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byfaithmedia · 11 days

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Truth 🙌🏻

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leonbloder · 1 month

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Render Unto

According to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus on Tuesday of Holy Week, religious and political leaders came together to try and trick Jesus with a slippery question. They asked Jesus "Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor or not?"

If Jesus had answered "No," they would have reported him to the authorities for sedition. If Jesus had answered "Yes," he would have been discredited in the eyes of the common people, who flocked to hear him speak.

Instead, Jesus asked them to bring him a Roman coin that was stamped with Caesar's image. He took the coin, and then asked, "Whose head is this, and whose title?" They replied, "The emperor's."

Then Jesus said, "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar and to God the things that are God's."

This response forces the crowd to ask two follow-up questions.

The first question would have been, "What belongs to God?" And the answer for Jesus and many of the people who were gathered there would have been: "Everything."

Then they would have asked, "So, then what belongs to Caesar?" Jesus slyly implies that the answer to that question is, in fact, "Nothing."

Jesus' words must have sent a thrill through the common people standing there listening.

To people who felt that they had nothing and Caesar and his crowd had everything, it was an amazing, liberating moment to hear that God, the Creator, and Sustainer of the Universe was for them and that they belonged to Him, not to Caesar.

The same thrill should fill our hearts as well.

Although we may be forced from time to time to deal with corrupt political realities... Although we may struggle with the hypocrisy of religious institutions who often collude with the Empire of the day... We are not owned by them.

We belong to God. And our belonging to God sets us free.

You see, true freedom comes when we realize God's great love for us, and we respond to that love by offering to God our heart, soul mind, and strength--in other words, everything.

When we let go of all of the things that are holding us back from loving God, we are set free.

True freedom comes when we learn to love our neighbor by breaking down the false divisions created by the Empire to keep us in our places.

When we are finally able to see the world as God sees it, we are free to love others unconditionally.

May you experience the great joy and freedom that comes from knowing that in life and death, you belong to God. May you find peace in the knowledge that when God is for you, nothing can truly stand against you.

And may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen.

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asthegirlturns · 1 year

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#WORD #dailydevo #morningdevotional #proverbs16v3 #ivebeencommitted #theaters #fridayshout https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5G5gmLKcD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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bettyfullymadeventures · 1 year

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02082023 2 Chronicles 13-19

King Abijah> King Asa> King Jehoshaphat

many battles were won because the people of Judah relied on the Lord and whenever they fail to rely on the Lord, they receive the consequences of doing so. and whenever they cried out to God, the Lord helped them.

02092023 2 Chronicles 20-21

King Jehoram

later in the time of King Jehoshaphat, he made alliance with Ahaziah, king of Israel, whose ways were wicked and thru a phrophet, he prophesied, the Lord will destroy everything he had made.

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godssong · 2 years

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@therealsweetspot Your feelings will catch up! A while back I saw @wandamulzac post “your feelings will catch up”. If you give your feelings more power than your faith you will often find yourself in a state of anxiety, frustration, depression, insecurity or mental stress. Growing and maturing for me means learning how to live by faith in God and by the truth of God’s Word instead of living by my feelings, like the psalmist in Psalm 42 describes: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Why am I so overwrought? Why am I so disturbed? Why can’t I just hope in God? Despite all my emotions, I will believe and praise the One who saves me and is my life. Hopefully it goes without saying that feelings are not inherently bad. Emotions enrich our lives and are absolutely necessary to building a close relationship with God and with people around us. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Without emotion, we would never be able to experience compassion and empathy, or indignation and inspiration. Even emotions we perceive as negative, like shame and regret, can bring us closer to other people by prompting us to seek reconciliation when we’ve done something wrong. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But emotions aren’t meant to replace our relationship with God: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the end they will be destroyed. Their own emotions are their god, and they take pride in the shameful things they do. Their minds are set on worldly things. Philippians 3:19 GW Have your emotions become your God? That means we can start to worship them, obey them, and rely on them in ways we really shouldn’t. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Trust what God’s word says, your feelings will catch up! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #DailyScripture #DailyPrayer #DailyBible #PrayerLife #BibleQuote #SoulScripts #JesusCalling #JesusOverEverything #JoyOfTheLord #ScriptureStudy #DailyEncouragement #GraceUponGrace #BibleGram #DailyDevo #ChristianPost https://www.instagram.com/p/ChU69vlu-1D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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jesushut · 3 years

