The sword of His mouth

To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. Rev 2:12 We are looking at the messages that Jesus sent to seven Churches of the Roman Province of Asia as recorded in the book of Revelat
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Sure as anything!

10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will

How to be blessed

1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a

More Precious Than Gold

9 The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous. 10 They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb. 11 By them your
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Guard your heart

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 In the New Testament we read that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. According to Proverbs, it’s apparently more than just our words that come
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It is Written!

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7 Carefully read Matthew 4:1-11, the story of the temptation of Jesus. Yesterday we saw Adam and Eve being tempted where the devil starts off “did God really say�
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Seeds of doubt

1 Now the snake was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the garden”?’…4 ‘You will not certainly die,’ the snake said to the wo

Stoke the fire

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. John 4:23 The whole thinking behind the name of this devotional column, Stoke t
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The Bible – Useful to train

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Tim 3:16-17 Yesterday, I was at my children’s schoo

The Bible – Our guide

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Psalms 119:105 This is the longest chapter of the entire Bible and each of the 176 verses is a short, power-packed nugget about the word of God. What verse 105 basically teaches us is that the B
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