numbers 23:19 (NIV) God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of   man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act?   Does he promise and not fulfill? Did you ever think of that?  It is impossible for God to lie!  There is no way on planet earth or this entire universe that one lie could come from the lips of God.  What is so big about that?  Well think of it.  If God cannot lie, then whatever we read in His Word has to be truth, and if it is truth, then I can believe it and receive it! See, faith is born from the seed of trust.  If I believe your word, then I will trust you.  If you say, “I'll be there at such a time” and I trust you, I will be waiting for you at that time.  But if you are inconsistent with your word and I cannot trust it all the time, then I will not be sure if you are going to be there, so it builds within me a lack of faith in your word. Brothers and sisters, on...
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GOD IS FAITHFUL

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1 Corinthians 1:9 (NKJV) God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. We could stop with the first three words of this verse and have all that we need to be victorious!  GOD IS FAITHFUL!  What a true statement.  We have seen it over and over in our lives.  So many times we think something is not going to work, or we think something is going to get worse not better, and then it just comes together.  Sometimes it comes together so smoothly that we do not even notice it! God is faithful.  He is the Creator, and if we can ever get into our minds that He is responsible for us, it will take so much weight off of us.  Think about it.   God has to provide food, not just for all of the humans on earth, but also for all the animals and all the fish and all the insects.  Do you kind of get the idea?  Yet He does it in such a way that we do not even think about it...
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JESUS CHRIST, ALWAYS THE SAME

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Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and   forever. As we go through life, we meet people who are different than us.  We meet some who are pretty stable, and those who seem to change like the weather.  But one thing that I have found throughout my years of life is that God never changes! This verse says pretty clearly that the way Jesus was in the Bible is how He is today.  He never changes!  Not now, nor will He for all eternity.  So my question then would be, “How was Jesus in the Bible?”  This will give me an understanding of how He is today, and also how eternity is going to be. As we read the Bible, we see that Jesus was a healer, so we can have faith and confidence that He is still a healer today.  We know this because His Word states it, but we also know this because we have seen people healed in our lives.  Many of us have been healed by this great Savior, Jesus Christ! We al...
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GIVE WHAT YOU HAVE

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Acts 3:6-8 (NKJV) Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. Many times, we try to give what we think others might need, but as we see in this story, Peter had something far better than money!  He had the power of the Name of Jesus, and with that Name, he was able to see a miracle happen.  So do not always look at what you do not have, look at what you do have!  What is in your hand?  You might say, “Well, I do not have a hundred dollars to give to the work of my church,” but God will always say, "What do you have?"  If you have five dollars and you are willing to give that with a cheerful heart, God sees it ...
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ENCOURAGER

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Acts 23:11 (NKJV) But the following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Be of good cheer, Paul; for as you have testified for Me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome.” In the world we have many talkers, yet so few encouragers.  Here we see Paul is going to have to give a witness of our Lord in Rome, and Jesus, the greatest encourager of all, stood by Paul and lifted him up.  In life, there are times when we get down and we need people that will lift us up.  In saying that, remember that there are people all around us who need a pat on the back or a good handshake, and encouragement. It is so easy to look at the mistakes that people make and the little things that people do wrong and major on them, but what would happen if we looked at the things people did right and majored on them? What would happen to a husband or wife if they encouraged each other instead of looking at the mistakes that are made?  What would happen i...
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