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I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. Hebrews 10:17  A random memory popped up yesterday that was particularly condemning. The guilt and shame of where I had been in life came suddenly rushing back. Have you ever had the weight of your past crush the breath out of you? I’ve never…
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For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed…   Hebrews 6:7,8  On my way to my Saturday morning…
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For it is impossible, in the case of those who… have shared in the Holy Spirit, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God… Hebrews 6:4-6 I think most of us can identify with saying sorry for something only to do that…
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  You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature… Hebrews 5:12-14  I can clearly and painfully remember being treated as a child. I had been acting as a child, blind to consequences…
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In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears… Hebrews 5:7  Why did Jesus need to pray? Is it because He, like us, struggled with a flesh nature that distracted him from God? Did his body scream out to have its own way at the expense of…
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Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.   Hebrews 4:16 It is a great paradox that while God is everywhere and while He has gone to great lengths to restore us to himself, we do not always…
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For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of…
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They were unable to enter his rest because of unbelief.  Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.   Hebrews 3:19-4:1 I remember being very weary of the life I was living. An endless cycle of failure, asking forgiveness…
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Monday, July 11th Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. Hebrews 3:12,13  Step Ten of Alcoholics Anonymous says that we need to continue to take a personal inventory. Daily, we need to be introspective, analyzing self to see that…
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Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion…  Hebrews 3:7,8 If God spoke, would you listen? I remember, as a child, hearing the stories of how the Israelites (in the Old Testament) went through a repetitive cycle of rebellion, punishment and repentance, only to do it all over…
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