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The Prerequisite for Peace
Isaiah 26:3, ESV You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Philippians 4:6-8, ESV do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever i
These are But the Outskirts of His Ways
Job 26:14, ESV (Job speaking) “Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” Psalm 8:3-4, ESV When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? John 21:25, NIV Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written do
We Don’t Resign Ourselves to God's Plan, We Rest in It
Proverbs 3:6, NIV in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Jeremiah 29:11, NLT For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Isaiah 55:8-9, ESV For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
When We’re Afraid to Hope Again
Exodus 6:6-9, ESV Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land that I swore to
A "Not Yet" is Not a "Won’t"
Exodus 3:9-10, ESV And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” Exodus 5:1-2, 6-9, ESV Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” But Pharaoh said, “Who is the
The Great Reversal
Esther 7:10a, NIV So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Esther 8:11, NIV The king’s edict granted the Jews in every city the right to assemble and protect themselves; to destroy, kill and annihilate the armed men of any nationality or province who might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder the property of their enemies. Esther 9:1-2, NIV On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king w


