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Bible Memory collection
…all things through Christ who strengthens me. Read as he wrote it, the all things are plenty and hunger, abundance and need, faced from a prison cell. Isaiah 40:31 Those who wait on the Lord renew their strength, rising up with wings like eagles, running without weariness, walking without…
Bible Memory verse
…all things through Christ who strengthens me. Read as he wrote it, the all things are plenty and hunger, abundance and need, faced from a prison cell. The context saves this verse from becoming a slogan about ambition or achievement. It is not a promise that Christ will power your plans. It is…
Bible Memory verse
…20:31 1 Thessalonians 2:13 Psalms 119:105 Lord, my faith grows where your word is heard. Give me hunger for Scripture today.
Chapter study
…taught himself, or rather was taught, in both directions, plenty and hunger). So the chapter is not a man handing out advice he has never tested. It is a man showing his work. Read it that way and the familiar verses…
Chapter study
…than a technique. Ask which of the four things keeps you standing: hunger, thirst, fear, or friction with people. Then treat the remedy as obedience rather than indulgence. he-restores-my-soul He restores my soul Psalm…
Dig Deeper
…owes his sheep. Psalm 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing. David repeats the promise elsewhere and adds a qualifier that reads the psalm for us: not…
Dig Deeper
…material Paul has already shown in verses 11 and 12 that he has known hunger as a Christian, so verse 19 cannot mean that a believer will never lack. The letter itself rules that reading out. What then is supplied? All…
Dig Deeper
…not a complaint about need. He has learned contentment in plenty and in hunger, and verse 13 tells you how that was possible. So the promise is enormous, but it is not a promise about outcomes. It is a promise about…
Verse study
…than a technique. Ask which of the four things keeps you standing: hunger, thirst, fear, or friction with people. Then treat the remedy as obedience rather than indulgence.
Verse study
…than to Stoic self-mastery. In a culture built on the assumption that satisfaction depends on acquiring more, Paul's testimony reframes contentment as a discipline learned through both scarcity and plenty, available to…
52 Week Journey
…servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.', WEB The Father Ran God's…
Devotional
…people who have nothing to offer: poor in spirit, mourning, meek, hungering for righteousness. The kingdom Jesus announces is not for the self-sufficient, and mourning fits that pattern of dependence rather than…
Devotional
…the manna in the wilderness, and says whoever comes to Him will never hunger, offering a provision manna could only foreshadow.
Devotional
…this to the devil after forty days without food, at the exact moment hunger would make bread from stones seem like the most reasonable request in the world. He answers with Deuteronomy 8:3, quoting Moses's explanation…
Devotional
…hands can be multiplied beyond what it looks capable of. The crowd's hunger for bread and their hunger to understand the sign were not the same thing. A miracle can be received for the wrong reason even by people who…
Devotional
…and how to abound, it is a statement about enduring both plenty and hunger, not about accomplishing ambitions. The strength named is not general capability but the specific ability to remain content across very…
Devotional
…states the problem from experience: loving money does not produce satisfaction with money. The appetite grows with the supply rather than being filled by it. This is not a claim that money itself is evil. It is an…
Devotional
…receive it as His gift. Every later sin of pride repeats this shape: dissatisfaction with the place God has given, and a grab for a higher one by our own hand. Humility begins by refusing that lie and trusting that what…
Devotional
…on the Mount describing a life that reflects God's own character, hungered and thirsted for in Matthew 5:6. Matthew 6:25-34 The full passage on anxiety, birds, lilies, and seeking the kingdom first. 1 Kings 3:9-13…
Devotional
…hungry. All things means all these things: plenty and want, comfort and hunger. The strength promised is not the strength to achieve whatever you set your mind to. It is the strength to be faithful in whatever God hands…
Devotional
…of God, command that these stones become bread. Jesus does not deny His hunger or His power. He answers with what is written. All three answers in Matthew 4 are quotations from Deuteronomy, the book that records…
Devotional
…servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.', WEB The turning point in…
Topic study
…weigh more than food. It is not required for salvation and it is not a hunger strike against God. It is a way of clearing the table so that prayer can be the meal for a while. What have you been asking God for that you…
Biblical concept
…says he is the bread of life, and that whoever comes to him will not hunger. The claim is deliberately connected to the manna: their fathers ate and died, and this bread is different. Bread in Scripture stands for what…
Word and phrase
…the righteousness of God in him. Matthew 5:6 Jesus calls those who hunger and thirst for righteousness blessed, showing it is also something to long for and pursue. Righteousness first appears attached to a person's…
Biblical concept
…they will have tribulation, and Paul lists beatings, shipwreck and hunger as part of his own experience after coming to faith. Salvation is rescue from sin and its penalty, not a guarantee of comfort. John 16:33 2…
Biblical concept
…word available for a human being, the word used for weakness, hunger, and mortality. John is not describing a visit from a glorious being who only appeared human. He is describing the eternal Word taking on everything…
Place in Scripture
…will provide. Deuteronomy says so directly: He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone (Deuteronomy 8:3). It is also where the covenant is…
Christian Living
…for ambition, but its context is learning to live with plenty and with hunger. All things means all these things: every condition Paul has just listed. The strength promised is strength to endure and be faithful, which…
Bible question
…a widow with one meal left, and to an apostle who knew both plenty and hunger. The widow at Zarephath 1 Kings 17:14-16 She had a handful of meal and a little oil, and was preparing a last meal for herself and her son…
Bible question
…you may grow thereby.' Growth is compared to an infant's instinctive hunger, but here it is also something believers are told to desire, meaning appetite for Scripture can and must be cultivated, not merely waited for.…
Bible question
…Jesus in the wilderness Matthew 4:1-11 He was tempted three times, in hunger, and each temptation offered something good by a wrong route. He answered each time from Deuteronomy, and the devil left him. He did not argue…
Bible question
…as a taught thing, and the curriculum included both abundance and hunger. Verse 13 is about that endurance, not about achievement. Hebrews 13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for…
Bible question
…first, and these things will be added. 2 Corinthians 11:27 Paul lists hunger and cold in his own faithful service. How much should I give? Scripture gives principles rather than a single figure for the church age: give…
Bible question
…WEB Enjoyment in labour is called a gift of God. Scripture allows for satisfaction in work without making work the meaning of a life. Scripture shows skilled work, hard work under bad conditions, and work done alongside…
Bible question
…Paul under pressure 2 Corinthians 11:28 Besides beatings, shipwreck and hunger he lists the daily pressure of concern for all the churches. He was told my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in…
Bible question
…servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger! I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be…
The Sunday Study
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