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Category: David Jeremiah

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.

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If you have been born only once, you will have to die twice. But if you have been born twice, you will have to die only once (and you may even escape that one death if Jesus returns to the earth during your lifetime).

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God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.

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In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings.

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Peter suggests that we never forget one fact: ‘That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day.’ Translation: God sets His watch to a time zone not accessible to us. Once again we need to remember that He is the one who created time, like everything else, and He uses it for His own purposes.I like the little story about the foolishness of quantifying God’s timing. A little boy asked God, ‘How long is a second in heaven?’ God said, ‘One million years.’ The boy asked, ‘How much is a penny in heaven?’ God answered, ‘One million dollars.’ The boy said, ‘Could I have a penny?’ To which God answered, ‘In just a second.

We fear God by honoring, reverencing, and cherishing Him. His greatness and majesty reduce us to an overpowering sense of awe that is not focused only on His wrath and judgment but also on His transcendent glory , which is like nothing else we can confront in this world. It leaves us all but speechless.

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America has learned what our repressive and terrorist adversaries do not understand: that liberty without law is anarchy, liberty to defy law is rebellion, but liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.

We need encouragement, not sermonizing, and we need clear-eyed acknowledgement of the situation, not a sanctified gloss that pushes us toward saying, ‘I see I must not admit my pain because, after all, I’m a Christian. I’ll just have to cover it up.

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Trust is an act of the mind, while obedience is an act of the hands and feet.

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Darkness does something to a place, doesn’t it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can do no harm.

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It’s fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.

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Biblical heroes were regular people who had to learn the same things you and I have to learn–to drive out fear by increasing their knowledge of God, to shift their focus from their present fear to the eternal God, to replace what they didn’t know about the future with what they did know about Him.