Exodus 13:18 So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea. The Bible is packed with the mysteries of God. He works in mysterious ways and if our mind is far away from Him we will never understand His ways. It is impossible to understand God’s mind and unpack...
Category: Devotional
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02 December 2023 – Hurts, Burns & Wounds – Part 7
Psalm 147:3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Overwhelming grief, disappointment or disillusion can cause emotional and mental agony and break the heart. Unbearable distress causes depression. Depression can penetrate a person in layers. The first level is when it affects the emotions. Emotional pain affects the moods and feelings. Emotional pain is expressed...
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01 December 2023 – Hurts, Burns & Wounds – Part 6
1 Samuel 26:9 David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless? The true test of forgiveness is when our adversary is vulnerable and we choose to bless and not hurt or harm them. We have forgiven the evil doer when we get a chance...
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30 November 2023 – Hurts, Burns & Wounds – Part 5
Psalm 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice. Broken bones are like broken relationships. When a bone breaks the area becomes inflamed, swollen, red and painful sending signals to the body to stop using it. Blood rushes to the broken bone and forms a protective blood...
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29 November 2023 – Hurts, Burns & Wounds – Part 4
Isaiah 1:5b Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. Head injury can cause loss of coordination, judgement, unsteady walking, dizziness, slurred speech, chronic headaches, indigestion, vomiting or nausea. Traumatic brain injury can cause changes to thinking, memory, language, motor skills and visions. Rebellion has the same effect...
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28 November 2023 – Hurts, Burns & Wounds – Part 3
Genesis 29:32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.” Rejection leaves third-degree burns in the soul. First-degree burns affect only the outer skin leaving red non-blistered skin. Second-degree burns cause...
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27 November 2023 – Hurts, Burns & Wounds – Part 2
Proverbs 19:11 “Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.” Offence is like a broken arm. It must be held in place, on a plaster cast, to be healed. If a fracture is left untreated, the bone may heal in an incorrect position, which can lead to...
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26 November 2023 – Hurts, Burns & Wounds – Part 1
Psalm 55:12-13 For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. There are different levels of hurts and wounds. Physical pain...
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25 November 2023 – Virtues, Values and Visions – Part 7
Numbers 13:1-2b The Lord said to Moses, “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. Visions are picture-images and peeks into God’s promises for you and me. Visions form images in our brain that imprint as portraits in the mind. Visions are not hallucinations or daydreaming. They...
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24 November 2023 – Virtues, Values and Visions – Part 6
Genesis 50: 7b-8 Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream. In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. Dreams and visions are warnings, counsels and directions. Not all dreams...