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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we esteemed »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way…” -Psalm 2:12 “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” -Luke 22:48 No two kisses could be so different! One reflects so much good, life-saving, and genuine delight of the heart, while the other »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“...knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own evil desires. They will say, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.’…But these »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” -Jesus in Mark 14:9 Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus, really is known throughout the whole world today wherever the gospel has been preached, »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place...Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jesus asked, “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed, and walk’? -Mark 2:9 In this life, some people are the prisoners of physical maladies such as blindness, deafness, crippled limbs, incapacitating mental syndromes, debilitating, even lethal cancers, »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“And when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parables. And He said to them, ‘To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that “they may indeed see but not perceive, »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory. -Revelation 19:6-7 Today is our nation’s birthday. Possibly you won’t read this Strength for the Day until days after, but you can still reflect on what the birthday of our nation »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I will come out as gold. -Job 23:10 She died in the womb from a knotted cord around her neck as she was thrust into the birth canal by contractions. My third daughter, Samantha, never saw the »

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love. -Song of Solomon 2:4 From time immemorial warriors have marched into battle being led by a banner or flag held above them so they could view the identifying marker declaring who they are and to whom »