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For Those Who Mourn

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 Scripture reading:
1 Corinthians 15:51–57;
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18

People have the wrong idea about mourning. In some cultures they have a day set apart to take wreaths to graves.“Why would you spending time around the graves? The answer is the people you love are not there. Taking of flowers to the graves is not bad, but that is not faith. Those who died in Christ are gone to be with Him, ‘which,’ Paul said, ‘is far better’ (Phil. 1:23).”
If you go mourning the loss of loved ones who have gone to be with Christ I say this to you out of love you have never had the revelation of what Paul spoke of when he showed us that it is better to go than to stay.
The mourning that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 5 is a mourning in the Spirit. God will bring you to a place where things must be changed, and there is a mourning, an unutterable groaning until God comes. Jesus  mourned over Jerusalem. He saw the conditions; He saw the unbelief; He saw the end of those who closed their ears to the Gospel. But God gave a promise that He would see “the labor of His soul, and be satisfied” (Isa. 53:11) and that He would “see His seed.” Amen

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An Issue of ____ Bud Nunley

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For the Poor in Spirit

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. —Matthew 5:3
Scripture reading:
Psalm 37:3–24

I must recognize the difference between my own spirit and the Holy Spirit. My own spirit can do certain things on natural lines—it can even weep and pray and worship—but it is all on a human plane. We must not depend on our own human thoughts and activities or on our personalities. If the baptism means anything to you, it should bring you to the death of the ordinary, where you are no longer putting faith in your own understanding but, conscious of your own poverty, you are ever yielded to the Spirit. Then it is that your body becomes filled with heaven on earth. Amen

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I Bless Your Name - Bud Nunley

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Follow God’s Path

The path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. Proverbs 4:18 Scripture reading:
Proverbs 4:5–18

Jacob was on his way to the land of his fathers, but he was very troubled at the thought of meeting his brother Esau.
Esau’s hating Jacob and saying in his heart, “When my father is dead, then will I slay my brother Jacob.” (See Genesis 27:41.) Our own plans frequently lead us into disaster.
Jacob had to flee from the land, but how good the Lord was to the fugitive. He gave him a vision of a ladder and angels ascending and descending it (Gen. 28:12). How gracious is our God!
Many things may happen in our lives to show us how depraved we are by nature, but when the veil is lifted, we see how merciful and tender God is. His tender compassion is over us all the time.
He knew that no one could deliver him but God. And there alone, lean in soul and impoverished in spirit, he met with God. Oh, how we need to get alone with God, to be broken, to be changed, to be transformed! And when we do meet with Him, He interposes, and all care and strife are brought to an end. Amen

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Changed from Glory to Glory

If the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 2 Corinthians 3:7–8
Scripture reading: Matthew 17:1–13

We have no conception of the depths and heights of the liberty and blessing of the “ministry of the Spirit.” We must reach for this position of godliness and be partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4). The law was so glorious that Moses was filled with joy in the expectation of what it would mean. To us, there is the excellence of Christ’s glory in the ministry of the Holy Spirit. It is no longer, “Thou shalt not.” Rather, it is God’s will, revealed to us in Christ. “I delight to do Your will, O my God” (Ps. 40:8). And, beloved, in our hearts there is exceeding glory. Oh, the joy of this celestial touch! Amen

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To Go or Wait

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On the Way to Heaven

I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:2
Scripture reading:
Revelation 21:4, 10–27

We long for that eternal day when all are holy, all are good, all are washed in Jesus’ blood. But guilty, unrenewed sinners cannot come there. There is no sickness in heaven. There is no death in heaven. They have never had a funeral in that land. They have never known what it means to ring the death toll or to have the drum muffled. Never once has anyone died there. There is no death there, no sickness, no sorrow. Will you go there? Are you getting ready for it?Amen

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Spiritual Revelation

Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.
1 Corinthians 11:24
Scripture reading:
Matthew 26:20–56

