Problems Aren’t Always Punishment

The Word: …his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him (John 9:2-3) Prayerful Contemplation: Murphy’s law states that everything that can go...

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Affliction: An Introduction

From Searchlight, with Pastor Jon Courson: The Word: Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth. And David abodein the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a...

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Weekend Contemplation #11

Delayed. From Streams in the Desert with Mrs. Charles Cowman: The Word: Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs; . . . they shall afflict them four hundred years; . . . and afterward they shall come out with great substance (Gen. 15:12-14). An assured part of God’s pledged blessing to...

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Great Faithfulness

From “A Woman’s Walk” by Margaret D. Mitchell. It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness (Lamentations 3:22-23). The Israelites understood that God is always faithful to His word.  Even amid judgment, they...

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YABS-7

Wisdom from Adrian Rogers: Run the Race with Endurance. “Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Patience that is used here in Hebrews 12:1 doesn’t...

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