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“And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord.” (Luke 1:45) “Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told. (Acts 27:25) “yet, with respect to the promise of God,…

Areas to learn to bypass 1. Bypass your weaknesses “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted…

Bypass the “good” flesh One of the clearest statements in the Bible regarding bypassing the good flesh is Paul’s utterance in Philippians 3:3-7: 3 “For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, though I also might have confidence in the flesh.…

[In August of 1869, J. Hudson Taylor of the China Inland Mission read the book Christ is All: The Gospel of the Pentateuch by Henry Law, and left it in Hang-chow. There God was illumining Taylor’s friend and coworker, John McCarthy about the reality and implications of “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col.…

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.” He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it” (Luke11:27,28, NIV). .It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges…

(A Conspicuous Perspective) In the last week there has been a lot of attention given to recent political and Supreme Court decisions in the United States. Supporters and protestors conspicuously rally around flags that symbolize their values.[1] This is the Christian Flag and it symbolizes values that are central to me. The Christian Flag was…

“If any man will come after Me [Christ Jesus], let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me” (Luke 9. 23). I think often we accept the cross in theory, but when it comes to practice, we either do not recognize it for what it is, or we recognize it and…

“He has given us rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.”-John Bunyan. . What have You done for me, O mighty Friend, Who loves to the end! Reveal Yourself, that I may now behold Your love unknown, untold, Bearing the curse, and made a curse for me, That blessed and made a blessing…

“But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive … And so it is written,…

[The life of faith] is faith in the divine promises, for the comfort of the future. The person in Christ is an individual of strong and precious anticipations. Whatever may be his present condition of blessing and comfort, he looks constantly forward for far better things to come, than he now enjoys. But all his…