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Daily Bread Devotions by Chuck Myer  Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17)  How is a man justified before God? A right biblical understanding of this critical doctrine is essential to the church of Jesus Christ....

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Gun Control Or Heart Control?

The psalmist writes words that I trust each of us would repeat as the new morning dawns, "But to You I have cried out, O LORD, and in the morning my prayer comes before You." (Psalm 88:13 - NKJV) Oh that our every "morning" might start with sweet communion with our...

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What To Do While Waiting

May the Lord bless you as the new day takes shape, and may your time spent within the day be a time that no matter what you are doing Christ is not far from your thoughts.  And, may you have as your goal to . . . • "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus...

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Necessary Things!

Begin the morning with praise . . .  "Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." (Psalm 118:1 - NKJV) And so a most appropriate way to start the day, with our thoughts directed toward our God and the effort made on our part to recall...

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Understanding & Hating

You may think my title to this devotion is a strange one, but consider what the psalmist writes to us in Psalm 119,   "Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way" (Psalm 119: 104 - NKJV)   Within our text are the concepts of...

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Truth . . . Where Can It Be Found?

"Remove the false way from me, and graciously grant me Thy law . . . Thy law is truth." (Psalm 119:29, 142 - NASB)   "Truth!" A most important matter, would you not agree? In days past, in the days in which you and I live, "truth" matters! "Truth" is essential for man...

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Remembering The Wondrous Story

From the apostle Paul's letter to the church at Philippi we read,   ". . . although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men....

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Christ . . . Raised Or Not Raised?

To those unsteady believers in Corinth the apostle Paul wrote,   ". . . how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised . . . your...

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Redeemed By The Blood Of The Lamb

"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses" (Ephesians 1:7 - NASB)   When we check ourselves out against the backdrop of God's holy Word we know that we are sinners (Romans 3:23), and we know that our sin separates us from God...

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Getting Submission Right!

May I encourage you to have the mind-set of the psalmist . . .  "Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart" (Psalm 119:2 - NKJV) Ah yes . . . that we would in the new day "keep His testimonies" and "seek Him with (our) whole heart."...

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Man’s Significance

Note our text for the day taken from Psalm eight,   "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4 - NKJV)   The...

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A Most Serious Matter

A most serious matter . . . note this warning from Scripture,   "Every word of God is pure . . . Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar" (Proverbs 30:5-6 - NKJV)   There is a most serious matter at hand for the church of Jesus Christ in...

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The Lord Is Near

Our text for the day comes from the Psalms,   "The LORD (Yaweh) is near to all who call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. (Psalm 145:18 - NKJV)   We know that there are those who think there is no God. Then there are also those who think that God is far...

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Lest You Forget

From the book of Deuteronomy we read,   "Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God . . . lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are...

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Getting The Whole Confession Right!

The words of our Lord, from the gospel of John,   "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber . . . I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved ....

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And We End With “Amen”

Our text for this new day is from Psalm 106,   "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, 'Amen.'" (Psalm 106:48 - NASB)   Maybe you've seen it or heard it, for I have been in churches where the preacher...

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Some Thoughts On Grace

Grace . . . the apostle Paul writes of its importance in his letter to the church at Ephesus,   "For by grace you have been saved . . ." (Ephesians 2:8 - NASB)   There has been much written regarding this word "grace." Many great men and women of the faith have sought...

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Attaining To Good Counsel

From the book of Proverbs we read,   "Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days" (Proverbs 19:20 - NKJV)   I am of the mind that in this day in which you and I live we should diligently be teaching the Bible to our young...

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God’s Words Of Wisdom

Do you like the idea of being wise? Then let us look into the book of wisdom for some divine counsel,   "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid" (Proverbs 12:1 - NASB)   "Discipline" is not always a well-received thing. As...

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Positive “Shall Not’s” Of John’s Gospel

From the gospel of John we read a most familiar text,   "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16 - KJV)   What a wonderful verse to read and put to memory...

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Sexual Sin

Let's consider this passage from the letter to the church at Colosse,   "Consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed which amounts to idolatry." (Colossians 3:5 - NASB)   It is not over-kill to say that...

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Since You Have Been Raised . . . .

Do your thoughts in the morning turn to the Lord? Do you begin with thanking Him for giving you the physical strength to get up and get going, no matter the time of day or night when you are rising up? I would pray we all have such an inclination, for that would be...

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Eternal Life, A Quality Of Life

We raise up with praise in our heart and move it from there to our lips . . . Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for He is worthy to receive all honor, and glory, and praise! He is the Creator, the Sustainer, the All-powerful One, the sovereign...

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What Is An Evangelical?

What a wonderful thing the gospel is, a message of rescue, reconciliation, redemption . . .    "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things" (Romans 10:15 - NKJV)   This most encouraging verse is found in...

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The Old Rugged Cross

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . may He receive our heart-felt praise as we stop to contemplate the benefits He has bestowed upon us through the death and resurrection of His Son. It is a most...

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Learning From Judgment

"Give me understanding, that I may observe Thy law, and keep it with all my heart" (Psalm 119:34 - NASB) Oh to have understanding of God's "law" that we may "keep it" and so please Him who has saved us! Blessed be His name on this new day.   Note a most sobering text...

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Remembering The Cross

From Second Corinthians we read these blessed words,   "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (II Corinthians 5:21 - NASB)   As I prayed this morning I suddenly had a strong remembrance of the cross...

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Our God Is Able To Do Beyond . . .

We face many different situations and conditions as we go about a day, and within these situations and conditions we experience what are called ups and downs. We are an emotional creation, we who are of the human race. It can be that our day may well be all "ups" and...

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Secularism

Note with me what the apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians, chapter four,   "But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus." (Ephesians 20-21 - NASB)   Many things oppose the "truth" of the...

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Good Advice

From the book of First Chronicles we read,   "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind" (I Chronicles 28:9 - NASB)   You ever give out advice to someone? You know what I mean . . . it's when you say,...

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