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  1. DustyRhodes

    I Will Go To The Altar Of God ( Psalm:43 )

    To God My Exceeding Joy Oh God My God, What a wonderful way to greet the Lord with Love. We through all worthless things away and give our life up with total surrender. There should never be a stumbling block between us and the Lord. Often in scripture He reminds us not to be afraid. Jesus...
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    In The Morning Lord You Hear My Voice ( Psalm:5 )

    In The Morning I Lay My Requests Before You And Wait Expectantly, I don't know if there is any significance to doing that in the morning; perhaps it was typical for the psalmist. Any time of the day is a good time for prayer. Personally I do it first thing in the morning before my mind has...
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    We Do Not Lose Heart, Though Outwardly We Are Wasting Away ( 2Cor.4 )

    Though Inwardly We Are Renewed Day By Day, So our bodies will one day expire, but the Spirit in us will live on forever. Many times scripture reassures us that we will have everlasting life. Though the body will sin, God's redemption will bring us back to Him but as always this is a...
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    They Asked Each Other; Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us ( Luke:24)

    While He Talked With Us On The Road, Were not our hearts burning withing us, what a beautiful way to describe the love that apostles had for Jesus. It is almost necessary to speak in metaphors when trying to describe the love of God. Those who don't know Him think you're crazy and those that...
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    You Will Seek Me And Find Me ( Jeremiah: 29 )

    When You Seek Me With All Your Heart, This is what the Lord spoke to the ones who were in exile for many years. So in a way when we choose God, we choose life. We are no longer slaves to those who would try to confine us to their way of life or structure. It is God that is all we will need...
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    Whoever Claims To Live In Jesus ( 1john:2 )

    Must Live As Jesus Lived, As we come to Him, we must also stay in Him. That means we can't just read the written lines and then carry on with life as we always did. That means we need a radical change and allow the power of those words infiltrate every beat of our hearts. Jesus has to be...
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    Satisfy Us In The Morning With Your Unfailing Love ( Psalm:90 )

    So We May Rejoice And Be Glad Always, So as the psalmist first points to the Lord how angry He was at His people, they are now beginning to feel His love. I believe we have our dry seasons and our fertile ones. For the most part we really accept and rejoice in the Lord but then there are...
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    He Reached Down From Heaven And Took Hold Of Me ( Psalm:18 )

    He Drew Me Out Of Deep Waters He Rescued My From My Enemy, What a great surrender to God, after having been saved from drowning, we become grateful to Him. And once He has us in His arms, we want to do all we can for Him. There is never an end to the graces He pours out on us. But at the same...
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    Do Nothing Out Of Selfish Ambition Or Vain Conceit ( Phil.2 )

    Rather In Humility Value Others Above Yourself, Life is so beautiful when we can do something for someone else. For example, Jesus died on the cross not for His own ego, not for His own glory but; to save the world. He paid the ultimate price so that the rest of us could live together. So we...
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    I Will Never Forget You My People ( Iaiah:49 )

    Briefly the image has come to me, smiles. But I try to stay away from imagery when it comes to scripture and lean rather on the supernatural world, it takes me more to invisible a spiritual place. Thanks so much for your comments, I appreciate them a lot.
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    I Will Never Forget You My People ( Iaiah:49 )

    I Have Carved You In The Palms Of My Hands, The Lord is constantly telling us to trust Him because He will never forsake us. In prayer it is important to really listen to God, hear His promises and know and trust Him in all things. He is telling us that He wants us to be happy and to...
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    The Message Of The Cross Is Foolishness For Those Who Are Perishing ( 1Cor.1 )

    To Us Who Are Being Saved It Is The Power Of God. The majority of that chapter helps us to be really close to God. Paul has a paragraph of many who would want to argue and create derision amongst believers. It seems some were there just to argue Christ on the cross. I think that likely some...
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    Though The Mountains May Fall And Hills Turn To Dust ( Isaiah:54 )

    Yet The Love Of The Lord Will Stand, There are so many ways in scripture where God tells us how much He loves us and how He will never forget us. Little by little the power of those words of His need to seep into our consciousness. They are words of truth that God tries to impress upon us by...
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    Blessed Are You When People Insult And Persecute You ( Matt:5 )

    Rejoice And Be Glad Great Is Your Reward In Heaven, Prophets and even Jesus was persecuted so we shall be Christ's warriors and deliver His message despite those who might want to insult you because of Christ's righteousness. Typically people such as those do the things they do out of...
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    You Are My God And I Will Praise You ( Psalm:118 )

    In a sense we leave this physical world and enter the Spiritual realm. It is a glorious place and one where when we find comfort it, we never want to leave.
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    You Are My God And I Will Praise You ( Psalm:118 )

    You Are My God And I Exalt You, Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever. The Psalm is an encouragement for us to be with Him in the morning and the night and everything in between. There came a time in my life when almost all of my mental thought was God. Gone were...
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    The Lord Is Close To The Broken Hearted ( Psalm:34 )

    He Saves Those Who Are Crushed In Spirit, No matter how deep is the hole we have dug, God in His glorious mercy sets us free. Our first inclination when our life falls into that hole is that we give up. We abandon God and then we even want to blame Him for our woes. We need to take Job as an...
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    Our Heavenly Dwelling ( 2Cor.5 )

    Those Who Are In Christ Become A New Creation, We no longer live in the flesh because the old has passed away and we live a new life. All that we are and all that we do becomes our glory to God. Through reconciliation we are no longer living in fear of death. Christ crucified saved us from...
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    Lord I Know You Are Near ( Psalm:41 )

    You Are Always With Me, To You I will cling with a relentless grasp for without You I have nothing. Day by day you pour out your blessings upon a waiting world. May it be that all the world will cling to you one day. In the busy and often confusing world, stumble and wander in the dark...