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Psalm 106 verse 13 (NIV)  But they soon forgot what he had done    and did not wait for his plan to unfold. I’d like to think that I don’t easily forget all that God has done for me. It’s all by His grace and Christ’s gift and I am indeed eternally grateful.  However I…

2 Corinthians chapter 8 verse 18 (NIV)  And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his service to the gospel.  Paul tells the Corinthians church that Titus is being sent to them along with two others who are unnamed. The person being described in this verse…

Isaiah chapter 8 verses 12-13 (NIV)   “Do not call conspiracy    everything this people calls a conspiracy;    do not fear what they fear,    and do not dread it. The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,    he is the one you are to fear,    he is the…

2 Corinthians chapter 7 verses 9-12 (NIV)  yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret,…

Psalm 105 verses 17-19 NIV)  and he sent a man before them—    Joseph, sold as a slave.  They bruised his feet with shackles,    his neck was put in irons, till what he foretold came to pass,    till the word of the LORD proved him true. When God makes us a promise, we…

2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 (NIV)  God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Ever since I was a young Christian, I have always thought it was much harder for a “good” person to accept that they too have…

2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 7 (NIV)  For we live by faith, not by sight.  This is a very familiar verse, yet it is the direct opposite to the maxim followed by many people. A familiar saying that confirms that is the one that says, “seeing is believing.” Even the late Queen Elizabeth the second…

Psalm 104 verse 34 (NIV)  May my meditation be pleasing to him,    as I rejoice in the LORD. One verse but such a timely reminder for those, like me, whose mind can so easily go off at a tangent. It’s also a reminder that when we are tempted to dwell on things that are…

2 Chronicles chapter 35 verses 21-25 (NIV)  But Necho sent messengers to him, saying, “What quarrel is there, king of Judah, between you and me? It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who…

2 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 2 – 3 (NIV)  You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but…