Someone asked me that question the other day and I think it’s one worth pursuing. Although courage seems elusive, it doesn’t have to be.
What a cute image this is! A small kitten sees itself as a powerful lion. We cannot read their minds, but if felines are anything like people, we know that before the eyes can picture the fierceness, the mind has to project the image that there is greatness inside to transform us.
And that’s where the answer begins for us as well. How do we become courageous? As always, my thoughts go to the scriptures for the answer. Most of us remember that Joshua was told to “be strong and courageous”. Let’s talk about him and see how Joshua accomplished strength and courage and what was accomplished in his life, and the lives of millions, as a result.
#1: Joshua heard and believed he was equipped.
When God spoke to Joshua about being strong and courageous, God promised that He would be with him as He had been with Moses. And God told Joshua to keep the Word forever in front of him. (Joshua 1, NKJV)
Joshua, a man unable to be born again or filled with the Spirit of God as new testament believers are, knew how to hear the voice of God. Do you wonder how? The answer is in Exodus 33:11. “And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.”
Joshua learned to hear the voice of God and remained in the presence of God after the leader, Moses, returned to camp. Moses, who heard God clearly, had taught Joshua to hear God as well.
#2: Joshua spoke and expected.
In the Book of Joshua, the historical account of all that Joshua accomplished (and he did everything God said he would) there are multiple accounts to demonstrate that Joshua spoke and expected God to respond with answers. The walls of Jericho fell when Joshua spoke and explained God’s direction for that victory to the people.
Chapter 10 talks about how Joshua wanted to finish the battle before nightfall so he boldly said to the Israelites and to God, that the sun and the moon should stand still. Even though Joshua did not have his science right, God honored his word and the sun stayed in the sky without nightfall for nearly a day. The battle was a victory.
We could summarize Joshua’s life this way: He spent time in the presence of God and got instruction. He was familiar with God’s voice and believed that God had equipped His people to accomplish what He told them to do. Once Joshua heard from God, he spoke and acted on the Words.
So how do we “be courageous”? The same way: Hear and believe God has equipped you. Speak and expect to see God’s instructions come to pass.
What will be the results?
“Courage is what you earn through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.” -Malcolm Gladwell.
I spoke to someone who had been “dealt” a widow card. Her husband was no longer in the picture. I had that experience, more than a decade ago now, but I still remember some things from a similar conversation.
This post is only about grace. There’s no condemnation in it. The words that we speak can be unwise if they aren’t covered with grace.
Almost every human interaction meets that criteria at some point, or several moments over time in the relationship.
Today’s conversation really started the day of the funeral. Funerals are confusing things, with traditional protocol sometimes and sometimes not. They are also confusing for the people in front of the family, never knowing what, if anything, to say.
At this funeral, friends of her husband wanted to honor him by helping the widow with jobs that would need to be done that her husband could no longer do. That is a noble thing.
And in the middle of her grief, not remembering half of what she heard that day, the widow remembered the man who said, “If you ever need help, it would be my honor to help you in those things he would have done.”
There’s a thing about funeral home promises. They have short shelf lives. That is not intentional. It is the reaction to the confusion and the loss. It is well-meant. It is kindness.
The widow believed that meant “forever”. She grabbed onto that statement like a lifeboat.
And months later when there had never been a follow-up, there was an opportunity for the enemy to attach itself to her mind and she became hurt and offended.
After a while, that offense turned bitter. And when she saw the man who had made the statement, there was a dislike where there had never been one before.
She is cold toward him and thinks he is clueless as to why. I believe she was right. Because he doesn’t remember what he said.
He needs grace and forgiveness for speaking without considering the impact of the words he spoke “at the moment.”
It’s not easy to tell someone who is hurting that unforgiveness hurts them. But, perhaps there’s no better time. Because she has grief mixed with offense, she is struggling to move forward.
When we go to the courts of God with supplication, I’m being taught by the Holy Spirit that I also must include asking for a heart and mind change for the people in the situation. The Holy Spirit has to be the voice of grace in every situation.
