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Psalm 75 verses 1-2 (NIV)   We praise you, God,    we praise you, for your Name is near;   people tell of your wonderful deeds. You say, “I choose the appointed time;    it is I who judge with equity.” Here we read of people praising and worshiping God for all the good things He…

Acts chapter 13 verses 2-3 (NIV)  While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”  So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off. The Holy Spirit spoke…

Acts chapter 12 verses 5-7 (NIV)  So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord…

1 Kings chapter 2 verses 2-3 (NIV)  “I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, act like a man, and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law…

Acts chapter 10 verses 1-7 (NIV)  At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.  He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. One day at about three in the afternoon he had…

Acts chapter 9 verses 10-17 (NIV)  In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!”“Yes, Lord,” he answered. The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. In a vision…

2 Samuel chapter 21 verses 2-3 (NIV)   The king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.) David asked the…

Acts chapter 7 verse 51 (NIV)  “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!” James chapter 4 verse 7 (NIV)   Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. How sad that the religious leaders at the…

2 Samuel chapter 18 verses 12 – 13 (NIV)   But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king’s son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’ And if…

Acts chapter 6 verses 9-10 (NIV)  Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia —who began to argue with Stephen.  But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he…