Posted on April 8, 2008 by jonmfeusse
Grace—That Stuff’s Amazing!!!! So Throw Out Your Pride and Have Some!!!
Jas 4:6-8 “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by jonmfeusse
Recently while doing a Bible study with the teen guys we came upon a number of verses that spoke of inheritance. (Gal 5: 19-21; Ephesians 5:5-6; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11) We decided to find out what the word or what the passages themselves actually mean in respect to inheritance. Let’s examine these passages now:
Eph 5:5-6 “For [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by jonmfeusse
I’m still reading Psalm 63 with my devotions in the morning. And I have a few more thoughts on verse 1. Maybe tomorrow I will start verse 2, but today we shall look again at verse one.
“O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee.” Or I will diligently seek thee, as for [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by jonmfeusse
“My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.”
Read what Matthew Henry’s Commentary says about Psalm 63:1-2 -
Early will I seek thee. The true Christian devotes to God the morning hour. He opens the eyes of his understanding with those of his body, and [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by jonmfeusse
“O God, thou art my God; early will I seek Thee…”
The word “early” has reference to the early dawn, or the morning. The proper idea would be that of seeking God in the morning, or the early dawn; that is, as the first thing in the day. David was seeking God as the first thing [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by jonmfeusse
“O God, thou art my God.”
This psalm was written by David while he was in the wilderness of Judah. The first part of verse one is interesting because the phrase “O God, thou art my God” uses two different names of God in the original languages. The first one ( ‘Elohiym) is the plural name for God [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 by jonmfeusse
“When I grow up…”
Children as well as teens are often asked the age old question of “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I can remember when I was about four years old, I loved to hum. I constantly went around humming. It drove my parent’s nuts. I hummed everywhere I went; [...]
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