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I feel my heart hardening, Yet this time I’m too hurt to let it stop. You are to seek Me in faith, not worry. You are to adore Me in joy, not despair. Oh Lord, do you really see my suffering? Do you really hear my cry? Do you really understand? Yes, you will deliver. When His word seems like fairy tales of old, And when you’re seemingly condemned for being born; Then

Under the Old Testament – still in force when Jesus uttered the words – adultery incurred the death penalty (Note how even the words duty, loyalty, and stability seem old-fashioned.) However, our Lord revealed in the Old Testament that, at least in some instances, this could be highly Let’s not forget that God allowed divorce in the Old Testament because of people’s “hard hearts.” Or is Old Testament practice irrelevant, since the person in still physically alive?

It costs too much to become a Christian Offer me an ice cream for $500 and I’d refuse. It costs too much. I, too, balk at it, but it is the plain teaching of Jesus that your need is desperate. It is no use thinking, ‘I’ll enjoy my sin for as long as I can and when I’m old I will say I’m sorry. Do you really think you could fool God?

Jesus would reject it too. Moreover, it sounds like hype – just too good to be believable. This is to be expected. Nevertheless, it still sounds too good to be true. The ultimate security of knowing you are forever loved and that nothing – not even death - can rob you empowering you to achieve.

As I grew older I drifted away from God. I was there, too. Jesus was silently walking past all these people. It has accelerated my dealing with my sins, too. God bless you all! You Need More: If you want a rest from reading, now is a good time. If you worry that you are in spiritual danger, however, you will need to return to these webpages whenever

associated with unanswered prayer, the principle of unavoidable judgment achieving good extends beyond Old We cannot even grasp at straws by trying to argue that one set of divine responses was under the Old In fact, when it comes to unanswered prayer, I have found no differences between New and Old Testament The Spirit’s anointing is now available to all, declared Peter, while quoting the Old Testament as proof of the New Testament will confirm that what it reveals about unanswered prayer is identical to our Old

Relative to the all-knowing Lord, we are as short-sighted as King Midas, who discovered too late that And too often we confuse a good life with a soft life. Too often virtue slips in our priorities. We call God’s morality old-fashioned and suddenly it’s old-fashioned not to know the latest AIDS statistics Though we are too blinded by our own mud to have a hope of seeing ourselves as we really are, if we could If God wanted slaves he could in an instant create too many to cram on to every planet in the universe

Deny Yourself, Take up Your Cross Daily, and Follow Me My goal is to provide fresh thoughts on an age-old , including being crucified with Christ, losing your life, and putting to death, or mortifying, the old Now let me pose a question: what if your five-year-old asked for a deadly snake to play with? I’d like us to examine often groundlessly makes our flesh wince, even though it occurs often in the Old Look at what pride did to this godly king: 2 Chronicles 26:3-5, 8, 16 Uzziah was sixteen years old when

Your old guilt-ridden self is dead and buried. The old has passed away. The Old You Died With Christ –  Galatians 2:20   So the old you, the person who had reason to feel dirty The old you, the person who needed forgiveness, no longer exists.   Even to your old age and gray hairs . . . I am he who will sustain you.

Though this subject seems bizarre, reports are too numerous and the implications too profound to be ignored a person will almost inevitably produce quite different music to someone who believes in ‘the good old These claims – too numerous too innumerate here – often originate from people whose extensive familiarity Orphaned when only three days old, Grace Murphy had no recollection of her mother’s likeness, yet she Indeed, she regarded it as too sacred to speak about.

One of the divine purposes of the Old Testament is to provide immense historical proof of how weak God And the original Christian, too, is likely to be so blind-drunk on the emotional high as to be unable Since the Bible insists you have little chance if you choose ungodly people as close friends, you must When 2 Corinthians 6:14 says, ‘Do not be yoked together with unbelievers,’ Paul had in mind an Old Testament Interestingly, in Old Testament thinking, an ox is a clean animal (able to be used in the service of

There is nothing too hard for him or is beyond his ability to forgive. “forgetting what is behind,” declaring that he “is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come Then when God put his finger on a situation that I revisited, I started my old thing of turning away. supposed, so please don’t be disturbed by the way it starts off: All of a sudden I was about two years old I checked with my mother, who told me that when I was 18 months old I was in danger of losing my hearing