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Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ” Too blessed to be stressed” is an idiom used to downplay or shift focus from one’s feelings of stress by instead considering all that one has to…
Eze 36:26-27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. A…
Prov 16:16much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver! Baltes and Staudinger (2000, p. 124 ) define wisdom as “expertise in the fundamental pragmatics of life.” This is further defined as “knowledge and judgment about the essence of the human condition and the ways and means of planning, managing, and…
Psa 66:19 But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Psa 66:20 Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me When life is going on well, we should praise him. When life is a struggle, we should cry out…
1Ki 18:45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel. 1 Kings 18:46 Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to…
1Sa13:5-6 The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven. When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves…
Exo 14:5 Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people; and they said, “Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” Exo 14:6 So he made ready his chariot and took…
Rom 2:19-20 If you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—Rom 2:21 You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach…
1Sa 17:26 David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?” A story is told of a boy who arrived home from school with two…
Gen 37:28 Then Midianites traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt. Joseph’s brother hated him for his dreams. They looked for an opportune moment to get rid of him….