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THE COMING CRAFTSMEN

Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. And I said, “What are these coming to do?”  - Zechariah 1:20 & 21a   REFERENCE  Zechariah 1:16-21 Jesus said, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly,” (John 10:10). And so, we see in today’s passage how the ‘thief’, Satan, represented by the four horns, has gored and destroyed Israel to the point that the Israelites couldn’t lift their heads in their own land. However, God never abandons those in covenant with Him no matter what befalls them; His eyes are perpetually on them for their comfort,...
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LET LOT LEAVE!

Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. Genesis 12:5 REFERENCE Genesis 12:1-5, & 13:1-15 This is God’s plan for Abram: remove him from the idolatry of his family and turn his life around. Often, we can't get to where God wants us to in life without leaving where we presently are. The call for Abram to leave his familiar was transgenerational; God was moving him...
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FORGET NOT

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. - Psalm 103:2 REFERENCE Psalm 103:1-14 As we look back on our goals and plans which we set up at the beginning of the year, and as we look forward to the remainder of the year, we might be wondering about some things that are not yet in place. But, we mustn’t forget the benefits of God. Sometimes, we are so consumed by what we yet have to accomplish that we forget to look back and see what distance we have covered, and what we have accomplished. We often suffer amnesia...
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BEND THE KNEE

Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace… But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up. Daniel: 3:17-18 REFERENCE Daniel 3:1-25 Amongst the multitude of people who bent their knees when king Nebuchadnezzar made his infamous decree for everyone in his kingdom to bow down and worship the graven image he had set up were Jews who had been taken as prisoners from Judah. Amongst them must have been priests, rabbis...
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SUFFICIENT HELP

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” John 5:7 REFERENCE John 5:1-9 Painfully, this man had been ‘there’ for 38 years, yet he didn’t (and couldn’t) find ONE PERSON who paid enough attention to his situation to render him help. No surprise, this is simply because man is naturally selfish and largely driven by his own needs. Besides, it is unlikely that people help others when they are also in a helpless situation. The sick...
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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREEENER…

Now it came to pass…that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. Ruth 1:1 REFERENCE Ruth 1:1-7 Tough and trying situations are not meant to destroy you but to create opportunities for your faith to shine forth; God expects you to go through and come out victorious. Elimelech and his wife Naomi may have started out in marriage with a pleasant experience and things working out for them. However, they encountered some tough times and they decided...
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SEEK TO KNOW GOD

Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, nor was the word of the LORD yet revealed to him.  I Samuel 3:7   REFERENCE I Samuel 3:1-9   Though Samuel had been ministering in the temple of God for some years, he still didn’t know the Lord. He read the scrolls, but it was just a closed book to him, and he never received a word from God through it or from it.   It is possible to be serving in church and not know the God of the church. You can be so faithful and overburdened with church activities that...
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STRENGTH TO BRING FORTH

And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. Isaiah 37:3    REFERENCE Isaiah 37:1-3 The picture here painted is that of a woman at the point of delivery, yet lacking the strength to give the ‘final push’; it is indeed a disheartening one. Sometimes in our everyday lives, we get to this point, the point where something or an idea we have been pregnant with for “9 months” (indicative of its full term)...
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LIVE THE NEW LIFE!

When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun! - II Corinthians 5:17 (TLB)   REFERENCE II Corinthians 5:17 (TLB)   Christianity is more than a religion; it is more than church attendance or membership. It is the very life of God lived out in man. Your salvation is more than just an escape route to heaven – it qualifies you for abundant life (John 10:10) and to reign in life through Jesus (Rom. 5:17). When you became ‘saved,’ you didn’t go from a lost worm...
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JOSEPH: FRUITFUL TO FORGET

Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. Genesis 48:14 REFERENCE Genesis 41:50-52 & 48:8-19 Manasseh and Ephraim were Joseph’s sons born to him in the land of his affliction – Egypt; so he named them according to his experiences. He named his first, son ‘Manasseh’ which is interpreted to mean, ‘God has made me forget all my toil’ and the second he named, ‘Ephraim’ – ‘God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.’ But when Joseph brought his...
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