Monthly Archives: January 2024

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Jump Start # 3497

Jump Start # 3497 Matthew 6:34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Our verse today, coming from the Lord’s grand sermon on the mount, ends a section about worry. Five times the Lord tells His followers not to worry. Worry doesn’t […]

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Jump Start # 3496

Jump Start # 3496 Psalms 11:7 “The Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; the upright will behold His face.” Out of the thirteen words in this sentence, three of them are about being right. Righteous, righteousness and the upright. God is that way. God loves that way. There is a benefit to being righteous, one […]

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Jump Start # 3495

Jump Start # 3495 1 Kings 22:37-38 “So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buied the king in Samaria. They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the Lord which He spoke.” […]

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Jump Start # 3494

Jump Start # 3494 1 Kings 18:21 “Elijah came near to all the people and said, ‘How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.’ But the people did not answer him a word.” The story is told of a man who lived long […]

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Jump Start # 3493

Jump Start # 3493 Genesis 27:42 “Now when the words of the elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent and called her younger son Jacob, and said to him, ‘Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.” One of the sad and disheartening things we find in […]