It is impossible to look to a loving God with strife in a wounded heart.
A more reasonable, and still thoughtful statement may have been for the man to say, “After you’ve had a chance to rest, call me in the next week or so if there’s anything I can help with.” because his kind intention couldn’t become a lifetime commitment, but that’s how it was perceived. Grace comes when we think before we speak.
Forgiveness is freeing. It is a choice that honors God. Will everyone make it? That would be amazing!
Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to speak through us when we are in situations where we have no idea what to say. Because He knows.
I’m tired of living. I really want to die. I pray to die. I did so again this morning, actually.
Why? Because I am the most blessed woman in the world. There is not a need God doesn’t meet for me. At the age of 68, my Father directed me to move to a town I had only visited once before.
I have met some of the most amazing people in this city. They are easy to love and many of them care about and for me. My pastors and leaders are people who know God and love God and desire to see His power demonstrated. And that makes me want to die even more.
I have a “job” that I asked God for a decade ago. The job didn’t exist when I asked. It does now, and I get good reviews from my supervisor, and the Holy Spirit goes before me and I see God at work in the words He speaks through me. That makes me more determined that I have to, I simply must die.
Why? Because there is more to me than I’m living. And to get to the more, I have to die.
I have spent most of my waking time the last 48 hours praying to be so dead to myself that all I can see is the expression on the Lord’s face. If I can picture the face of the Lord as children die from a disease He bore in His crucifixion, perhaps I will not leave the courts of God until that child is healed.
If I can see Him laugh when an addict is set free and learns about how much God has for Him, then maybe it will be impossible for me to think it’s okay to let them struggle with something they never intended to experience.
If I can see the Lord’s expression when people who have been born again for decades say, “I wonder if God even cares about me”, then maybe I will put a hand on their shoulder and pull them into me and cry with them until they have absorbed His love.
I cannot go another day without dying to myself. Because everything that breaks the Lord’s heart is something that He defeated when He died to Himself. His “nevertheless” is the remedy for any disease. For addiction. For a lack of knowledge that God loves.
As long as part of me continues to live and rule my soul and my mind, the distractions can keep me from giving out what He has put in me.
As long as I live to myself, I will live with a form of godliness in me, but the Christ in me will be denied the ability to work through me. His power will lay dormant within me. Cancer will win. Families will lose hope. Jesus will return and some will be surprised to find there was a life for them that they never knew existed.
He who has died has been cleared from sin. From the lack of concern for others. From the busyness that distracts. May the words be true, “Now it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.”
There’s a scripture that talks about giving. Jesus said when we give it will be given “good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.”
But have you ever experienced those times when you have given, but there was no apparent return and your mind was scattered, your heart was shattered and it was more like your circumstances were not good measure, your money was hard pressed, your confidence was shaken, and your tears were running over? Yes. I can relate. More than once? Me, too! Maybe even now? Read on.
It’s interesting, really. Humans spend much of their time waiting. Sometimes we wait for things we choose to wait for and sometimes not. Who likes to sit in a room waiting for an appointment that was supposed to be 42 minutes ago? That’s less than an hour, yet we wait days for our Amazon orders. We wait for our best friend to text back. We wait in crowded restaurant lobbies to get food that’s crazy expensive and way too weight-challenging, then there’s the famous “I’ll wait for the Black Friday sale”. Many times we accept that “waiting is just part of life.”
In the course of our lives, humans rarely expect an instant turnaround. Until we pray.
The Bible has several accounts of God’s “rescue” that came just in time, and not necessarily when we ask, but He said He is God Who does not lie, Who does not change His Mind. God was not standing outside the furnace to stop His Hebrew boys from being thrown in, but even a pagan monarch recognized His presence in the fire.
A few million grumbling Israelites ran out of food, and in the middle of their grumbling about missing Egypt’s onions God provided food for them that had never been seen before. (I’m thinking it was flavored like Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but it nourished entire families who were of varying ages and weights, and strengths. For years. Decades.)
There are several other examples. Abram and Sarai became Abraham and Sarah when they were “fully persuaded”, years and years after God had promised them a “seed” of their own household. A son.
