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Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
(1 John 4:4 -- KJV)

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I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Don’t be afraid, because I am with you.  Don’t be intimidated; I am your God.  I will strengthen you.  I will help you.  I will support you with my victorious right hand.

(Isaiah 41:10 -- GW)

Knock, knock jokes can be funny, even though the door is never "opened."  However, standing outside the door of heaven and finding that it will not be opened to us will not be amusing.  It will be hell. 
(Laura  L. Pickle in Portals of Prayer) 

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What do you think?  If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?  And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.  In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

(Matthew 18:12-14 -- NIV)

You reject all who wander away from your laws, because their lies mislead them.
(Psalm 119:118 -- GW)

Then he took Paul and Silas outside and asked, “Sirs, what do I have to do to be saved?”  They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will be saved.”  They spoke the Lord’s word to the jailer and everyone in his home.

(Acts 16:30-32 -- GW)

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

(by Henry Francis Lyte)

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Happy Friday . . .

We can testify to everything Jesus did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem.  People hung him on a cross and killed him, but God brought him back to life on the third day.
(Acts 10:39-40 -- GW)

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We cannot stop talking about what we’ve seen and heard.

(Acts 4:20 – GW)

 

 

When the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
(Psalm 11:3 -- CSB)

But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

(John 20:31 -- NIV)

Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.
(Psalm 71:9 -- NIV)

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.
(Ludwig von Zinzendorf, translated by John Wesley)

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But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.
(Matthew 22:11 -- ESV)

The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
(Revelation 19:14 -- NIV)

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." 
(Vladimir Lenin, famous Communist)

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Christ never committed any sin. He never spoke deceitfully.
(1 Peter 2:22 -- GW)


God had Christ, who was sinless, take our sin so that we might receive God’s approval through him.
(2 Corinthians 5:21 -- GW)





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