Saturday, March 7, 2015

Psalm 139 NLT - Psalm 139 - For the choir director: A - Bible Gateway

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Psalm 139 New Living Translation (NLT)
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1 O Lord, you have examined my heart
    and know everything about me.
2 You know when I sit down or stand up.
    You know my thoughts even when I'm far away.
3 You see me when I travel
    and when I rest at home.
    You know everything I do.
4 You know what I am going to say
    even before I say it, Lord.
5 You go before me and follow me.
    You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too great for me to understand!
7 I can never escape from your Spirit!
    I can never get away from your presence!
8 If I go up to heaven, you are there;
    if I go down to the grave, you are there.
9 If I ride the wings of the morning,
    if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
    and your strength will support me.
11 I could ask the darkness to hide me
    and the light around me to become night—
12     but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
    Darkness and light are the same to you.
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
    and knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
    as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
    Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
    before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.
    They cannot be numbered!
18 I can't even count them;
    they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
    you are still with me!
19 O God, if only you would destroy the wicked!
    Get out of my life, you murderers!
20 They blaspheme you;
    your enemies misuse your name.
21 O Lord, shouldn't I hate those who hate you?
    Shouldn't I despise those who oppose you?
22 Yes, I hate them with total hatred,
    for your enemies are my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 Point out anything in me that offends you,
    and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Blessings,
--Stacy Duplease
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Friday, March 6, 2015

Do

1 Corinthians 10:31 New Living Translation (NLT)

³¹So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

New Living Translation (NLT)

Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

How am I bringing God glory in this moment?

~ Stacy Duplease
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

1 John 1:1 HCSB - Prologue: Our Declaration - What was - Bible Gateway

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%201:1&version=HCSB

1 John 1:1 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1 What was from the beginning,
what we have heard,
what we have seen with our eyes,
what we have observed
and have touched with our hands,
concerning the Word of life—

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Blessings,

--Stacy Duplease
http://RYPStories.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

1 John 1 TLB - Christ was alive when the world began, - Bible Gateway

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1 John 1 Living Bible (TLB)

1 Christ was alive when the world began, yet I myself have seen him with my own eyes and listened to him speak. I have touched him with my own hands. He is God's message of life. 2 This one who is life from God has been shown to us, and we guarantee that we have seen him; I am speaking of Christ, who is eternal Life. He was with the Father and then was shown to us. 3 Again I say, we are telling you about what we ourselves have actually seen and heard, so that you may share the fellowship and the joys we have with the Father and with Jesus Christ his son. 4 And if you do as I say in this letter, then you, too, will be full of joy, and so will we.

5 This is the message God has given us to pass on to you: that God is Light and in him is no darkness at all. 6 So if we say we are his friends but go on living in spiritual darkness and sin, we are lying. 7 But if we are living in the light of God's presence, just as Christ does, then we have wonderful fellowship and joy with each other, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth. 9 But if we confess our sins to him, he can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us because Christ died to wash away our sins.* 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we are lying and calling God a liar, for he says we have sinned.

Living Bible (TLB)

Blessings,

--Stacy Duplease
http://RYPStories.blogspot.com
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Why Failing at Lent — May be Succeeding at Lent? | A Holy Experience

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Blessings,

--Stacy Duplease
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Terror trainees: New ISIS video shows indoctrination of kids as young as 5

I thought you might be interested in this article:

The latest disturbing video from ISIS shows what the Islamist group touts as the next generation of jihadist killers, pint-sized terror trainees as young as 5 participating in drills and reciting verses from the Koran.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/23/terror-trainees-new-isis-video-shows-indoctrination-kids-as-young-as-5/

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~ Stacy Duplease
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Bible Verse of the Day

1 Corinthians 2:14-15Living Bible (TLB)

14 But the man who isn’t a Christian can’t understand and can’t accept these thoughts from God, which the Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound foolish to him because only those who have the Holy Spirit within them can understand what the Holy Spirit means. Others just can’t take it in. 15 But the spiritual man has insight into everything, and that bothers and baffles the man of the world, who can’t understand him at all.

Living Bible (TLB)

Christian and Prayer Journaling:

Answer each of the following and be thorough in your answer.

1 Journal your thoughts.

2 How does this verse and/or passage apply now to the world of terror?

3 What has God said to you as you read this and journal?

4 What have you said to God?

5 How can you apply this in your life today and how should you apply it?

Bible verse of the day

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+john+4%3A4-9&version=TLB

1 John 4:4-9 Living Bible (TLB)

4 Dear young friends, you belong to God and have already won your fight with those who are against Christ because there is someone in your hearts who is stronger than any evil teacher in this wicked world. 5 These men belong to this world, so, quite naturally, they are concerned about worldly affairs and the world pays attention to them. 6 But we are children of God; that is why only those who have walked and talked with God will listen to us. Others won't. That is another way to know whether a message is really from God; for if it is, the world won't listen to it.
7 Dear friends, let us practice loving each other, for love comes from God and those who are loving and kind show that they are the children of God, and that they are getting to know him better. 8 But if a person isn't loving and kind, it shows that he doesn't know God—for God is love.
9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through his death.

Living Bible (TLB)
The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Journal your thoughts.
What does this mean in our times of terror?
How can we apply this verse to our lives today?

Blessings,
--Stacy Duplease
http://RYPStories.blogspot.com
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