Zechariah 4:10 Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin. Glorious endings always have small beginnings. The fear of failure has stopped people from putting their hands to the plough. Myles Munroe rightly said, “The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there...
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15 July 2021 – Back-story – Part 7
Hebrews 10:39 We do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. When the trailer of a movie illustrates the back-story as a “true-story” of a sinking ship, our expectancy of the film changes. The characters become real and an automatic emotional connection to...
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14 July 2021 – Back-story – Part 6
Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. Poppies are a worldwide ideogram to commemorate the brave soldiers and veterans of war. The back-story of the historical symbol of the “red headed poppies,” represents the blood of the...
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13 July 2021 – Back-story – Part 5
Matthew 23:26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. Anthropologists have discovered ancient human remains with grooves worn in between the teeth, suggesting the regular use of floss and toothpicks. It’s widely accepted that horse hair was used as the first type of...
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12 July 2021 – Back-Story – Part 4
1 John 4 19 We love because He first loved us. Colonel Sanders, a seventh grade dropout was a rough and tough cookie. He faked his age at 16 and joined the US Army. He got fired three times from jobs and from law college for his freaky frenzy and bad temper. However, the resilient...
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11 July 2021 – Back-story – Part 3
John 9:2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”. Fanny Crosby (March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915) the blind American missionary, poet, lyricist, and composer wrote almost 8,000 hymns, some of which are the most cherished hymns in the Christian world even today. She...
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10 July 2021 – Back-story – Part 2
Deuteronomy 8:18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth. In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught Engineer, stumbled into an invention that has become an inevitable essential in the kitchen of every home. One day while working near the magnetrons (an electron tube for generating microwaves)...
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09 July 2021 – Back-story – Part 1
Hebrews 4:2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. The back-story of the cuddly teddy bear is very impressive. The teddy bear is named after U.S. President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. In 1902,...
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08 July 2021 – Secrets – Part 7
Daniel 2:22 “It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him. “There are two kinds of secrets, those we keep from others and we hide from ourselves” – Frank Warren; but there is a third kind of secret called “Godly whispers” stored...
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07 July 2021 – Secrets – Part 6
Joshua 7:1 the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things; Achan son of Karmi,… of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel. Hiding devoted things stirs the anger of God. Achan coveted the dedicated plunder, stole and hid a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred...