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Vicki Stephens-Parent

afor you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.For this is contained in Scripture: "aBEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A bPRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."aThis precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, "bTHE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS cREJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,"and, "aA STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE";But you are aA CHOSEN RACE, A royal bPRIESTHOOD, A cHOLY NATION, dA PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you eout of darkness into His marvelous light;

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 1 Peter 2:1-5 NASB

Therefore, aputting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all bslander,alike newborn babies, long for the bpure milk of the word, so that by it you may cgrow in respect to salvation,if you have atasted bthe kindness of the Lord.And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been arejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,ayou also, as living stones, are being built up as a bspiritual house for a holy cpriesthood, to doffer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 1 Peter 1:18 NASB

knowing that you were not aredeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your bfutile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:1 NASB

After these things there was aa feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:21-23 NASB

"For just as the Father raises the dead and agives them life, even so bthe Son also gives life to whom He wishes."For not even the Father judges anyone, but aHe has given all judgment to the Son,so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. aHe who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:20 NASB

"aFor the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him bgreater works than these, so that you will marvel.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:19 NASB

Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, athe Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:15-18 NASB

The man went away, and told athe Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.For this reason athe Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.But He answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working."For this reason therefore athe Jews bwere seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, cmaking Himself equal with God.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:14 NASB

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "Behold, you have become well; do not asin anymore, bso that nothing worse happens to you."

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:11-13 NASB

But he answered them, "He who made me well was the one who said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and walk.'"They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and walk'?"But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:10 NASB

So athe Jews were saying to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath, and bit is not permissible for you to carry your pallet."

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:4 NASB

for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:5-9 NASB

A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, "Do you wish to get well?"The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when athe water is stirred up, but while I am coming, another steps down before me."Jesus said to him, "aGet up, pick up your pallet and walk."Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted John 5:2-3 NASB

Now there is in Jerusalem by athe sheep gate a pool, which is called bin Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;

Oct 13

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 1 John 5:14-15 NASB

This is athe confidence which we have before Him, that, bif we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, awe know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

Oct 9

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 1 John 3:21-24 NASB

aBeloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have bconfidence before God;and awhatever we ask we receive from Him, because we bkeep His commandments and do cthe things that are pleasing in His sight.This is His commandment, that we abelieve in bthe name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as cHe commanded us.The one who akeeps His commandments babides in Him, and He in him. cWe know by this that dHe abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

Oct 9

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Malachi 1:3 NASB

but I have hated Esau, and I have amade his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness."

Oct 6

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Malachi 1:2 NASB

"I have aloved you," says the Lord. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the Lord. "Yet I bhave loved Jacob;

Oct 6

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted Malachi 1:1 NASB

The aoracle of the word of the Lord to bIsrael through Malachi.

Oct 6

Vicki Stephens-Parent

highlighted 1 Kings 17:15 NASB

So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days.

Oct 6

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