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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – July 31

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Finding Perfect Peace,

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Part 9,

“Living By God’s Precious Promises”

To read Part 1, click here… March 6th (How To Find Perfect Peace!)

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“Whereby are given unto us

exceeding great and precious promises:

that by these ye might be partakers

of the divine nature,

having escaped the corruption

that is in the world through lust.”

2nd Peter 1:4

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There is a current wave of popularity on the do-it-yourself channels, in which old houses are given a dramatic and beautiful make-over.

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And it’s truly remarkable how many of those old houses take on a brand-new appearance after some clever techniques are employed to give them a completely new look!

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House Fixer-upper in Eureka Cal. – Wikipedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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Well, how is my house?

Does it have a brand-new look?

Oh no, not my literal house!

No, but how is my spiritual house?

Does my spiritual house have a brand-new look about it?

Or is my spiritual house looking rather old and out-of-date?

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Question Marks – At a loss – svg – Wikimedia Commons – Share-Alike License

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PEACE WHICH PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING?

Philippians 4:7

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In other words, is my life filled with sins, turmoil and unrest?

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Well perhaps, that I have not yet achieved that perfect peace which God promises…

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,

whose mind is stayed on Thee…”

Isaiah 26:3

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Here is a precious promise for perfect peace: to keep our trusting eyes upon Jesus’ Word!

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Hair pulling stress – frustration – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

Human worry & stress & depression – by Becky Wetherington for Wikimedia – cropped image – Share-alike License

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“MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE”

Hosea 4:6

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There is a children’s song which goes like this…

…”How can you stand on the promises of God,

if you don’t know what they are?”

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USMC – Prayer before Bible study – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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“HEARTS OVERCHARGED…WITH CARES OF THIS LIFE, AND SO THAT DAY COME UPON YOU UNAWARES!”

Luke 21:34

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Unfortunately, we are living in a hedonistic, cornucopian super-society…

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…a day in which earthly-invested churchgoers are often too busy to sit down with our Bible and hide those precious promises in our hearts!

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As a result, we’ve allowed the faithless ways of Mankind to take precedence over the faith-filled ways of Heaven!

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Multitask – Wikimedia – C.C. Share-alike License

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And so, today’s devotional is an encouragement to all of us, to begin to do some real house-cleaning, renovating, and redecorating of our spiritual house!

A spiritual make-over of sorts!

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Exclamation Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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“PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YE DOUBLE MINDED!”

Philippians 4:8

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The very first task in giving our heart its much-needed spiritual make-over, is to begin to engage in some real house-cleaning!

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Yes, our spiritual house is cluttered to the point that we’re unable to even walk around without stumbling over some earthly maxim or worldly wisdom!

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Lego mess – Wikipedia – Creative Commons License

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“I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES!”

Psalm 101:3

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This is how we begin to clean up our spiritual house from all the worldly clutter which has become a great source of stumbling.

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And clearing out all the rotten timbers caused by being yoked together with the secular world…

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…secular television, radio, social media, magazines, novels, sensual music (even sensual “Christian” music) are a great place to begin such a house-renovation project!

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Graffiti on walls – Bodeguita del Medio, Havana – cropped image – Wikimedia – Share-alike License

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“THROUGH WISDOM, A HOUSE IS BUILDED”

Proverbs 24:3

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The second part of giving our house its spiritual make-over is to replace all that accumulated worldly-wisdom, replacing it with heavenly wisdom.

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Yes, Heaven’s ways are drastically different than the faithless ways of this Babylonish world!

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And 2nd Peter 1:4, speaks of, “the exceeding great and precious promises, that by these, ye may be able to escape the corruption of the world…”.

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And like “pictures of gold in settings of silver”, God’s promises should be hanging on the walls and corridors of our heart!

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“THY WORD HAVE I HID IN MY HEART”

Psalm 119:11

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And the very Good News is, that God is graciously allowing us enough time to get things corrected and right!

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And considering the lateness of the hour, let’s each begin to allow His Word to fill our hearts with light and truth, that we no more walk in the faithless ways of this Babylonish world!

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US Navy – Chaplain Lt. Jason Gregory reads Bible on weather deck – Wikimedia – US Govt. Public Domain

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OUR DAILY BATTLE

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Perhaps, while lying in bed, thinking back on how we might have overcome that big or little attack by the Devil…

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…”Just what ‘exceeding great and precious promises’ might I have employed today?”

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The armor of God – theheavensdeclare.net -use by permission only

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TO READ PART 10, GO HERE… 

August 18 (Finding Perfect Peace, Part 10, “World’s Most Unpopular Antidepressant!”)

ABOVE PICTURE: Holy Bible – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Lic.

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Slow me down, so that I take time each day to hide Thy precious promises in my heart…

…knowing that You will be faithful to remind my faulty memory of them, at just the time when they are needed…

Woman Praying – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read…November 2nd (What’s In Your House?)

…or, you may also read…“FEBRUARY 27 (Our Most Holy Place: “Proper Care & Maintenance”)”

Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license

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THE END

 

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FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN

 

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FLOWER OF THE FIELD CONSTELLATION…

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This Flower of the Field Constellation (a.k.a., “Scorpio”) can best be seen in spring through summer in the southern sky just above the horizon.

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Like all constellations, it slowly moves westward through the months, appearing a little earlier each night.

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It also appears to move through the sky westward each night.

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It can be easily seen under any degree of darkness.

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READ MORE…

To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Flower of the Field Constellation”

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TOMORROW:

August 1 (Eternal Torment? Part 29: “What & Where is Hell?”)

Welcome To Hell – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

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The Open Forum Talk Show with Harold Camping 

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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THIS TALK SHOW – – The Open Forum Harold Camping May 14, 2002 (youtube.com)

Harold-Camping – courtesy Family Radio

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