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Be patient with God. He is working. A M E N ❤️ We are JESUSHUT - spreading love #instabible #sonofgod #motivationalquoteoftheday #positivequotes #inspirationnalquotes #motivationquotes #biblestudymoments #seekhimfirst #morningdevotinal #dailydevotional #dailydevo #everythingchristian #godlyquotes #mindfulness #mindfulmoment #christianmeditation #prayerworks #prayalways #powerofprayer #dailyprayer #prayerlife #prayerispowerful #prayer #pray #praying #prayerrequest #prayerrequests #prayersup #prayerworrior https://www.instagram.com/p/CRdPOKEDeuN/?utm_medium=tumblr

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dylanseeks · 4 years

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I'm reading through Timothy Keller's book, "The Prodigal God", and dang, it's a good read so far. Within the book, Keller examines the parable of the two lost sons (also known as "the prodigal son") and how both sons exhibit common ways in which we can interact with God.

As this quote points out, it's easy to want to "use" God. It's easy to toss Him in as an add-on to life. It's easy to love Him for what He can give and provide, rather than for just Him. It's easy to make following God about us. I mean, just look at so many churches and ministries and sermons - the main focus is on how Christianity can positively impact your life. It's about what's in it for you.

And don't get me wrong, we have riches and blessings in Christ. But the question is, when we don't get what we want, when life doesn't go the way we had hoped, will we still love Him? Will we still cling to Him?

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gochristteam · 4 years

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GO CHRIST DEVOTIONAL 10th April 2020 Easter Special - 5 Nugget: He Spared not His Son He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:32 KJV When scripture says God did not spare his own Son, it implies that he did not withhold him from us though he could have opted to do so and no one could have questioned him. After all he was not responsible for our decision to disobey which gave birth to death. Yet for the sake of the love he has for his creation, he gave us his Son whom we killed. If God did this for us out of love and not compulsion, can you think of anything he would not do to make sure that we are happy as long as that act is consistent with his character? If God was able to give us his Son freely, then material things which many have made a priority in life is nothing to him. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 KJV Beloved, with Christ and through him, our heavenly Father has granted us access to all the riches in his kingdom. Beloved, from our scripture above everything that happened to Jesus was for our benefit and when we walk faithfully with him, we would enjoy it to the fullest. DIG DEEPER Isaiah 53 PRAYER Please pray as led by the Holy Spirit ................................. What's App Us On +233279627832 Shalom! #possessingthenations #dailydevotional #dailyquotes #dailyinspiration #dailymotivation #dailymotivationalquotes #dailydevo #dailydevotion #biblequotes #bibleverses #bible #biblestudy #bibleverse #ghana #christ #christianitygh #Christian #Christianity #jesuslovesyou #jesus #devotional #devotion #scripture #easter #faith #intheword #evangelism https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ymZ9oHa51/?igshid=5euxtix0ve9u

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talentedgeniuses-blog · 4 years

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Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! . . . . . . . . . #verseoftheday #bibleverse #dailybread #dailydevo #creation #creator #clay #potter #god #bible #phillipians413 #jesus #jesuschrist #jesusisking #jesuslovesyou #jesussaves #jesusislord #godisgood #godfirst #godsplan https://www.instagram.com/p/B8k022sHxd3/?igshid=1j4uembge0bxi

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verseoftheday2021-blog · 4 years

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Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! Follow 👉 @verse_of_the_day_2021 for more! . . . . . . . . . #verseoftheday #bibleverse #dailybread #dailydevo #creation #creator #clay #potter #god #bible #phillipians413 #jesus #jesuschrist #jesusisking #jesuslovesyou #jesussaves #jesusislord #godisgood #godfirst #godsplan

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gracefulreflection · 5 years

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So it’s necessary for him to increase and for me to be diminished. “For the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks from the natural realm. But the One who comes from above is above everything and speaks of the highest realm of all! John 3:30‭-‬31 TPT MORE OF HIM. LESS OF ME. #grace #gracefulreflection #goodnews #faith #christian #christianfaith #gospel #Jesus #Jesuslovesme #praise #worship #bible #bibleverse #biblereading #dailyscripture #dailybread #dailydevo #dailymotivation #art #chooseJesus #WordBeforeWorld #flourish https://www.instagram.com/p/BxJ1ZyJFSqe/?igshid=10milvqpzxbpi

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byfaithmedia · 1 month

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Stress can feel unmanageable and overwhelming at times. But God has provided us with the means to achieve freedom, calm and peace in His Holy Word. The declaration and biblical confession below will help you to find perfect peace, as you continue to press in for victory

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leonbloder · 3 months

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The Prosperity Gospel Isn't Good News

The prosperity gospel crowd (who claim that if you give to their church, you will get more back from God than you give) often misuses a verse from Matthew's Gospel to make their case.