Before they were fully persuaded, they looked at the apparent impossibilities of their ability to conceive what God promised. They came up with an alternative solution that could be accomplished in a way they could understand and have hope in. The nations of Ishmael are still Israel’s problem child.
There has always been waiting. The Bible calls it by a couple different names. “Seed, time, and harvest” “the fullness of time”. Creation took days. God gave 120 years of building time for an ark so people would have time to repent. We don’t care much about the time spent and recorded in the Bible, but when it comes to our immediate needs, we get in a panic even after we pray.
Why? Because anxiety and fear cover our belief that God’s Word is absolute. Truth is absolute. (That’s why nothing except the Word of God in the Bible can be called Truth.) Jesus Himself, while He prayed the night before His death, said “Sanctify them by Your Truth. Your Word is Truth. (Emphasis mine.)
Jesus also confirmed that He is Truth, but that’s another blog for another day.
It is only a few religious sects that teach that we can’t know if we’re saved, but most of us never look with trepidation and “what if’s” when it comes to our eternal destiny. Once we acknowledge that Jesus is the Christ and make our confession of faith (Romans 10:9,10, 13) most of us never spend any time wondering if God will keep His promise that we are saved “in Christ”.
But often a temporary natural circumstance will throw our belief system in a tailspin. Why? Because we either are not familiar with God’s covenant promises to us “in Christ” or we make the things we look at daily larger than God’s Word.
One bill with an upcoming due date can make us doubt God. One symptom under our skin makes us doubt either His ability or His willingness. One report that someone “passed” or went “bankrupt” makes every Word of God null and void in our belief that His promises to us in Christ are “yes”. His Word says if we ask anything according to His Will, then He hears us (1 John 5:14) and that He will supply our needs if we put Him first (Matthew 6:33). I wonder then, at times when panic strikes … Do we not trust Him or do we base His expected kindness on our current worthiness?
That’s a question we each have to answer.
Every time we wonder “Did He really say … ?” the tempter rises again like he did in the garden. Like he did in Jesus’s temptation. “If” You are the Son of God … “
Think about the two different responses in those situations. Eve used misinformation to form an opinion and Jesus said, “It is written”. Eve had nothing to be absolute about and Jesus knew His Father. So I have to acknowledge this to be true. If I doubt a situation, I do not consider God’s Word absolute in that area.
Absolute: Adjective
1)Not qualified or diminished in any way; total.
2) Viewed independently and not in relation to other things; not relative or comparative.
In other words, we either believe Him or we don’t. God’s Word cannot be questioned and compared to the situation or experience. He is either Truth or He is not. God nor His Word can be divided into compartments and still be called Truth. God is Who He said He is. As Mark Hankins said in a public Facebook post,
Even in physical death, His Word has given us a promise. When Jesus stood before Martha as they looked toward the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus told her that even those who are considered dead, in Him, they will never die. Even if we are separated from someone we love, we believe we will see them alive again.
Absolutely. In every way, we can trust Him. In the courts of His kingdom, God has sworn by Himself and His Word, to tell the Truth, the whole Truth, nothing but the Truth.
Prepared is an adjective that means 1) Made ready for use, and 2) ready to do or deal with something.
To start a blog with a definition seems a tad random until we put it into the context of the conversation. Today’s topic stems from a new preoccupation I have with 1 Corinthians 2. I pause between sentences and find some great truth in this chapter that excites me. Let’s look at what Paul quotes in verse 9.
But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
The original language would have this read like this:
Eye nor ear has perceived, neither has the heart of man received, the knowledge of the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.
The original intent seems to be that we humans cannot visualize what God has committed to do for us or has made available and ready for us to use.
When we look at the image above, we can clearly see the beauty God has made available to us in His creation. We can also see evidence that God has given intelligence, gifts, and talents to men as we look at the boat and the surrounding creations of men intermingling with God’s far superior handiwork.
