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Just a thought by coppi
“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.” “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But…
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Just a thought by coppi
Proverbs 15:4 says, “A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.” Matthew 15:11″It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” James 3:2. Indeed, we all make many mistakes. For if we could control…
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Just a thought by coppi
“Evangelist Gypsy Smith once said, “There are five Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the Christian, and some people will never read the first four.” In other words, the message is seen before it is heard. Mahatma Gandhi – as a young man, he practiced law in South Africa and faced much discrimination. What he saw…
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Mary believed Luke 1:45. Elizabeth to Mary – “you are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what he said” – “How” is my first response when I hear God’s still small voice saying “you won’t have to” in answer to a prayer I have been praying diligently about. Zechariah uttered how when the…
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I love to read meditations of different authors, the ones I am enjoying this moment in time is about prayer. Following is what I gleaned today: The prayer of Release: God, hear me & answer me. You know I am troubled by thoughts & feelings of ____________, (fill in with what is bothering you). You also know why, and…
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Let me look beyond limitations of time & space. Father, to the vastness of life in you. Belum (pronounced B’lum) “not yet” there in Indonesia, the word “no” is avoided whenever possible….too abrupt, too final & unyielding. Belum leaves room for dreams. Asked in a job interview, “Do you have a college degree”? A 50-year old man who left…
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Roma Downey: ” When I was on “Touched by an Angel” we used to say that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous. “The voice I look for speaks through my heart. It’s less of a head voice – all my fears & doubts come through my head but it comes to my heart. A deeper knowing”. John…
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Proverbs 14:12. There is a way that seems right to a man but it’s end is the way to death. Jer 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans for welfare & not for evil, to give you a future & a hope. Proverbs 16:20 commit to the Lord…
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Charles Spurgeon warned: “Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.” When I read this, I can hear my mother saying, “Coppi, you cannot run away from your difficulties because you have to take yourself with you.” So often in my life, I thought if I could be somewhere else,…
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Col 1:17. He himself is before all things & all things are held together in him & that we are now reconciled to God by the sacrifice & death of Christ…. There is a protein molecule in the human body called “laminin”. Laminin is a cell-adhesive protein molecule that literally holds us together. This molecule is in…
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