Empowering Word
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Created on Sunday, 04 September 2022Read more...Isaiah 25:1 NLT Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago. Chapters 25-27 of Isaiah are songs of praise to God from the Israelites. And yet they can also be songs of praise from those of us who have become God’s children through faith i...
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Created on Friday, 12 August 2022Read more...John 13:34-35 NKJV “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” When Jesus tells His disciples that He is giving them a “new” command to love, He is saying so because the love they are to have now for each oth...
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Created on Thursday, 30 June 2022Read more...Matthew 16:25 AMP For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it , but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it . In the verse, Jesus is preparing His disciples for true discipleship. In verse 25 He is explaining that when ones whole entire goal in life is to stay free from any discomfort, pain, or loneliness, they are only livi...
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Created on Monday, 13 June 2022Read more...Colossians 3:13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Well, this just goes against everything the world teaches doesn’t it? The mentality in our culture says, “Don’t get mad, get even,” but God teaches the complete opposite, which if you have known the Lord...
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Created on Thursday, 12 May 2022Read more...Proverbs 31:30 NLT Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. A woman’s true beauty comes from within. For it is what is in her heart that God cares about (1 Samuel 16:7, Proverbs 21:2). This is not to say that a woman shouldn’t wear stylish clothing, or make-up; but that should not be wha...
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Created on Friday, 08 April 2022Read more...Philippians 4:12-13 (NIV) I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Paul is letting the church at Philippi know that ev...
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Created on Monday, 21 March 2022Read more...Romans 3:21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. The righteousness given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. Our righteousness can be obtained through no other way than faith in Christ Jesus. When we truly believe in Jesus we place our faith and ...
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Created on Tuesday, 01 March 2022Read more...1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. In these verses, John is telling the believers to help one another when one is in need. Reinforcing the fact that Christians are to behave as family to each other. We are not called to just give money to those in need, but our time. Every body ...
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Created on Saturday, 22 January 2022Read more...Joshua 1:14-15 NIV “You are to help your brothers until the Lord gives them rest as He has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the Lord your God is giving them. After that you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you east of the Jordan toward sunrise.” Joshua is ins...
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Created on Saturday, 08 January 2022Read more...Mark 9:23 “If you can?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes. ”Jesus was asked by a father of a boy to help the child who had been possessed by a demon for many years. This father was at his wits end and came to Jesus as a last resort for any kind of help He could give. Jesus’ response to him was, “everything is possi...
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Created on Sunday, 26 December 2021Read more...John 1:14 (NIV) The Word (Jesus) became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father full of grace and truth. It is pretty hard to contradict an eyewitness testimony and not just one eyewitness to Jesus’ life and birth, but several hundred. As John says in this ...
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Created on Saturday, 04 December 2021Read more...2 Peter 1:5-8 For this very reason make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection;; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, th...
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Created on Monday, 08 November 2021Read more...2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. Ephesians 2:4-5 Because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have be...
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Created on Tuesday, 12 October 2021Read more...Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12 provides such clear instruction throughout on how a child of God should live. In verse 12 we are told to “be joyful in hope” no matter what our circumstances are at any given time we can always be joyful and rejoice in the fact that our sins are forgiven...
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Created on Tuesday, 21 September 2021Read more...Psalm 139:23-24 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Even though David said this prayer thousands of years ago, it is still so beneficial and suitable for us today. It asks our Mighty God to thoroughly search and know our hear...
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Created on Saturday, 28 August 2021Read more...Galatians 5:13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather serve one another in love. The church at Galatia had problems with legalism. Even though Paul had taught them that they were no longer under the Old covenant laws, they had started to act as though they still were. Th...
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Created on Friday, 06 August 2021Read more...Ephesians 1:18 NIV I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people Paul is praying that the Christians at Ephesus will be sensitive to the revelations of God that they are privy to through the “eyes” of their he...
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Created on Saturday, 10 July 2021Read more...Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. When we read in God’s Word all the experiences of God’s people in the past and how they persevered for Him, it gives us hope. We know that we are no...
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Created on Monday, 07 June 2021Read more...Philippians 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. What peace and comfort this verse brings to the child of God. If you go on to read vs. 8, Paul is ...
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Created on Saturday, 29 May 2021Read more...Isaiah 40:31 But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint. What a glorious assurance we find in this verse! To those of us whose hope is built on the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore on His righteousness, we will have renewed ...