This morning I have been reading Jeremiah 29.  Many of us know this chapter infamously.  "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord…" –If we don’t know this by heart, we’ve probably heard it from at least 10 different preachers.

While that verse will never weather with time, another line caught my eye as I read right over it. Verse 13.  " You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity."

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So here lately I have been doing a little bit of studying on a movie that had come out within the past few years or so.  It opens up an idea, or a conspiracy that leads only, in my opinion, into the den of a snake.  What do I mean?  As to deviate the plans of the devil I will not give the name of the film, but only to give you an idea of its internals:  The movie gives an idea that God is not real.  That Jesus is the same "figure" as in many other religions. And a conspiracy that the reason for Christ is the a fascination of the government.  And much more…but as I studied the "evidence" they had given, it was no evidence at all.  Many of their facts were no facts at all. Conspiracies conspiracies conspiracies…yada yada yada.

This is my rant on the fact that people can spend their life trying to disprove God, but have never succeeded.  Generation after generation. Two millennia, people have tried to disprove and shoot down God, but have never done it.

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Proverbs 13:3 (The Message)

  Careful words make for a careful life;
   careless talk may ruin everything.

Men, according to this study, averaged 15,669 words a day — and women 16,215.  On average that would be about 11 words a minute.  That’s talking straight for 24 hours.  Now that ’s a lot of noise!

Have you ever considered though, what your words mean?  How much they affect you every moment of the day?  How much weight they really carry?

Have you ever said something that you meant one way but it came out way wrong?  "I can’t believe you said that…jerk…" -"No, no, no that’s not what I meant!"

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Jesus had a hard time when he went to Calvary.  Beaten, bruised, broken bones, and a large cross the size of a Lincoln weighing on his back made His journey harder than any ride in the Tour de France. 

Imagine for a moment if Christ had to do it all over again.  Yet only this time id did it in respect to the entanglements of today’s society.

In my eyes - it would be harder than the first time.  Why?  Because the first time He carried the sins of the world - but this time he’d be carrying not only the world of sin and shame, but much of the church.

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2 John 1:8

"Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully."

So this morning we started bible study again, and as always it blew my socks off.  We are studying the "Honor’s Reward" by John Bevere, and God continues to shape and rearrange the things in my heart.

But today I want to share with you a verse that was in discussion.  2 John 1:8.  Here we see that John Read the rest of this entry »