Micah Bemenderfer

Personal Devotions (579)

Notes from personal Bible reading and meditation with a goal to apply one truth from the day's reading to my life that day

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October 16, 2024

Passage Read: Galatians 5-6 Meditation Verses: 5:18-24 The war we're in is not a war between the Law and the Spirit, but between the flesh and the Spirit, and the battleground is our moral behavior. It is not a war of circumcision or holy days…

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October 15, 2024

Passage Read: Galatians 3-4 Meditation Verses: 4:22-24 God promised to give Abraham an heir through Sarah, but He delayed in fulfilling it, knowing that Sarah would become discouraged and suggest using Hagar, and Abraham would agree. This would become an illustration for our spiritual state…

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October 13, 2024

Passage Read: Galatians 1-2 Meditation Verses: 2:11-14 Two things here: One, how easy it is to be pulled back into old ways when others who are in the grip of those old ways come along; two, leaders who fall into sin need to be publicly…

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October 12, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 12-13 Meditation Verses: 12:20-21 Paul fears that there may yet be all these unrighteous behaviors in the Corinthian church. Which means he expects them to have conquered all these sinful behaviors! Things like jealousy, arrogance, slander, anger, strife—all kinds of disunity,…

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October 11, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 10-11 Meditation Verses: 10:3-6 Sometimes the answer to a question is so obvious that I can't see it. Here Paul talks about weapons that destroy strongholds and take captive every thought. He talks about spiritual weapons, not fleshly. Divinely powerful weapons!…

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