GUIDANCE
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Daily Readings: 1 John 5 and Psalm 50 In chapter 5, John writes profoundly about the eternal life that God gives to all those who believe in His Son, Jesus Christ. He writes that through our faith in Jesus Christ we are empowered to overcome the temptations of this world and to live lives of
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Daily Readings: 1 Corinthians 10 and Psalm 119:49-64 1 Corinthians 9 highlighted the importance of a single-minded pursuit of Christlikeness and God’s will in all things. In 1 Cor. 10, Paul uses the experiences of the Israelites in the wilderness to warn us against the temptations that might derail us from that pursuit. He warns
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Daily Readings: Acts 27 and Psalm 95 After the drudgery and boredom of more than two years of imprisonment in Caesarea, the apostle Paul was suddenly thrust into a high-paced adventure at sea. Under the sovereign hand of the Lord, the Roman authorities set out to transport him to Rome to stand trial before Caesar.
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Daily Readings: Acts 21 and Psalm 89 Determined to fulfil the Lord’s calling, Paul travelled to Jerusalem. In Acts 20:22-23, he stated plainly that he was going there ‘compelled by the Holy Spirit’ and knowing that in every city he visited the Spirit warned him that hardships awaited. Now, as he travelled, he was warned
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Daily Readings: Acts 16 and Psalm 84 Acts 16 includes the fascinating account of the Holy Spirit’s very hands-on guidance of Paul, Silas and Timothy’s mission. First the Spirit kept them from preaching in the Roman province of Asia (modern-day Turkey). Then He would not allow them to enter Bithynia. It’s not that the Lord
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Daily Readings: Acts 9 and Psalm 77 The main focus of Acts 9 is clearly Saul’s radical conversion from being a persecutor of Christians to being an outspoken preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ who “baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah” . However, the man who caught
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Daily Readings: Acts 7 and Psalm 75 Jesus warned His disciples in John 16:2-3, “The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.” Stephen was the first disciple for whom this came to
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Daily Readings: Acts 4 and Psalm 72 We saw yesterday how courageous Peter became once filled with the Holy Spirit, and how willing he was to risk everything for Jesus. That theme continues today. Hauled before the same religious authorities who had so recently put Jesus to death, Peter and John refused to be silenced.
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Daily Readings: Acts 1 and Psalm 65 The disciples returned to Jerusalem in obedience to Jesus’ command, to await their infilling with the Holy Spirit there. They “joined together constantly in prayer”, eagerly anticipating His arrival and, I suspect, praying fervently for His help in the great mission Jesus had left them to complete. During
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