Micah Bemenderfer

Personal Devotions (1050)

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 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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October 10, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 8-9 Meditation Verses: 9:13-14 Receiving gifts from others should result in praise to God for the true faith of the giver and their generosity. It should also result in prayer and longing for the giver because of the amazing grace of…

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October 9, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 6-7 Meditation Verse: 6:3 This is a tough statement to process. Paul determines to give no cause for offense in anything. How does he mean that? Certainly not in his teachings, because the Gospel has offended many Jews, and his other…

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October 8, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 4-5 Meditation Verse: 4:2 Anything that brings shame, instead of hiding it, covering it, continuing in it but claiming freedom, deceiving people about it, Paul renounced it. If he could not practice it publicly because it was shameful, he did away…

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October 7, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 2-3 Meditation Verses: 2:6-8 This is likely in reference to the man in 1 Corinthians 5, but whether him or some other brother, the point remains. Church discipline is not for the purpose of eternal rejection, but to impress on the…

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