by Cindy Arora In those days there was no king in Israel.Everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 17:6, ESV). Do you get depressed reading the book of Judges? I did. Judges describes Israel’s dismal cycle of rebellion, oppression, and repentance — repeatedly. The Israelites would forget about God and His commandments. […]

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by Cindy Arora Charm can be misleading, and beauty is vain and so quickly fades, but this virtuous woman lives in the wonder, awe, and fear of the Lord.  She will be praised throughout eternity (Proverbs 31:30, TPT). I inwardly groaned every time someone wanted to study the poem of the Proverbs 31 woman. I […]

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[Moses] said, “Please, show me Your glory.” Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion” (Exodus 33:18, 19). I once viewed this scripture in the […]

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Now on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire (Numbers 9:15). While I read Numbers 9 recently, the pillar of cloud captured my attention. I noticed that the text repeated […]

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“Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son’s days” (1 Kings 21:29). Today, I am astonished again by God’s grace to the repentant. King Ahab gets my vote as the most evil king in the whole history of […]

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“The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you” (John 14:17). I had the American Dream, yet my heart felt empty. I had a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a home of […]

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And he [the false prophet] makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed (Revelation 13:12). God rescued Isabella* from a homosexual and destructive lifestyle. Looking back, she realized how even the music she had listened to glorified corruption. The lyrics honored what God calls […]

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“But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you” (1 Samuel 13:14). King David is described in Scripture as “a man after God’s own […]

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Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting (Numbers 1:1, NASB). The book labeled Numbers in our Bible has a couple different names in Hebrew. The most common is bamidbar, which means “in the wilderness.” This is a much more befitting title because the wilderness wanderings of the […]

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