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Lessons from Ezra 2
We continue our study of the life of Ezra. We discussed in the first study that during the reign of King Artaxerxes, an opposition arose that stopped building the temple for 18 years. The Bible records that the enemies of the Israelites (the enemy of our soul, the devil) sent a letter to the king…
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Lessons from Ezra part 1
It starts in Ezra1 where God moved the heart of king Cyrus to ask the Israelites that had been in exile to Persia to return and rebuild the the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. God moved Cyrus’s heart to recognize him as God (Ezra 1:3), and to let the remaining Israelites in exile return…
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The Image of God.
What is the image of God? In the book of Genesis 1:26-27, we read that God initiated the command to create human beings in our image so that human can be like him or them (the trinity). In Genesis 1:2, the bible says that Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters…
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The Law and Grace
Today, after an intensive bible study session where God took me through Genesis 2 and Corinthians about the creation because I wanted to know what it meant to be created in God’s image and likeness (blog for another day ?). I began to wonder or should I say my study made me to start pondering…
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God will never leave us nor forsake us
Hi, it has been a minute. So I was reading the story of Samson from the book of Judges 15-16 this morning (actually I started yesterday and got derailed ?), and I realized how careless Samson was with the gift God gave him as a judge. Chapter 15 talks about how Samson took some gifts…
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Destructive criticism- A weapon of Satan
As I was reading my bible today Matthew 12: 1-13, I felt the Holy Spirit quicken me. For the first time, I came to realize and understand that criticism (the negative or destructive kind ) is a satanic tool or Satan. In verse 2, the Pharisees criticized Jesus disciples. They criticized them for breaking the…