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October 3,2022
A Time to Tear Down Key Verse to Read and Treasure A time to tear down (Ecclesiastes 3:3, ESV) For Insight There is some tearing down that can be constructive and fruitful. We spent the summer months tearing down weeds that had made their way up the fence behind our house. We couldn’t just pull…
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October 1, 2022
A Time for Healing Key Verse to Read and Treasure And a time for healing (Ecclesiastes 3:3, ESV) For Insight One of my most favorite songs by singer, songwriter Richard Smallwood is called “Healing” and includes these lyrics; There’s healing for your sorrow, healing for your pain Healing for spirit There’s shelter from the rain…
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September 30, 2022
It’s What the Enemy Does! Key Verse to Read and Treasure A Time to kill (Ecclesiastes 3:3, ESV) For Insight We’ve considered how God has ordained kings to war, how God himself kills for righteousness’s sake anything that is evil and that would destroy our future in heaven. Let’s also consider the work and activity…
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September 29, 2022
By the Command of God? Key Verse to Read and Treasure A Time to kill (Ecclesiastes 3:3, ESV) For Insight Could there be a time for killing? Could Solomon have gotten this part wrong? Does killing make God a bad or uncaring God? If God allows or ordains killing, then what does this mean for…
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September 28, 2022
Planting and Plucking Up Key Verse to Read and Treasure A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted (Ecclesiastes 3:2, ESV) For Insight I’m preparing the soil on the west side of our home so I can transplant two rose bushes that are currently on the east side of…
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September 27, 2022
Life and Death Are Not Opposites Key Verse to Read and Treasure A time to be born and a time to die (Ecclesiastes 3:2, ESV) For Insight Two of the most sobering occasions I have been part of have involved birth and dying. Each have reminded me of God’s sovereignty over our coming in and…
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September 26, 2022
Book Ends Key Verse to Read and Treasure A time to be born and a time to die. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, ESV) For Insight You might have a set or two of them yourself. Bookends. Those things that hold your books or other items in place, supporting them, keeping them from spilling over. Some bookends are…
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September 24/25, 2022
At the Right Time Key Verse to Read and Treasure For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, ESV) For Insight We already know what a prolific writer King Solomon was by reading the Book of Proverbs, but he outdoes himself with the poem he wrote in…
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September 23, 2022
God Gives Wisdom without Measure Key Verse to Read and Treasure And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 1:13, ESV) For Insight In I Kings we see Solomon making a sacrifice to God. Later, God visited him in a dream and asked…
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September 22, 2022
The Power of Awareness Key Verse to Read and Treasure A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work…to the man who pleases God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness (Ecclesiastes 2:24, 26, NIV) For Insight Once again, my husband is training people how to identify their spiritual…
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Day 90: March 31, 2023
A Holy Partnership Key Verse to Read and Treasure Jesus went up to a mountain, called those whom he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve whom he called apostles. They were to accompany him and to be sent out by him to spread the Good News. They also had the authority to…
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Day 89: March 30, 2023
Becoming Key Verse to Read and Treasure And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6, ESV) For Insight When I was growing up there were three people I loved to hang out with. They were…
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Day 88: March 29, 2023
God Will Refresh Your Weary Soul Key Verse to Read and Treasure I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. (Jeremiah 31:25, NIV) For Insight Israel was stubborn. They not only were disobedient toward God, but they also refused to believe in God’s promises for them. God graciously let Jeremiah repeat his promises of…
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Day 87: March 28, 2023
Enjoying Fellowship with God Key Verse to Read and Treasure That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which…
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Day 86: March 27, 2023
Stay with Him Key Verse to Read and Treasure Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears…
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Day 85: March 26, 2023
Day 85: Keep the Monsters Out Key Verse to Read and TreasureThey were beginning to argue among themselves about who would be the greatest among them. Jesus told them, “In this world the king and great men lord it over their people, yet the yare called ‘friends of the people.’ But among you it will…
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Day 84: March 25, 2023
Even Captivity Can be Fruitful Key Verse to Read and Treasure: Build houses and live in them. Settle in the land. Plant gardens and eat the food you grow. Get married and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons, and let your daughters be married. Do this so that they also may have…
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Day 83: March 24, 2023
Meditating: The Key to Success and Prosperity Key Verse to Read and Treasure Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give…
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Day 82: March 22, 2023
Reshaped for Integrity Key Verse to Read and Treasure When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. (Luke 19:5-6, NIV) For Insight Life in the Vine does amazing…