With the limitations of our imaginations, we cannot see the eternal life that this chapter refers to. For believers, eternal life starts at the new birth. (See John 5:24, John 6:47, and my personal favorite, John 17:1-3)
So what has God prepared for believers? Is it still a mystery to you as Paul said it is? The promise of His provision. Every good thing God has ever promised is ours, in Christ. In our new birth. “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.” Has. Done deal. Finished work.
So how do we know what He has provided? Pray. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you! God has plans for you. God has a purpose for you. God has prepared so much for you. Let Him whisper what all that is. Ask.
As I considered this week’s blog, tornado warning signals were blaring. There was notification heard throughout the city that imminent danger was likely. The storm sirens were installed at some point after a history of frightening events.
There were no warning sirens in Jericho when Joshua’s two spies arrived in town. But there was a warning system in place of some sort, based on a history of frightening events. Let’s look back.
Forty years before where we pick up, Moses had sent in 12 spies to see what their land was like. Ten spies said, “Oh, that’s a great land, and it is true that milk and honey flow and that produce is incredible. It’s so incredible that two men have to carry it. The problem is some of those men are giants so we’d best stay out of there.”
God had called that “an evil report of unbelief”. Now it was time to see how the land had changed in four decades so Joshua sent in two spies. They encountered Rahab. She was a veritable fountain of information.
The previous generation’s spies went back and told Moses the men were giants and the spies were like grasshoppers in the giant’s eyes. Years later Rahab let these two spies know that the reverse was true.
“I know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. Joshua 2:9-11
Jericho’s king sent word to Rahab because he knew the spies had gone to her house. He wanted her to turn over the men to him because he knew they had come to spy out the land. Instead of obeying her king, Rahab made a choice to protect the spies God had sent. When the men the king had sent were gone, Rahab went to the roof where she had hidden the two spies. The conversation was a plea.
The interesting thing about this plea was that Rahab was not in a covenant with God as the spies were. Rahab had no right to ask any favor of these men even though she had helped them. Because she had no covenant. She was asking for protection in the covenant the spies were in even though she did not know their God. By choosing to help God’s people, Rahab partook of the covenant the spies were living in and benefiting from.
Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true token, 13 and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.” Joshua 2: 12,13
The rest of Joshua 2 explains the conditional covenant the spies and Rahab entered into. If Rahab would let down a scarlet rope from the window she lowered them to freedom from, when the Israelites came to take the city her family would be preserved.
What would it be like to know men were coming to destroy your lifestyle and even take the lives of your family? Even the king was expecting destruction, and destruction would come. They all knew the God of Israel was going to give victory to His people.
But Rahab had peace while in the middle of trouble. She could look at the scarlet rope and hear the promise of the covenant. Rahab became part of the covenant and the covenant changed her destiny. Rahab became one of the women named in the lineage of Jesus. In the natural, she was unqualified. In God’s plan, she was part of the deliverance.
If we are “in Christ” we become part of Christ’s covenant with the Father. Without Christ, we are unqualified. In Him, we are as much a covenant son as Jesus is, whether we are women or men. In Christ, the terms of our covenant are equal to that of Jesus.
(If you read this and aren’t sure if you’re “in Christ”, email me: forhisglory1000@gmail.com)
God said to Adam “Who told you that you were naked?”
In Genesis 3, God’s first question to Adam was “Where are you?” The first human since creation, who had walked with God daily, had hidden from God because as soon as he tasted the fruit, Adam knew something was different.
Adam had never experienced shame until sin came. I’ve read this account many times, including verse 7, where “they sewed leaves together” and have never considered this. Who taught them how to sew?
The only other voice they heard was the voice they yielded to that brought sin. It was the same voice that told them to hide. It seems reasonable to believe that Satan would have told them how to cover themselves. They were now spiritually separated from God’s glory over them. They wanted to do something about it. “Make some clothes. God may not see it.”
I wonder if there was a bitter aftertaste from the fruit.
How deceptive to think we can hide from God. I think all of us can look back to a time when we knew we had done something that was going to change everything. An action that opened our conscience to a satanic, gleeful voice that tells us our covering is removed, that God wants nothing more to do with us, or at least He won’t once He knows what we’ve done.
