God Himself has declared in Scripture, not as an Old Testament Law but an eternal prophecy, that Israel, just as it was in biblical times, will never cease to be a nation or people before Him forever, no matter what they do. This is what the Scriptures say, “Thus says the LORD, Who gives the […]
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We should rather find it worrying or strange that as God’s people, we can rightly use Psalm 121, and other similar passages – e.g. Isaiah chapters 41 & 43, to pray and partake of their blessings, despite their direct references to Israel but when it comes to the following Psalm, Psalm 122, where an exhortation
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How to Fulfill the Vision God Has for You In the previous studies, we looked at God’s will for us to be people of vision. We also looked at the importance of living by God’s vision, and how we can obtain the vision God has for us. Just as knowing the right medication does not
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How to Know God’s Vision for Your Life – Cont’d Another primary way to know God’s vision for our lives is to pray and ask Him. Matthew 7:7-8 says “Ask, and it will be given to you.. for everyone who asks receives”. This is God’s will for us that we receive whenever we ask Him.
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How to Know God’s Vision for your Life A primary way to obtain God’s vision can be found in our main text: “Where there is no vision [no revelation of God and His word], the people are unrestrained; But happy and blessed is he who keeps the law [of God]” (Proverbs 29:18). In this text,
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Why We Must Have the Kind of Vision God Desires for Us In the previous study, we learned that God has an ultimate vision for us to conform to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29). He also has individual or personalized visions for each of us based on our unique call and destiny. When we
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The Power of Vision We read in Proverbs 29:18 that “Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law” (NASB). The Hebrew word translated vision in this text is “Chazown”, which also means revelation, prophecy, divine communication, or divine message. In the world, people create visions for
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IIt is a true saying that “Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes; the rest sit around and pluck blackberries” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Romans 1: 20 also says, “since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine
In the previous two studies, we established from the Scriptures that there are two very distinct public comings or appearances of Jesus from heaven to earth, following His death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. One of these comings is at the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) and the other is Jesus’ return from heaven to earth
Last week, we saw that in the popular passage about the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), Paul essentially repeated the very words of Jesus regarding His return in Matthew 24:29-31. In both passages, Jesus and Paul gave the unique characteristics that will mark Jesus’ initial return to the