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Prophecy Is History In Advance, Daniel 11 – July 25th, 2024

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Photoshop of the day - Stop the cycle

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. (James 1:19-20)

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By Garris Elkins

Starting Over

There are reasons why our lives fall apart. To blame it on bad luck or making wrong choices only touches the surface of what is happening. Deeper than our pain and disappointment, God wants to reform our lives.

Jeremiah’s vision of the potter’s wheel is well known. In the story, there are neglected truths that unless we understand them, we will miss the real reason why the Lord had to crush His original pot to recreate something new. In the reforming process, th... moreBy Garris Elkins

Starting Over

There are reasons why our lives fall apart. To blame it on bad luck or making wrong choices only touches the surface of what is happening. Deeper than our pain and disappointment, God wants to reform our lives.

Jeremiah’s vision of the potter’s wheel is well known. In the story, there are neglected truths that unless we understand them, we will miss the real reason why the Lord had to crush His original pot to recreate something new. In the reforming process, the Lord is rebuilding the consequence of our sin or our misunderstanding of His will.

The most insightful verse in the story is Jeremiah 18: 4, “The jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.”

The Lord has hopes for each of our lives. God’s hopes are built upon His perfect love and what He sees for our lives that we cannot yet see. The Lord’s love is so great, that He will crumble the hindering elements of our failure so He can reform us back to His original plan for our life. That reforming may look completely different than we expected and may be misunderstood, but it must take place to accomplish His desire.

The crushing season can feel immensely painful. Scripture tells us “For the Lord disciplines the one He loves” (Hebrews 12:6). The Lord’s discipline is always an act of love. It gives us a second chance to start over again and rebuild what originally fell apart and caused our lives to resemble a sloppy lump of unformed clay.

Only under the loving hands of the Lord can the elements of our failures rise again and be reformed back to God’s original plan for our lives. What motivates that restorative work is God’s mercy.

Both the crushing and rebuilding are expressions of God’s merciful love. To not understand what constitutes God’s love will cause us to remain in a crumbled state of spiritual immaturity. Remaining in that state will create anger and animosity toward God and prevent us from seeing the finished product of His love.

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New Wine With Jesus

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By Ed Elliott

Why Can God Love Wicked and Evil People?

God doesn’t love us when we are good. In fact, no matter how good we think we are, it will never measure up to what Jesus said is good. Actually, when Jesus was called good, He said that only God was truly good (Mark 10:18). So if only God is good, where does that leave us? That alone proves God doesn’t love us when we are good because we can never be good enough.

If you place your confidence in your ability to be a good person worthy o... moreBy Ed Elliott

Why Can God Love Wicked and Evil People?

God doesn’t love us when we are good. In fact, no matter how good we think we are, it will never measure up to what Jesus said is good. Actually, when Jesus was called good, He said that only God was truly good (Mark 10:18). So if only God is good, where does that leave us? That alone proves God doesn’t love us when we are good because we can never be good enough.

If you place your confidence in your ability to be a good person worthy of being loved by God, you are misplacing your confidence. Plus, it shows you misunderstand who God is. His ability to love you isn’t based on your character or lack of it. Love is who God is; it isn’t what He does. His very self and existence are wrapped up in love. His life and actions define who He is and what love is like. Jesus shocked His disciples and the religious leaders of His day when He said that God is kind to the unthankful and evil (Luke 6:35). What many don’t know is God’s kindness has a very specific purpose when it is experienced.

“Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?” (Romans 2:4).

Paul, who wrote this passage, is actually speaking from personal experience. He was a well-known enemy of God who had believers tortured, killed, and imprisoned. Then one day, on his way to Damascus to have more believers arrested, Jesus appeared to Him. Jesus let him know that the persecution he was bringing to the church was all about Him. Jesus took the persecution personally. What transacted from this encounter with Jesus is testified in Paul’s letter to Titus.

For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared [in human form as the Man, Jesus Christ], He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we have done, but because of His own compassion and mercy, by the cleansing of the new birth (spiritual transformation, regeneration) and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out richly upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we would be justified [made free of the guilt of sin] by His [compassionate, undeserved] grace, and that we would be [acknowledged as acceptable to Him and] made heirs of eternal life [actually experiencing it] according to our hope (His guarantee). (Titus 3-7 AMP)

Loving our enemies pays off as it did with Paul who ended up writing two-thirds of the New Testament.

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You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. (Psalm 56:8)

‘This image came to my mind yesterday as I was thinking about both how our tears are made of water, and Jesus walked on the water. So my goal for this image was to show that no matter how many tears you shed, that Jesus is still sovereign over every emotion, feeling, and season of our lives.’

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Tom's updates are always solid. Will watch at some point today. 🎺

HIGH Alert: Middle East Fire Countdown

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Photoshop of the day - First Moment In Heaven

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Photoshop of the day - Don't look back

But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)

Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. (Luke 17:32-33)

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