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Joan

Just as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works.

Nov 10

But if you refuse to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted Psalms 18:46 NLT

The LORD lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted Psalms 18:30-31 NLT

God’s way is perfect. All the LORD’s promises prove true. He is a shield for all who look to him for protection. For who is God except the LORD? Who but our God is a solid rock?

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted Psalms 18:22-25 NLT

I have followed all his regulations; I have never abandoned his decrees. I am blameless before God; I have kept myself from sin. The LORD rewarded me for doing right. He has seen my innocence. To the faithful you show yourself faithful; to those with integrity you show integrity.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted Psalms 18:21 NLT

For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not turned from my God to follow evil.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted Psalms 18:20 NLT

The LORD rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence.

Nov 10

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highlighted Psalms 18:6 NLT

But in my distress I cried out to the LORD; yes, I prayed to my God for help. He heard me from his sanctuary; my cry to him reached his ears.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted Psalms 18:1-3 NLT

I love you, LORD; you are my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. I called on the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and he saved me from my enemies.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 31:11-13 NLT

But when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, all their mighty warriors traveled through the night to Beth-shan and took the bodies of Saul and his sons down from the wall. They brought them to Jabesh, where they burned the bodies. Then they took their bones and buried them beneath the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 31:8-10 NLT

They placed his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and they fastened his body to the wall of the city of Beth-shan. The next day, when the Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Mount Gilboa. So they cut off Saul’s head and stripped off his armor. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death in their pagan temple and to the people throughout the land of Philistia.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 31:2-6 NLT

The Philistines closed in on Saul and his sons, and they killed three of his sons—Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malkishua. The fighting grew very fierce around Saul, and the Philistine archers caught up with him and wounded him severely. Saul groaned to his armor bearer, “Take your sword and kill me before these pagan Philistines come to run me through and taunt and torture me.” But his armor bearer was afraid and would not do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. When his armor bearer realized that Saul was dead, he fell on his own sword and died beside the king. So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and his troops all died together that same day.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:24 NLT

Who will listen when you talk like this? We share and share alike—those who go to battle and those who guard the equipment.”

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:25 NLT

From then on David made this a decree and regulation for Israel, and it is still followed today.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:22-23 NLT

But some evil troublemakers among David’s men said, “They didn’t go with us, so they can’t have any of the plunder we recovered. Give them their wives and children, and tell them to be gone.” But David said, “No, my brothers! Don’t be selfish with what the LORD has given us. He has kept us safe and helped us defeat the band of raiders that attacked us.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:17-19 NLT

David and his men rushed in among them and slaughtered them throughout that night and the entire next day until evening. None of the Amalekites escaped except 400 young men who fled on camels. David got back everything the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued his two wives. Nothing was missing: small or great, son or daughter, nor anything else that had been taken. David brought everything back.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:14-15 NLT

We were on our way back from raiding the Kerethites in the Negev, the territory of Judah, and the land of Caleb, and we had just burned Ziklag.” “Will you lead me to this band of raiders?” David asked. The young man replied, “If you take an oath in God’s name that you will not kill me or give me back to my master, then I will guide you to them.”

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:7-8 NLT

Then he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring me the ephod!” So Abiathar brought it. Then David asked the LORD, “Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?” And the LORD told him, “Yes, go after them. You will surely recover everything that was taken from you!”

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:1-4 NLT

Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground. They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone. When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families, they wept until they could weep no more.

Nov 10

Joan

highlighted 1 Samuel 30:6 NLT

David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

Nov 10

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