It is a wonderful inheritance of faith to find shelter under the blood of Jesus. He took the cup, He took the bread, and He gave thanks. The very attitude of giving thanks for His shed blood, giving thanks for His broken body, overwhelms the heart. To think that my Lord could give thanks for His own shed blood! To think that my Lord could give thanks for His own broken body! Only divinity can reveal this sublime act to the heart.
The natural man cannot receive this revelation, but the spiritual man, the man who has been created anew by faith in Christ, is open to it. The man who believes that God comes in has the eternal seed of truth and righteousness and faith born into him. From the moment that he sees the truth through faith, he is made a new creation. Amen

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What Is in Your Heart?

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. Matthew 12:35
Scripture reading: Matthew 12:25–45

God’s mercy never fails. When Jesus came down from the Mount of Transfiguration, He set His face to go to the cross for you and I.  May God strengthen our hands and take away all our unbelief.
The Devil goes about to kill, “seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8), but Christ said, “I came to give life, and life more abundantly” (John 10:10). May God keep us in the place where the Devil will have no power and no victory.
We must make sure that the power of God comes to inhabit us. Are you willing to so surrender yourself to God? 

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The Power of the Blood

Through death He…destroy[ed] him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release[d] those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Hebrews 2:14–15 Scripture reading: Hebrews 2:1–18

God wants you to know that He has redemption for you through the blood of Jesus, a new birth unto righteousness, a change from darkness into light, from the power of Satan unto God. This blessed salvation through the blood of Jesus will free you from all the power of Satan and make you a joint-heir with Christ. This is a glorious inheritance that we have in Jesus Christ. Glory to God!
Amen

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Faith—Not Feelings

He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. 1 John 5:10 Scripture reading: 1 John 5:1–13

Many people have lost all because of their feelings. You did not come to Jesus. God gave you to Jesus. Where did He find you? He found you in the world, and He gave you to Jesus, and Jesus gave you eternal life. As He received everyone whom He had given His life for and given His life to, He said He would lose nothing; He would preserve them (John 17:12).
We know that we are the sons of God because we do those things that please Him. We know we are the sons of God because we love to keep His commandments. “His commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). And we know we are the sons of God because we overcome the world.
Amen

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Joy in This Life

You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11 Scripture reading:
Psalm 16

The Word of Life is to make your joy full. We must remember that what is absent in the world is joy. The world has never had joy; the world never will have joy. Joy is not in the five senses of the world. Feelings are there, happiness is there, but joy can only be produced where there is no alloy. Now, there is no alloy in heaven. Alloy means that there is a mixture. In the world there is happiness, but it is a mixture; very often it comes very close to sorrow. Often in the midst of festivities, there is a place of happiness, and right underneath is a very heavy heart.
But what Christians have is this: it is joy without alloy, without a mixture. It is inwardly expressive. It rises higher and higher until, if it had its perfect order, we would drown everything with a shout of praise coming from this holy presence.
We want everyone to receive the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit has a very blessed expression of the Lord in His glory, in His purity, in His power, and in all His blessed words.
We all enjoy eating and drinking, but this is something higher, something better, something more substantial: joy in the Holy Spirit! And the Holy Spirit can bring this joy to us. Amen

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The Man of Sin

Many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 2 John 7 Scripture reading:
1 John 2

Theosophy, which is based on theories of reincarnation and other falsities, has a new man. Nothing but Theosophy could have a new man. The foundation of this Theosophy has always been corruptible. The formation of Theosophy was connected to one of the greatest atheists of the day. Theosophy sprang out of atheism. The Man of Sin, as he comes forth, will do many things. There will be many false christs, and they will be manifestations of the forthcoming of the Man of Sin, but they will all come to an end. The Man of Sin will be revealed.  These people are determined to have a man. They know someone has to come. We Christians know who He is who is coming to us. But these people begin to make a man in this manner: they find a man in India, they polish him up as much as they can; they dress him up, but we are told by the Lord that soft clothing can go onto wolves’ backs (Matt. 7:15).

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