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GLORY IN NO HUMAN TEACHER, BUT ONLY IN THE POWER OF GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 2:4-5 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power. ELLICOTT'S COMMENTARY The Apostle...

MAY THE LORD JUDGE BETWEEN YOU AND ME1 SAMUEL 24:12 May the LORD judge between you and me. And may the LORD avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you.MATTHEW POOLE'S COMMENTARY if thou dost persist in thy injurious and cruel designs against me.GILL'S EXPOSITION if he c...

When you finally learn a person’s behavior has more to do with their own internal struggle than it ever did with you... You learn Grace.I love this definition of grace... simple elegance or refinement of movement.

THINK! EPHESIANS 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to "their" needs, that it may benefit those who listen. MATTHEW HENRY'S COMMENTARY Filthy words proceed from corruption in the speaker, and they corrupt the min...

THE CAUSE OF CHRIST 1 CHRONICLES 12:17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers lo...

BE INTENTIONALDEFINITION of INTENTIONAL deliberate, conscious, intended, planned, meant, studied, knowing, willful, purposeful, purposive, done on purposeMATTHEW 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ELLICOTT'S COMMENTARY One who...

SUCH IS THEIR INHUMANITY PSALM 22:7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.   BENSON COMMENTARY Instead of pitying, or helping, they deride and insult over me: such is their inhumanity.

THE YEAR OF THE LORD'S FAVORISAIAH 6161 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,because the Lord has anointed meto proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim freedom for the captivesand release from darkness for the prisoners,2 to proclaim the year of...

PERPLEXING OR ANXIOUS THOUGHTSPSALM 94:19 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.ELLICOTT'S COMMENTARY “perplexing” or “anxious” thoughts BENSON COMMENTARY Thy promises, contained in thy word, and the remembrance of my former experience of thy care and kindness to me, a...

HE HIMSELF WILL COME, AND WILL DELIVER YOU ISAIAH 35:4 Tell everyone who is discouraged, "Be strong and don't be afraid! God is coming to your rescue, coming to punish your enemies."  BARNES' NOTES He himself will come, and will deliver you.