Tag: Comfort
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Receiving the Comfort of the Lord
There are many blessings that we receive from the Lord as Christians. One of those is the comfort of the Lord. In difficult times and circumstances the Lord comforts His people. He carries them when they are feeling low and He lifts them up when they are down.
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How God Makes A Silk Purse Out Of A Sows Ear
(Galatians 4:12-15) You’ve heard all the old sayings like this one, I’m sure. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear. And it’s quite true! YOU can’t. But God can! He does it all the time. The underlying principle here is that something wonderful and good cannot come from something common, bad…
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Godly Grief And Comfort
(2 Corinthians 7:5-11) One of the guarantees of this life is that there will be troubles. We will suffer afflictions that cause us to grieve that are both internally and externally generated. External events can cause us grief, such as the loss of a loved one, and we can cause grief within ourselves through stress,…
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Forgiveness and Comfort
(2 Corinthians 2:1-11) In the first letter Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, he was quite scathing about some of the practices they were accepting and allowing to occur. Those practices included many forms of adultery and immorality and had to be addressed in a direct and emphatic way. Judgement was made and those…
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God of Comfort
(2 Corinthians 1:1-7) In this second letter of Paul to the church at Corinth we see him answer a number of questions and issues raised in the first letter. While the first letter was quite stern in a number of places, this second letter is more conciliatory. Paul emphasises the need to walk in love…
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God Wants You To Know
(Acts 27:13-26) One of the important things Christians have which the non-believers in the world do not have is an understanding of things yet to come. God does not leave His people in the dark. He wants them to know what is going on and this has always been the case. In this section of…
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Protection of The Father
(John 17:6-10) Do you fear the people of the world and what they may do to you? Do you perhaps hide your Christian faith for fear or worry about what people might say? Do you see the things going on in this world and worry about your life here, especially matters like earthquakes, natural disasters,…
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I Go To Prepare a Place
(John 14:1-3) This is a much loved verse by many Christians as it has such a great promise and hope for those who are in the Lord. It is where Jesus says, “I go to prepare a place for you” and, “In my Father’s house are many rooms.” What a wonderful image this presents. It…
