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Deut 1:9-10, 12-13 At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone. The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky. But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes…
Mat 21:18-19 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. 19 – And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree…
Pro 17:3 The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts. The refiners of silver have their fining ( refining) pots in which they purify the silver from the worthless metal. The Goldsmiths too have their heat resistant containers to melt and purify their gold. It is…
1Ch 9:23 So they and their children were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, the house of the tabernacle, by assignment. 1Ch 9:24 The gatekeepers were assigned to the four directions: the east, west, north, and south. A gate is an opening. It is not just an opening, but a…
Num 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. Caleb and the other spies returned from surveying the promised land. Ten out of twelve brought a negative report, but Joshua and Caleb brought a positive one….
Joe 2:13 So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm. The idiom ” rend our hearts” expresses spiritual internal brokenness. People in the old Testament days expressed sorrow by tearing…
Acts 3:5-6 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 6 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…
Rut 1:16 But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Rut 1:17 Where you die, I will die, and there will…
1Co 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. To discern means to understand or know something through the power of the Holy Spirit. Discernment can help us understand the mind of…
Isa 50:2,4 “The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens my ear to hear as the learned. We cannot downplay the power of our words; our brain is…