Joan
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Joan
highlighted Numbers 20:8 NLT
“You and Aaron must take the staff and assemble the entire community. As the people watch, speak to the rock over there, and it will pour out its water. You will provide enough water from the rock to satisfy the whole community and their livestock.”
May 13
Joan
highlighted Numbers 18:23 NLT
Only the Levites may serve at the Tabernacle, and they will be held responsible for any offenses against it. This is a permanent law for you, to be observed from generation to generation. The Levites will receive no allotment of land among the Israelites,
May 13
Joan
highlighted Acts 14:23 NLT
Paul and Barnabas also appointed elders in every church. With prayer and fasting, they turned the elders over to the care of the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
May 13
Joan
highlighted Acts 14:21 NLT
After preaching the Good News in Derbe and making many disciples, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch of Pisidia,
May 13
Joan
highlighted Acts 14:22 NLT
where they strengthened the believers. They encouraged them to continue in the faith, reminding them that we must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.
May 13
Joan
highlighted Acts 17:12 NLT
As a result, many Jews believed, as did many of the prominent Greek women and men.
May 13
Joan
highlighted Acts 17:11 NLT
And the people of Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, and they listened eagerly to Paul’s message. They searched the Scriptures day after day to see if Paul and Silas were teaching the truth.
May 13
Joan
highlighted James 5:16 NLT
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.
May 13
Joan
highlighted John 3:21 NLT
But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”
May 12
Joan
highlighted John 3:20 NLT
All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.
May 12
Joan
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 5:8-10 NLT
Christ died for us so that, whether we are dead or alive when he returns, we can live with him forever. But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation. For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us.
May 12
Joan
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 NLT
But you aren’t in the dark about these things, dear brothers and sisters, and you won’t be surprised when the day of the Lord comes like a thief. For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night.
May 12
Joan
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 5:2 NLT
For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.
May 12
Joan
highlighted 1 Thessalonians 5:6 NLT
So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be clearheaded.
May 12
Joan
highlighted Isaiah 48:11-14 NLT
I will rescue you for my sake— yes, for my own sake! I will not let my reputation be tarnished, and I will not share my glory with idols!“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last. It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth, my right hand that spread out the heavens above. When I call out the stars, they all appear in order.” Have any of your idols ever told you this? Come, all of you, and listen: The LORD has chosen Cyrus as his ally. He will use him to put an end to the empire of Babylon and to destroy the Babylonian armies.
May 12
Joan
highlighted Isaiah 48:1 NLT
“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and born into the family of Judah. Listen, you who take oaths in the name of the LORD and call on the God of Israel. You don’t keep your promises,
May 12
Joan
highlighted Isaiah 48:10 NLT
I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.
May 12