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Pruning
🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 I am the true grapevine, and My father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and He prunes the branches that do bear fruit do they will be even more fruitful. — John 15:1-2 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 Growth in Christ involves pruning. Distracted leavings,…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you” —Genesis 22:2 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 The next morning. Abraham and his son set out early with their donkeys…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 His disciples said to Him, “Look at this crowd pressing around You. How can you ask, ‘Who touched Me?’ ” But He kept on looking around to see who had done it. —Mark 5:31-32 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 People relate and relish get-togethers. Mixing in comforting camaraderie. Mingling in casual conversation. Meshing in cool…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.—Proverbs 4:23 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 As the tendrils of a new year makes its appearance, wrapping itself around our most innermost desires and devotions, we often desire a word for the year. An exemplary and enduring word to describe how…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Now Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds. —Acts 7:22 Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Get Wisdom; develop good judgement. Don’t forget my words or turn away from them. Don’t turn your back on Wisdom, for she will protect you. —Proverbs 4:3-4 Getting Wisdom is the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good judgement. —Proverbs 4:7 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 When you…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 Take my words to heart. Follow my commands and you will live. Get wisdom; develop good judgment. Don’t turn your back from wisdom, for she will protect. Love her, and she will guard you.—Proverbs 4:4-6 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 A new year brings with it the excitement of newness. New people, new places,…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 He [Zacchaeus] tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way. —Luke 19:3-4 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 Doors can be a friend or foe…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard He was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt at His feet weeping. —Luke 7:37-38 Mary gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped Him snugly in strips of cloth and laid Him in a manger,…
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🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿 When a certain immoral woman from that city heard He was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt at His feet weeping. —Luke 7:37-38 🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿 The alabaster jar of perfume, consisting of pure nard, is valued at a year’s worth of wages,…
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