There’s a rapid intake of heaviness on our souls when we sin. We want to hide. Our spirit tells us “Something is different”. Something feels yucky. Have you ever wished you didn’t have to be around you? And we change from people who enjoyed the mere thought of being with God to people who both dread that He will come to talk to us about it and fear that He won’t.
I know it is the enemy who tells me I’m naked and exposed to God when I sin. It is the enemy who says, “Cover up and hide”. So when God asks where I am and who told me I am naked, my confession has to be “The devourer”, for that is the intention of Satan, to separate me from God based on my behavior. He wants to devour my security in God’s Fatherhood because I’ve blown it (again).
What the enemy does not remind me of is this: I wasn’t covered in God’s presence based on my behavior before I messed up. Then, and now, I am covered in God’s presence based on the behavior of Jesus. Now what? Do I spend my days walking around in spiritual nakedness or do I re-consider the question and change the outcome?
The truth is that the one who told me I’m naked is the father of liars, according to Jesus Himself. (John 8:44)
Jesus became sin so that I might be made righteous. I was and am reconciled to God through the blood of His cross. (Colossians 1:20) That’s mercy seat blood. That’s covenant blood. And according to Ephesians 1: 19, God has extended that covenant redemption to every believer, and that is an “exceeding greatness power”, the greatest power in the Universe.
That power is Truth. It is the promise of God’s faithfulness. In the blood of the covenant, it’s not me who’s naked, but it’s the liar who tries to sell me leaves.
Have you ever sat in a church during the offering and felt “less than” because you were already wondering if you had enough gas money until the next paycheck? I have good news…
How many times have we Christians been asked to give, to partner with, the gospel? How many of those times were when we would have if we could, but we didn’t have money (or at least heard the voice of logic in our mind that says we shouldn’t give)?
Hang with me. I’m asking for a reason. Second Corinthians Chapters 8 and 9 talk about giving financially. There are promises for those who give, and God is faithful in all things! So I spent years wishing I could give (I was a single mom in a one-income family) more than a tithe. But, I was faithful to tithe, and I always, then and now, make my offerings the first thing that comes out of my account.
Choosing to do my tithe and offerings first does a couple things for me. One is me saying, “Father, I will put You first in all things. ” Another benefit to me doing it that way is there’s no opportunity for the enemy to attack my mind with “You really don’t have the money to spare this week.” Once you partner with God in giving, the enemy rubs his hands together and pokes around in your head.
In 2 Corinthians Chapter 8, we find a gem hidden in Paul’s discussion of giving. In verse 8, Paul says he is not speaking by commandment but is testing the Corinthians’ love by the diligence of other congregations. Paul then reminds them that Christ gave up all His wealth so His people could become rich through His poverty. No, that is not merely spiritual wealth. Remember those wise men who brought gifts to Him when He was a toddler? The value of those gifts assured Jesus was never without abundant financial resources.
In verse 12 of that chapter, Paul says, “For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.”
This is such great news! God is not into condemning folks for not being able to give. If God sees that our heart is willing, He will then (if we ask) provide for us in the future to give what our heart desires. What a beautiful revelation of God’s provision. In verses 10 and 11, Paul says to them that once God provides what we wanted to give, we should follow through on our earlier desires and give.
What happens when we begin to give or sow (like a seed) finances to God’s purpose and plan to accomplish His will on earth? Paul answers that in Chapter 9 of the same book as he prays for those who give. Remember, it started with a want-to heart, and God supplied as we asked. THEN, the promise is found in the prayer.
Verse 10 and 11 of chapter 9, “Now, may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.”
What is the answer, then? God looks on the sincere heart, even when the resources aren’t there, and provides some seed to sow so that when we give that seed, He multiplies it back so that we have a harvest. As we continue to sow seed, just like any good farmer will tell you, the harvest is determined when we plant.
God increases our ability to sow as our heart grows in the grace of financial giving. As Mark Hankins says, “If you become addicted to giving, God will support your habit.”
