Tag: Suffering
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Day 116: April 26, 2023
You are a Beautiful Green Leaf on the Vine Key Verse to Read and Treasure Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf. (Proverbs 11:28, ESV) For Insight It is a story we know well. How the serpent approached Eve in the Garden of Eden and convinced…
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Day 113: April 23, 2023
Suffering Pales in the Light of God’s Goodness and Glory Key Verse to Read and Treasure For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. (Romans 8:18, ESV) For Insight There’s a moment when we’re looking back and realize somehow,…
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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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November 25, 2022
When Sin Causes Suffering Key Verse to Read and Treasure For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil—I Peter 3:17 (ESV) For Insight Forty years wandering in the desert. An entire generation that would not live to see the promised land. Suffering, trials, enemy…
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God is the Secret to Contentment
Key Vere to Read and Treasure For I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance, and need—Philippians 4:11-12 (ESV) For Insight There are sufferings and…
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November 12/13, 2022
Suffering Doesn’t Have to be Anybody’s Fault Key Verse to Read and Treasure As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man of his parents, that he was born blind?” Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that…
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November 10, 2022
Rest Assured, You’re Not Invisible to God Key Verses to Read and Treasure Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings and I have come down to deliver them—Exodus 3:7-8 (ESV) For Insight…
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November 7, 2022
Your Response to Suffering and Trials Can Inspire Others Key Verse to Read and Treasure Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring—2 Thessalonians 1:4 For Insight What a word! What a beautiful report to…
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November 5/6, 2022
Don’t Be Surprised to Suffer Key Verse to Read and Treasure Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you—I Peter 4:12 For Insight What a word Peter gave here. One of those reminders that jostle us back into…
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November 3, 2022
Fix Your Eyes on Christ Key Verse to Read and Treasure Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God—Hebrews 12:2-3 For Insight How do we make…
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