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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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...
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06 July 2021 – Secrets – Part 5
Joshua 2:4 But the woman (Rahab) had taken the two men and hidden them. Joshua sent two of his men who were filled with Godly vision and passion on the very important mission to spy the city of Jericho. The people of Jericho were already trembling with terror about the half a million Israelites who...
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05 July 2021 – Secrets – Part 4
Luke 2:19 “But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Mary hid the prophecies about Jesus from the angels and prophets in her heart. There were two saintly prophets Simeon and Anna who prophesied about the miracle baby Jesus when He was taken into the to be consecrated. Mary and Joseph...
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04 July 2021 – Secrets – Part 3
Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. The hidden secrets that we are sitting on are the hamstrings of righteous living. Before Jacob fled with his family and flocked back to his father’s land, Rachel, Jacob’s wife, stole the family idols...
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03 July 2021 – Secrets – Part 2
1 Samuel 18:9 And Saul was jealous and did not trust David from that day on. The next day an ugly mood was sent by God to afflict Saul, who became quite beside himself, raving (1 Samuel 18:10 MSG). Jealousy will sever the hamstring of relationships. Envy is like gangrene. Gangrene is a localised death...