My Spirit Faileth, Ps 143:7-8

VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS SESRMON In Ps 143:7, David prayed to the Lord and said, “Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth.”  When your spirit fails it’s entirely exhausted, it’s deficient, or it’s diminished.  It seems that a black cloud has just settled in above you, cutting you off...

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The Spirit, the Water, and the Blood, 1 Jn 5:6-8

1 Jn 5:6-8 is quite a passage of scripture in your Bible.  For the most part, Bible scholars and many preachers don’t believe that 1 Jn 5:7 should even be in your Bible.  They say that this verse is a late addition to scripture, that it isn’t in the “oldest...

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Encourage Your Spirit, 1 Sam 1:15-18

There are things in your life that will affect your spirit.  And when your spirit gets down, you are in trouble.  We often think that our spirits won’t be lifted until whatever has gotten us down is resolved or is taken away.  But such is not the case.  You can...

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The Death of His Saints, Ps 116:15

Ps 116:15 says, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”  The Psalmist didn’t say death is precious.  Death is horrible.  Death came from Adam’s disobedience [Rom 5:12].  God remedied our problem with death through the death of his own Son [Heb 2:14-15].  In Is...

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Be Thou Clean, Mk 1:40-44

Our text this morning is Mark 1:40-44 about the cleansing of a leper.   Do you like things clean?  Don’t you like a clean house, a clean car, a clean body, clean clothes, and clean speech?  Of course, you do.  God likes things clean, as well.  This leper wanted to...

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Rule or Be Ruled, Gen 4:7

Rule or be ruled.  You and I have been commanded to rule certain people and things in our lives.  If we don’t rule these people and things, they will rule us. God rules over everything.  Ps 103:19, The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth...

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You Are To Rule, Gen 3:16

The Bible shows you that you have some areas of your life over which you must rule.  God has set up everything in the universe under rule.  God rules over the kingdoms of men [Dan 4:32].  The sun and the moon rule the day and night [Gen 1:16].  Rulers rule...

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