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Daily Bible Verse – 04.08.2015 ( August 4, 2015 )

Meyer notes:

Do not mourn about the grave of the past; leave it and enter the life of resurrection and ascension.

Storms must sweep over all our lives. The Master’s sleep indicates the peace and security of His nature.

What a contrast between our impatience and His infinite serenity!

Our Lord was sure that the Father was with Him, John 8:29.

Near though the enemy may be, the Father is nearer. The everlasting arms are beneath you.

You are beset behind and before, but no boat can sink when Christ is on board.

August 4, 2015 0

Daily Bible Verse – 03.08.2015 ( August 3,2015 )

Meyer notes:
…He will not give us stones or serpents, even if we clamor for them; but He will never fail to give good things-and above all His Holy Spirit-only we must ask for them…

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Daily Bible Verse – August 2,2015 (02.08.2015)

Albert Barnes notes:

…So tempests, and storms of affliction and persecution, beat around the soul. Suddenly, when we think we are in safety, the heavens may be overcast, the storm may lower, and calamity may beat upon us.

In a moment, health, friends, comforts may be gone. How desirable, then, to be possessed of something that the tempest cannot reach!

Such is an interest in Christ, reliance on His promises, confidence in His protection, and a hope of heaven through His blood. Earthly calamities do not reach these; and, possessed of religion, all the storms and tempests of life may beat harmlessly around us….

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Daily Bible Verse – July 31, 2015 (July 31, 2015)

John CALVIN Notes:

….. Paul only infers from the shaking of the heaven and the earth that the state of the world was to be changed at the coming of Christ; for things created are subject to decay, but Christ’s kingdom is eternal; then all creatures must needs be brought into a better state.

He makes hence a transition to another exhortation, that we are to lay hold on that kingdom which cannot be shaken; for the Lord shakes us for this end, that He may really and forever establish us in Himself……

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