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Adapting to Life’s Changes: A Biblical Call to Faithful Steadfastness

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Because of some of my own life changes recently I felt it an imparitive to dig into scripture to find answers for myself and to share with those of you that read my blog. As you will read that I have found below God is in control always Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, we live in a world that is constantly shifting. Jobs end. Health fails. Relationships fracture. Homes are left behind. Seasons of abundance give way to lean years. The body that once ran freely now moves slowly. The familiar becomes strange, and the plans we carefully laid crumble under the weight of providence we did not choose. For the true believer who holds the inerrant Word of God as the sole and sufficient rule of faith and practice, these changes are not random, nor are they outside the sovereign hand of the Almighty. The question is never whether change will come—Scripture declares that it will—but how the child of God is to respond when it arrives. The complete counsel of God, from Genesis to Revelation, ...
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The Storm of God’s Wrath

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*A Meditation on Revelation 6* The book of Revelation does not begin with the church’s comfort. It begins with the throne. And from that throne the Lamb of God, the only One found worthy, takes the scroll and begins to break its seals. What follows in chapter 6 is not a distant curiosity for prophecy conferences. It is the opening of the storm of God’s wrath—the measured, righteous, unstoppable judgment of a holy God upon a world that has rejected His Son. This is not the final outpouring. The bowls of wrath still wait. But the seals are the beginning. The sky darkens. The earth trembles. The proud are shaken. And the question that rises from every corner of creation is the same: “Who is able to stand?” (Revelation 6:17). The First Four Seals: The Horses Ride When the Lamb opens the first seal, a white horse goes forth. Its rider carries a bow and is given a crown. He conquers, and keeps conquering. Many have wanted this rider to be Christ. Yet the Lamb is still opening the seals; He i...
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Location: Galveston, IN 46932, USA
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The Spirit Who Groans With Us and the God Who Works All Things for Good

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A Meditation on Romans 8:26–28 There are seasons in the Christian life when words fail us. Not merely the polished words of public prayer, not even the quiet words we once offered so easily in private. There comes a deeper silence—an aching, wordless place where the heart is so pressed that language itself seems to abandon us. We sit, or we kneel, or we simply lie still, and the only sound that rises is a sigh too heavy for syllables. In those moments the believer often feels most alone, most inadequate, most afraid that heaven itself has grown distant. Yet it is precisely into that silence that the Apostle Paul speaks one of the most comforting and profound truths in all of Scripture. “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the ...
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Location: Plymouth, IN 46563, USA
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Day 7: They Shall Look upon Me Whom They Have Pierced – The Day of the Lord

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  Zechariah 12–14 The final oracle of Zechariah lifts our eyes to the climactic Day of the Lord. Chapter 12 opens with the nations gathered against Jerusalem. The Lord makes Jerusalem a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone (12:2–3). In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them (12:8). Then comes one of the most profound Messianic prophecies in all of Scripture: “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son” (12:10). The One who is pierced is the Lord Himself speaking in the first person. The New Testament applies this directly to the crucified Christ (John 19:37; Revelation 1:7). A fountain will be opened to the house of David for sin and for uncleanness (13:1). The shepherd will be smitten and th...
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Day 6: The Crowning of the Priest-King and the Coming Humble King

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Zechariah 6:9–15 & 9:9–10 After the eight visions, the Lord gives Zechariah a symbolic act. He is to take silver and gold from certain returned exiles, make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the high priest (6:11). Then the prophetic word is spoken: “Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both” (6:12–13). Here the two offices that had been carefully separated in Israel—king and priest—are united in one Person, the Branch. Only Jesus Christ fulfills this prophecy. He is the King who sits on David’s throne, and He is the great High Priest who ever lives to make intercession. The counsel of peace is between the two offices because they meet perfectly in Him. Later, in the first major oracle of t...
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