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Take from Me …(0)

December 4, 2009

Take from me, O Lord, my heart of stone.
Take away my hardened heart.
Take away my uncircumcised heart.
Give me a new heart, a heart of flesh, a pure heart!
You who purify the heart,
you who love the pure heart,
possess my heart and dwell within it,
enclosing it and filling it,
higher than what in me is highest, more
inward than [...]

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Preciousness of Silence

“But Jesus was silent.” Mt 26:63
The Silence is Meekness.
When you do not defend yourself against offenses;
When you do not claim your rights;
When you let God defend you;
The Silence is Meekness.
The Silence is Mercy.
When you do not reveal the faults of your brothers to others;
When you readily forgive without inquiring into the past;
When you do not [...]

The “Hound of Heaven” and You

The following was offered by Greg Herrick Th.M., Ph.D. on www.bible.org
Jesus is truly the ever-present, all-seeing “Hound of Heaven.” He can track us down wherever we’re hiding! And once on the trail, he sets his heart with relentless zeal and undivided focus to the pursuit-a zeal that originally led him directly to the ignominy of [...]


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