by MJR | Jun 22, 2023 | Genuine Hope
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Acts 16:25 How’s your day going so far? Is everything turning out the way you expected? I know what I have planned for today, but what happens when...
by MJR | Jun 21, 2023 | Genuine Hope
Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen....
by MJR | Jun 20, 2023 | Genuine Hope
So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave...
by MJR | Jun 19, 2023 | Genuine Hope
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned;struck down, but not destroyed. 2...
by MJR | Jun 16, 2023 | Genuine Hope
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his...
by MJR | Jun 15, 2023 | Genuine Hope
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but...
