Tag: greed
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Prayer Barriers: Wrong Motives
Daily Devotion | Day 298 “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures” (James 4:3, NKJV). God cares about motives. He cares about the motives behind our prayer, our words and our actions. We can hide our motives from people, but not from God. As…
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A Lesson from Elisha and Gehazi
Daily Devotional: Day 153 “But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him’” (2 Kings 5:20-21, NKJV). July, 2007. I had just been ordained a Roman Catholic…
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The Eye-Body Connection: Part II
Daily Devotional: Day 120 Today’s message is a continuation of yesterday’s. We saw that the problem of a bad eye can be traced to the garden of Eden, where the serpent tempted Eve to look lustfully at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That look was so strong that it caused Eve to sin,…
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“Money, Come to Me!”
Daily Devotional: Day 101 “And He [Jesus] said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses’” (Luke 12:15, NKJV). Jesus made the above statement about 2000 years ago. Yet His statement is extremely relevant for today’s generation. Our society makes a big deal of people’s…
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