Tag: Righteousness
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GNB 2.229
10/3/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” (Matthew 5.13) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: Jesus never preaches, teaches or manifests the righteousness…
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GNB 2.227
10/1/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you; falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice! Be glad because great is your reward in heaven. It is in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Matthew 5.11-12) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: Before…
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GNB 2.226
9/29/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5.10) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: When I began this series of reflections on The Beatitudes, I suggested that their true focus was not visible in descriptors of blessing as the world understands it…
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GNB 2.222
9/25/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Blessed are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness because they shall be filled.” (Matthew 5.6) “After this, Jesus knowing that all things had been finished so that the prophecy may be fulfilled, said, ‘I thirst.’” (John 19.28) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: We have all experienced being parched. Some of us…
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GNB 2.220
9/22/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5.4) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: As the Spirit was teaching me yesterday in reflection on the “Beatitudes” which lead into the full “Sermon on the Mount,” I was inspired to consider the Decalogue as well. At first, in my…
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GNB 2.218
9/20/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Now when Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to Him, and He began to teach them [all].” (Matthew 5.1-2) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: Among several translations we find headings/subtitles to designate a collection of writings with a singular focus. In the…
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GNB 2.198
8/24/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 2. 5-6) “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. After fasting forty days and…
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GNB 2.197
8/23/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 2. 5-6) “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. For forty days He was tempted…
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GNB 2.137
6/13/2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “It [the second beast] also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its…
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GNB 2.105
May 7, 2023 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READING: “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”(Revelation 4.1) TODAY’S REFLECTION ON GOD’S WORD: Now that the foundation…
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