Here, it is from the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible:

Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

A lot of biblical translations employ similar language for the last line of the verse, translating the last word as "money," "wealth," or "riches."

However, one version leaves intact in its original form the word used by the author of Matthew's Gospel, the Revised Standard Version (RSV). The word many other versions translate as "money" is mammon in the RSV.

Adherents and leaders within the prosperity gospel movement love this verse because it gives them an on-ramp to an argument that people should give more to their ministries.

Aside from being a gross and self-serving interpretation of the text, those who focus solely on translating mammon to money miss the whole point of the statement itself.

There's so much more here than a simple indictment of loving money more than God, so much more.

The word mammon refers to an entire system Fr. Richard Rohr describes as "disorder." Money may be a part of it, but the more expansive interpretation of mammon shows us that it includes power, inequality, oppression, and privilege.

Many scholars have further expanded the word mammon to be a slang reference to a Canaanite and Mesopotamian god who demanded sacrifices from his adherents, including the sacrifice of their children, in order to grant them their wishes.

In short, Jesus appears to be describing a system that acts like a false god or an idol that constantly demands more and more of us without offering anything in return other than emptiness and misery.

Those who short-change this interpretation by focusing solely on money unwittingly buy into what they say they are trying to avoid.

Jesus is saying here that you can't live in two worlds. You can't have one foot in the kingdom of God and another in the kingdom of mammon. There's no middle ground with this.

Fr. Richard Rohr puts it like this:

The love of God can’t be doled out by any process whatsoever. We can’t earn it. We can’t lose it. As long as we stay in this world of accumulation, of earning and losing, we’ll live in perpetual resentment, envy, or climbing.

This also needs to be said:

If you have ever been poor, you know what it's like to live in scarcity, to be uncertain whether to feed your family or keep the lights on because sometimes you must make that choice.

For some cynical preacher to take a verse like Matthew 6:24 and use it to prey primarily on people who don't have any wealth at all is unconscionable.

These preachers are either unwittingly or uncritically serving mammon when they do this. Their business model is grounded in accumulation and earning. The "gospel" they preach is a self-serving black hole that takes and takes but rarely gives.

God's love is not contingent upon how much or little we give to our church. God's love is unconditional. When we live with both feet firmly planted in God's kingdom, we become ambassadors of God's shalom.

We live out of the abundance of God's love rather than the scarcity of mammon.

When we live this way, our generosity is not coerced or an obligation. Our entire lives are an offering of gratitude for what God has done, is doing, and will do in our lives.

May we learn to live more fully out of this abundance. May we plant our feet firmly in God's kingdom of shalom. And may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us now and always. Amen.

#presbymusings #dailydevotion #leonbloder #dailydevo #dailydevotional #christian living #leon bloder #faith #spiritualgrowth #spirituality #prosperity gospel

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asthegirlturns · 1 year

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#WORD #dailydevo #morningdevotional #inthebeginning #TheWord #Lent #AshWednesday2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/Co99Wywr8jY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#word #dailydevo #morningdevotional #inthebeginning #theword #lent #ashwednesday2023

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bettyfullymadeventures · 1 year

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02072023 2 Chronicles 7-12

Solomom > Rehoboam> Abijah

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But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard. How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the Lord your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.”

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mymixedthoughts-blog · 5 years

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With our technology today, it’s very easy to see what others have that we don’t, and where they are that we haven’t been yet. It certainly makes life very interesting YET the very envy we feel will cause us to stumble in our own walk. We change lanes and try to achieve goals that were not ours to begin with. (I’m guilty of this too!😒) We get so easily DISTRACTED. Our race called life is certainly full of bumps and curves, and it’s hard to stay focused, especially when we strive by ourselves.⠀ ⠀ But GOD is faithful. (thank You Lord!) May this verse remind you that we are not meant to run alone. He is our strength and His grace will always be enough. We only need to keep our eyes on Jesus. How? Well, spend time with him, He is waiting for you. ❤️⠀ ⠀ #dailydevo (at Sydney, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1mbaoUAQND/?igshid=uc5qi0auehjx

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