rickvan on December 12th, 2008

[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living! 14 Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect [...]

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rickvan on December 11th, 2008

I heard another report the other day about researchers investigating the causes of happiness. Everybody wants to be happy—we spend our lives chasing happiness. We think we know what will make us happy, but more often than not, once we achieve those things, we find out that we are not at all happier than we [...]

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rickvan on December 10th, 2008

There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death.  Proverbs 16:25 AMP A man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the spirits (of the dead).  Proverbs 21:16 AMP The king’s [...]

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rickvan on December 8th, 2008

But when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it roams through dry [arid] places in search of rest, but it does not find any. 44 Then it says, I will go back to my house from which I came out. And when it arrives, it finds the place unoccupied, swept, put in [...]

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rickvan on December 7th, 2008

They are Hebrews? So am I! They are Israelites? So am I! They are descendants of Abraham? So am I! 23 Are they [ministering] servants of Christ (the Messiah)? I am talking like one beside himself, [but] I am more, with far more extensive and abundant labors, with far more imprisonments, [beaten] with countless stripes, [...]

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