Acts 14:9-10 He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk. “Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in...
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13 July 2023 – Expectations – Part 5
1 Samuel 17:38-39 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because...
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12 July 2023 – Expectations – Part 4
Judges 6:13 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given...
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11 July 2023 – Expectations – Part 3
Deuteronomy 8:17-18 ‘You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.” The Lord God expects us to ‘remember Him’ in all our promotions and progressions. Remember that it is the Lord God who gives...
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10 July 2023 – Expectations – Part 2
1 Samuel 6:14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might, wearing a priestly garment. “Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectations” – Andrew Murray. Statistics prove that the attention span of goldfish is longer than that of a human. The average human attention span is only 8.25 seconds but the...
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09 July 2023 – Expectations – Part 1
Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. ‘Expectation’ is an assumption, presumption or presupposition that something will happen. It is a strong belief about an outcome or a result....
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08 July 2023 – The Secret of Secrecy – 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.” The secret things are hidden in the secret place of the most High God. Humanity has an unquenchable thirst for eternity. God has “set eternity in the human heart.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)....
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07 July 2023 – The Secret of Secrecy – Part 6
Psalm 16:11b ..In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. ‘Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God’ – Sam Storms. ‘The secret of joy’ is in the presence of the Lord. CS Lewis said, ‘Happiness depends on ‘happenings” (circumstances), but JOY comes straight from...
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06 July 2023 – The Secret of Secrecy – Part 5
2 Corinthians 9:10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. ‘Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant’ – Robert Louis Stevenson Deeds are seeds...
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05 July 2023 – The Secret of Secrecy – Part 4
Matthew 8:17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. “God is waiting for you in the secret place” _ Jentezen Franklin Jesus did not use the excerpts in Matthew 8:17 as a negative undertone; it was a clip-on...