Mark 1:40-42 Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You are willing, You can make me clean”. Then Jesus moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him and said to him, “ I am willing; be cleansed.” As soon as He had spoken,…
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LUKE 8:11 says: “This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God’s word. MARK 4:26 says: Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. To help us understand how God’s Word and His kingdom operate, Jesus used a seed. And normally, seed takes a…
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Exodus 13: And all the first born of man among your sons you shall redeem. So it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying “what is this” that you shall say to him “By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out to the house of bondage. The…
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Devotion by Reena Thomas Psalms 130: 3-4 -If You LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who would stand? But there is forgiveness with You that You may be feared. The one word which had the maximum impact on me accepting Jesus was ‘forgiveness’. I grew up in Chennai and I have heard people preach and share…
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Exodus 16:20 “Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them felt part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.” To gather Manna, God had deliberately placed certain rules to test the Israelites, to see whether they would walk in His law or not (vs.4).…
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Exodus 32:9 “And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people” An arrogant or a stubborn person is referred to as “stiff-necked”. In Hebrew, ‘kasha oreph’ is translated as stiff-necked. Kasha means severe, stubborn or difficult & oreph means neck and also ‘to turn back’. Kasha…
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Exodus 20:18 “Now all the people witnessed the thundering, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off”. This was immediately after the utterance of the Ten Commandments at Mt.Sinai. The Israelites were able to see the mountain up in smoke and…
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Rom 9:15: “For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” The parable of the workers in the vineyard throws more light on the above verse (Matt 20:1-16). Jesus spoke this parable after Peter asked “See, we have…
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Judges 7:2 “And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me saying ‘My own hand has saved me’”. Does God share His glory with someone?? No and Yes. He doesn’t share His…
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This is a beautiful story that starts with unimaginable pain and ends with unimaginable glory. Let’s picture for a moment Joseph growing up as a little boy, maybe around 8 years old. His mother Rachel was very, very beautiful, and his father was madly in love with her. What a wonderful world this was… as…
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