Romans 5:3-4 We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. The crisis produces character. The fiery furnace of affliction refines our affections and the fire of suffering prepares us for success and significance. Persecution produces perseverance and patience. Patience is not developed by waiting. We...
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05 August 2024 – Fruits in the Furnace – Part 1
Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried and chosen you in the furnace of affliction. The furnace of trials and temptations develop the different facets of the fruit of the spirit. In fact, without the furnace experiences, our spiritual fruit will not be succulent and sweet. But the fruit...
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04 August 2024 – The Well – Part 7
John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ‘Welling Up’ means to come up and appear on the surface or come out from somewhere. The barometric pressure (air pressure in the atmosphere) causes...
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03 August 2024 – The Well – Part 6
John 4:6-7 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” Jesus who was exhausted from the journey sat down by Jacob’s well. Jesus...
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02 August 2024 – The Well – Part 5
Judges 15:18-20 Samson was now very thirsty, and he cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great victory by the strength of your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of these pagans?” So God caused water to gush out of a hollow in the ground at Lehi, and Samson...
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01 August 2024 – The Well – Part 4
Genesis 21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of springing water; and she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the child drink. Natural events that are caused without human intervention and that could not be prevented by reasonable foresight or precautionary measures are classified as “Acts of God”....
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31 July 2024 – The Well – Part 3
Numbers 21:16-17 From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.” Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing about it. Springs are underground waterbeds coming out or spouting out naturally. Water pressure underground causes the water...
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30 July 2024 – The Well – Part 2
Jeremiah 38:6 And they brought Jeremiah and they threw him into the well of Malkiah, son of the King, in the court of the house of prisoners, and they let Jeremiah down by ropes into the well, and there was no water in the well, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud. The...
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29 July 2024 – The Well – Part 1
Genesis 26:19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. Wells were the primary water source in ancient times to supply water for the household as well as their cultivation. The common wells of the town were also the place of social gathering where men and women congregated at...
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28 July 2024 – God and Me – Part 7
2 Samuel 24:24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” God and Me time builds an altar of sacrifice where we meet with Lord. It builds a God-Space for the Almighty to dwell in. This God-Space...