Jesus said it this way in Luke 6:38 .Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. With the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Sowing starts in the heart. God sees and supplies. The seed comes, and the harvest will always be greater than the number of seeds sown.
When earthly hope exists, disappointments will come. When we are anticipating good things, we may encounter the opposite things. We sometimes are disappointed.
People are prone to imperfection. Situations are prone to change. Plans are subject to being modified, and sometimes these changes come quickly without much notice. Surprise and then disappointment is often the result. Raise your hand if you’ve ever been disappointed in people, places or things! (I wonder if that is why “disappointment” is a noun)
I’m not talking in this post about the “hope that does not disappoint.” (Romans 5:5). There is a hope (a confident expectation in the Lord) that cannot disappoint because it is the love of God that is put in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. I’m talking about those disappointments the enemy brings to our mind when our plans fall through, or our expectations aren’t met, or things just aren’t what we want them to be.
I’m convinced that disappointment is one of the major tools of the enemy. Although satan isn’t able to be the cause of every disappointment of every person on the planet, he is quite adept at seeing them and using them to slink into our minds like a snake on a hot rock. He brings some “if”s. If God is so good, then why? If they love you, then how? and we soon become more focused on the disappointment than we do on the good things we still have in our lives.
What’s the answer then? Disappointments come and very often, our loving Father and Savior get the blame. How do we counteract that? The first and major way to dive successfully and victoriously into the fray of our mind is Truth. God does not allow evil. God does not cause evil. God is not the god of this world. If we are His, if we are “in Christ”, then we are not of this world and our spiritual enemy is committing illegal acts against God’s children. So, let’s turn it…
I had a major first victory over disappointment recently with a new method. This method gave me great satisfaction and anticipation of a turnaround of my emotions. Are you ready? Here goes:
“Father, will You please take this disappointment and use it to bring Your glory into the lives of all who are involved?”
That simple prayer brings excitement that something good is going to come out of our disappointment and the thinking of that “good thing” removes the sting. That simple prayer spells defeat to the one who wants us to struggle with, and give in to, disappointment. Picturing that God is changing something ugly into something that will cause our enemy a defeat is greater in us than the disappointment we started with.
People are drawn to the ocean. It is larger than we can contain in our eyes. It is grander than we can conceive. We cannot measure its waters nor count its sands. The ocean contains life so small we need a microscope to see it and so large we think it could swallow us without ever stopping to eat. Interestingly, God created a whale with a throat that limits its swallowing capacity to that of a grapefruit, according to that great science expert Google.
What, then, is the draw of the ocean? For me, the ocean represents God’s power to create something that is larger than words can easily describe and no human can replicate. The ocean is God’s evidence of His vision in, His demonstration of, and His limitless power toward His favorite of all creation, even greater than the world’s oceans, mankind.
There are people who flock to the beaches to put human feet in their warm sands, to stand at its edge as the waves push against the boundaries while soaking the toes of those who stand and wait. Yet, many of those people do not consider the source of the magnificence, the Creator Himself.
In the creation account, the land rose out of the water when God called it out. God envisioned a world where His creation could walk to the water’s edge, be soaked in the waves and admire His handiwork. He spoke everything into existence before He created the first family to live in it. From the beginning, God was extravagant. God’s heart is large toward us, and it has always been so.
When sin was destroying mankind, as sin always will, in the “fullness of time”, God sent His Son. The life of Jesus demonstrated God’s love, compassion, largeness and power toward us. The death of Jesus when His sinless body had encapsulated sin, after His brutal, torturous crucifixion, demonstrated the lengths of brutality God would endure to win back those He loved. Again, mankind.
So as the seasons change again and the shopping frenzy takes over our thought life, may we be reminded of this One thing. God’s determination to love us, even if we choose not to love Him, will never change. May those of us who say we know Him forget the tinsel and the bows long enough to bring our prayer for those who don’t know Him to the throneroom, where the blood on the mercy seat, the Son’s own blood, waits to redeem all who come.
The raw power of God is available for all. Creation’s power is still demonstrated when people confess Jesus as Lord. There is power in His blood.
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