Devotional: Seeking and Finding God

 
Seeking and Finding God
    By Colin Smith
  
“I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.”  Mark 11:23 (NIV)
 
Do you ever wish you had more faith [...]

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Devotional: My Utmost – Mark 10:32

 
Verse
And as they followed, they were afraid.
— mr 10:32
 
Thought
At the beginning we were sure we knew all about Jesus Christ, it was a delight to sell all and to fling ourselves out in a hardihood of love; but now we are not quite so sure. Jesus is on in front and He looks strange: “Jesus [...]

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Readings of the Day: Numbers, Mark, Psalms, Proverbs

Numbers 15:17 – 16:40
Notable verse 15:30 “‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people.”
What strikes me about this verse is that I wouldn’t have lasted a day, at the most a week in the camp. I would have been stoned [...]

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Bible in a Year – Readings of the Day

Numbers 14:1 – 15:16
Notable 14:3 “Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them.”
Wow! God is really angry. None of us want to be in the room when mom gets angry much less God. Yet, here is Moses, not only in [...]

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Readings of the Day: Numbers, Mark, Psalms, Proverbs

Numbers 11:24 – 13:33
Notable Verse – Num 11:29 
But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
The first thing I wanted to write about was, were there still prophets and I realized that is “above my [...]

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Readings of the Day: Numbers, Mark, Psalms, Proverbs

Numbers 4:1 – 5:31
Notable Verse: Num 5:1  The LORD said to Moses,
This phrase comes up three times in the chapter. It seems rather strange, not for its awkwardness, but what can only be seen as its normality. We are used to considering the Bible as God’s spoken word, and Jesus being the Living Word that [...]

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Readings of the Day

Numbers 2:1 – 3:51
Notable Verses: Num 2:32  These are the Israelites, counted according to their families. All those in the camps, by their divisions, number 603,550.
Num 3:39  The total number of Levites counted at the LORD’s command by Moses and Aaron according to their clans, including every male a month old or more, was 22,000.
 
Mark [...]

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Readings of the Day

Leviticus 25:47 – 27:13
Notable Verse 26:44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, i I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and j break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
God has just spent since 26:14 telling the Israelites [...]

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Readings of the Day

Leviticus 22:17 – 23:44
Notable Verse 23:44 “So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.”
Don’t you just love feasting? The tables groaning under the weight of all the dishes set on it. Smells and sights that both please and tempt you. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. But you know, [...]

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Readings of the Day

Leviticus 20:22 – 22:16
Notable Verse 22:9 “The priests are to keep my requirements so that they do not become guilty and die for treating them with contempt. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.”
What strikes me as interesting in this passage is how different the church has become. These days pastors go out of [...]

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