Luke 19:13 (KJV) – And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke 19:13 (NASB) – And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back.’ Occupy (pragmateuomai) – occupy, […]
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Hebrews 12:1-2 (Amplified) – Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course
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Matthew 11:28-30 (Amplified Bible) – Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will
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1 Peter 2:24-25 (AMP) – He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree, that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed. For you were going astray like [so many] sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd
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In the end of the prayer to understand the love of God in Ephesians 3, there are some words that are amazing, especially in the Amplified Bible: …that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly
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The Lord will equip me with everything I need to do His will. But He isn’t going to equip me with what I think I need in order to be somebody else or do something other than what He has made me to do. He designed me to be me. He put gifts and passions
Romans 6:4 – Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. It is through the glory of the Father that I walk in newness of life. It is
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The below is based on Ephesians 3:16-19; 1 John 4:16-18; John 3:16-17; Romans 5:8-10; John 17:6; Philippians 3:12-14; 1 Timothy 6:12. Read them in the Amplified Bible. May He grant me out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with mighty power in the inner man by the Holy Spirit
Matthew 6:25-33 (Amplified Bible) Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? Look
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I found this old wrinkled and ripped paper this morning. When I read it, I found confessions of who I am in Christ. It was so good that I retyped it. In 1984 just as we were completing Bible School, back when I typed on a typewriter rather than a computer, I read through Ephesians
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