Month: August 2025
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✨When the Church Prayed, the Earth Shook ✨
🌿 Boldness, Unity, and the Power of the Holy Spirit Acts 4:23-31 (NKJV) Prayer for Boldness(cf. Ps. 2:1, 2) 23 And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. 24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with…
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✨ Boldness Despite Threats
🌿 The Name of Jesus Could Not Be Denied Acts 4:13-22 (NKJV) The Name of Jesus Forbidden 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. 14 And seeing the man who had…
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🌟 Bold in the Face of Opposition✨
🌿 Peter and John Are Arrested for Teaching in Jesus’ Name 📖 Scripture Reading (NKJV) Acts 4:1–12 1 Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.…
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🌿 From the Beautiful Gate to Solomon’s Porch
💧 A Miracle, A Message, A Messiah ✨ Acts 3 (NKJV) 1 Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called…
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💛 Living the Glad and Simple Life
🌙 An Evening Reflection on Joy, Peace, and Spirit-Filled Living 🌼 Opening Devotional Invitation Come away for a moment. Let the world’s noise hush. In the quiet, return to the simple joy the early church lived — a joy that still lives on. The glad and simple life is not lost. It waits, ready to be…
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Joel: Mini-Series Wrap-Up
“Blessings in Zion Forever” 🌿 Joel 3:18–21 — A closing picture of restoration, holiness, and God dwelling in Zion. 18 And it will come to pass in that day That the mountains shall drip with new wine, The hills shall flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water; A fountain…
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✨A Vital Church Grows
🌼 How the First Converts Became the Early Church 40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. 42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’…
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🌾Joel: Mini-Series
🔥 “Multitudes in the Valley of Decision” 🌿 A prophetic call to battle, but a promise of protection for Zion 📖 Joel 3:9–17 (NKJV) 9 Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up. 10 Beat your plowshares into…
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✨ Bold Truth on Pentecost
🌿 The First Gospel Sermon by Peter 📖 Acts 2:14–36 (NKJV) 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it…