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  • Prayer For New Year

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jan 4, 2025
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    Let you find Christ in greater measure this year satisfying your needs, nourishing your heart, guiding and leading you through still and dark waters. Let not a day pass by without seeing the face of Jesus. Let Jesus become real to you and everything else fade away. Let his face be the first thing ...read more

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  • Encounter With God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Jan 25, 2025
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    Moses' encounter with God, not only resurrected his calling, but it also resurrected a 400-year-old promise given to Abraham. Our experience or visitation with God not only resurrects our calling, but also resurrects the promises of our ...read more

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  • Resurrection Power

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
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    This generation is plagued with lot of whispers of the enemy that God cannot change or resurrect your dead situations. God allows dead situations so that by your faith, God can resurrect your dead ...read more

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  • Spend Time With God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
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    Moses after spending 40 days with God on the mountain, found out that God can be seen on a daily basis. So he pitched up a tent outside the camp to meet God on a daily basis. Some things are learned by spending time with God that are not learned anywhere else. Spending time with God teaches us ...read more

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  • Scarlet Cord

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 1, 2025
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    The scarlet cord in the window which Rahab used to save the spies, is the same cord that saved Rahab and her family and brought her out of her old life. The sacrifices we make for God's plans are the scarlet cord which will bring us out ...read more

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  • Before The Stones Cry Out

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 15, 2025
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    But Jesus answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” Luke 19: 40 What if Jesus literally meant it. Stones have a voice and are waiting to burst forth into praise. Before the stones cry out and praise God, let we start praising ...read more

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  • Journey To See God Face To Face

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 19, 2025
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    Everyone has a desire to see God face to face, but before that they are some prerequisites that need to checked 1) Am I right with God and others? 2) Are my hands clean? 3) Is my heart pure? We need to get answers to these questions from the Holy Spirit. As we receive the answers and correct ...read more

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  • Sleepless Nights

    Contributed by Samuel M on Feb 22, 2025
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    When the time came to bring Joseph out of jail into fulfilment of God's plan, God gave sleepless nights to King Pharoah. When the time came to exalt and elevate Daniel in the Babylon kingdom, God gave sleepless nights to King Nebuchadnezzar. Similarly, when God wants to fulfil his plan in your ...read more

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  • All My Days With You

    Contributed by Samuel M on Mar 14, 2025
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    Note: A small understanding from Moses’s life Lord Jesus, as long as Moses was on earth, you were staying with him on earth. You found a home on earth in Moses’s tent of meeting. Lord Jesus, you are always looking for someone with whom you can stay on Earth. Lord Jesus, since you don’t have ...read more

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  • See The Lamb Of God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Mar 19, 2025
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    When we are going through difficult times( or testing) and still remain obedient to God’s word, we will find, see (the lamb of God) and receive a greater (or deeper) revelation of the lamb of God. When Abraham was about to offer his only son as a sacrifice, he saw the ram caught in the thicket. ...read more

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  • Change Of Perspective

    Contributed by Samuel M on Apr 26, 2025
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    Without God, even the smallest problem can become a Goliath. With God, a challenge like Goliath becomes a small problem. There is a change of perspective when do things with God. What appears big and large becomes small because God is so powerful that everything shrinks ...read more

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  • Lord Jesus Intervene

    Contributed by Samuel M on Apr 26, 2025
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    Lord Jesus, if you do not come into our battles, the war will be one-sided. The enemy will triumph, and there will be a lot of destruction. If you arrive late, we will be totally destroyed. Dear Lord Jesus, Let my ...read more

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  • Seek God

    Contributed by Samuel M on Apr 26, 2025
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    The Christian life can be summarized in two lines: "Always preparing to meet God" and "Meet God." ...read more

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  • All That I Am Or Hope To Be, I Owe To My Angel ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my ...read more

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  • I Do Hope Your Christmas Has Had A Little Touch ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this ...read more

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  • I Often Wonder Whether We Do Not Rest Our Hopes ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false ...read more

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  • Charles A. Lindbergh Said, "We Actually Live ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Jan 5, 2007
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    Charles A. Lindbergh said, “We actually live today in our dreams of yesterday and living in these dreams, we dream again. A healthy church lives out of a healthy dream. But not all church dreams are created equal. Some congregational dreams are founded on hope and concern for others. Some begin ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • I Wasn't Supposed To Live...

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Apr 13, 2024
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    I believe that God called me to preach in the summer of my freshman year in high school. He gave me a dream about one of my best friends who was somewhere in eternity screaming in pain: He was crying out to me, "You never told me. You never told me! Larry, you talked to me about baseball. ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Wiersbe: Idealism, Realism, And Skepticism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    WIERSBE: IDEALISM, REALISM, AND SKEPTICISM Warren Wiersbe: "A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned." (CT Classics, ...read more

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  • Brother Lawrence Was A French Monk Who Lived From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Carla Powell on Feb 2, 2002
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    Brother Lawrence was a French monk who lived from 1611 to 1691. You might think that a man who was born nearly 400 years ago would have very little to say to today’s working people, but he had some great insights into our theme of ministry in daily life. Brother Lawrence (The Practice of the ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran