* Scriptures presented in today's blog

(Recommend:  Copy these scriptures on paper and keep before you day and night.  To "meditate" means more than a quick reading through of scripture.) 


I Peter 5:8-9   Be sober (clear minded), be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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Ephesians 6:10    be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS might.

(in the Lord ... in the WORD)

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I Corinthians 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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II Corinthians 2:10-11   To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. 

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Hebrews 13:5    Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for HE hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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Matthew 6:33-34    But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

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I Peter 5:7   Casting all your care upon HIM; for HE careth for you.

Philippians 4:6-7    Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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Psalm 51:10-11   Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from THY presence; and take not THY Holy Spirit from me.

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Matthew 6:12;14-15     And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors ...  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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I Samuel 16:1    And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

(The rebellious can go down ... but you must not go down with the rebellious by thinking on them which pulls you down.  Instead focus on the Word given you by God.  Sing hymns to God.  Do that which God says.)

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Acts 27:9-11  Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,  And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives. 

Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul. 

Acts 27:20-25  And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.  

But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.  

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.

For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, Saying,  

Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.  

Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

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Acts 27:31  Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

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Acts 27:42-44  And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:  

And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship.  

(When we are of God, everyone in our path is blessed, because of us.)  

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Ephesians 4:11-15  And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him (The Word) in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

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II Thessalonians 2:3-4   Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

(In KJV this is called "the falling away" ... church groups would fall away from scripture.) 

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Acts 20:25-30     And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.  Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.  For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which HE hath purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.  

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II Timothy 3:1-4  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

 (We see the church would have "a form of godliness" but they would deny the scripture, the power of God)  

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.  

... 13  evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.  

(Things will not get better, but worse as we approach the return of Jesus.)  

And Paul told us what to do as we see this. 

14-17    But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;  (learning these things from God) 

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 

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I John 2:18-19   Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 

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