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07/28/2024 – Understand that you must not look upon the possession of joy and peace as being the absolutely necesary consequence of your being saved. A man may be in the lifeboat, but that lifeboat may be so tossed about that he may still feel himself exceedingly ill, and think himself to be still in peril. It is not his sense of safety that makes him safe; he is safe because he is in the lifeboat, whether he is sensible of this or not. Understand then that joy and peace are not infallible or indispensibly evidences of safety, and that they certainly are not unchanging evidences. The brightest Christians lose their joy, and some of those that stand well in the things of God, and concerning whom you would entertain no doubt , entertain a great many suspicians, however about themselves. Joy and peace are the element of a Christian, but he is sometimes out of his element: joy and peace are his usual states, but there are times when, with fightings within and wars without, his joy departs, and his peace is broken. The leaves on the tree prove that the tree is alive, but the absence of leaves will not prove that the tree is dead.” Charles Spurgeon


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Soli Deo Gloria!

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7/19/2024 – Day 047 – Job – Chapters 13 -14 // “My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men shall live, and all men would be equally brave.” Stonewall Jackson (see 14:5)


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Prior cycle posts for this reading day: 07/17/2020 – Verse 14:10 // 04/15/22 – Verse 13:15 – John Gill commentary and “The Evidence Study Bible” commentary.

Soli Deo Gloria!

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07/17/2024 – Day 045 – Judges – Chapters 7 – 11- Make no mistake: “Our God reigns, forever He reigns!


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Prior cycle coverage : See 07/15/2020 – Tragic life lessons: 11:39 – Jephthat sacrificing his daughter from a silly vow he had made.

Last week – Day 038 – …

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07/15/2024 – “God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!”  Charles Spurgeon


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Soli Deo Gloria!

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07/14/2024 – “It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.”  Gandhi / Romans 1: 18 – 23 and questioning comment attached.


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“For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, since what can be known about God is evident …

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07/12/2024 – “If God were small enough to be understood. He would not be big enough to be worshipped.” Evelyn Underhill (1875 – 1941)


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Soli Deo Gloria!

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06/21/2024 – “It is a common temptation of satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone, as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. The truth is that in order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer is to continue praying. The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.” George Mueller / bio attached – amazing story!


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https://www.georgemuller.org/devotional/the-life-of-george-muller

Soli Deo Gloria!

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06/20/2024 – “God’s love for you, His mercy and forgiveness have no end, no limit, and no running out. His mercies are new every morning, because it’s a fountain.”


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God’s Love is not a Bucket

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Zechariah 13:1 says, ‘In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem …

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06/19/2024 – “The world says you can’t confront people with Jesus, you’ll run them off. Where are you going to run them to? Hell number 2?” Darrell Robinson


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My vision: Someone coming up to me in heaven and proclaiming: “I know you, you are the messenger that invited me here!” Well, heaven is perfect but …

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06/18/2024 – Day 017 – Joshua 11 – 15 / Post 2 of 2 – “… I can understand why you are concerned about the metaphor of a war. However, there is nothing metaphoric about the spiritual battle in which we find ourselves.”


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I have a few footnote commentaries to verses in our reading from two different Bibles:

(*1). The Apologetics Study Bible – ISBN 978-1-58640-024-8

(*2). The Evidence Bible – NKJV – ISBN …

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