Max Lucado - 3:16: April 30, 2010

For you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings.  And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.
            Malachi 4:2

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 29, 2010

If God can make a billion galaxies, can’t he make good out of our bad and sense out of our faltering lives?  Of course he can.  He is God.  He not only flies the plane, but he knows the passengers and has a special place for those who are sick and ready to get home.

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 28, 2010

Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord…is the Rock eternal.
            Isaiah 26:4

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 27, 2010

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
            1 Peter 5:10 NASB

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 26, 2010

Since [God] has no needs, you cannot tire him.
Since he is without age, you cannot lose him.
Since he has no sin, you cannot corrupt him.

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 25, 2010

Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance?  You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
    Micah 7:18

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 24, 2010

Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
    Psalm 103:2-5 NKJV

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 23, 2010

[After Bill wrecked his father’s truck and the precious new machine it carried, he expected to hear,] “Stupid, punk kid driving too fast, not paying attention, ruined the family by taking away our livelihood.”  But that’s not what he said.  He looked right at [Bill], “Oh, Bill, I am so sorry.”  And he walked over, put his arms around [Bill], and said, “Son, this is going to be okay.”

God is whispering the same to you.  Those are his arms you feel.  Trust him.  That is his voice you hear.  Believe him.  Allow the only decision maker in the universe to comfort you.  Life at times appears to fall into pieces, seems irreparable.  But it’s going to be ok.  How can you know?  Because God so loved the world.

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 22, 2010

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.
Because he turned his ear to me,
I will call on him as long as I live….
The Lord is gracious and righteous;
our God is full of compassion….
Be at rest once more, O my soul,
for the Lord has been good to you.
    Psalm 116:1-2, 5, 7

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 21, 2010

If  God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?  Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?  It is God who justifies.  Who is he that condemns?  Christ Jesus, who died – more than that, who was raised to life – is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
    Romans 8:31-35

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 20, 2010

“For God so loved the world.”  Try that mantra on for size.  The one who holds the aces holds your heart.  The one who formed you pulls for you.  Untrumpable power stoked by unstoppable love.

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 19, 2010

Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.
    Deuteronomy 7:9 NKJV

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 18, 2010

Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
    2 John 1:3 NASB

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 17, 2010

Compared to God, I have the life span of a fruit fly.  And sinless?  I can’t maintain a holy thought for my two-minute morning commute.  Is God’s greatness good news?  Not without the next four words of John 3:16: “ For God so loved the world.”

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 16, 2010

O Lord, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill?
He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness,
And speaks truth in his heart.
    Psalm 15:1-2 NASB

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 15, 2010

I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.  I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.  I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
    Isaiah 46:9-10

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 14, 2010

When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.”  For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.
    James 1:13-14

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 13, 2010

One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
    Job 36:4 NASB

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 12, 2010

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.  Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
    James 1:17-18 NKJV

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 11, 2010

God is holy.  Every decision, exact.  Each word, appropriate.  Never out-of-bounds or out of place.  Not even tempted to make a mistake.  “God is impervious to evil” (James 1:13 The Message).

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 10, 2010

Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name;
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness….
The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty….
The Lord sits as King forever.
The Lord will give strength to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.
    Psalm 29:2, 4, 10-11 NKJV

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 9, 2010

Most staggering of all, [God] has never messed up.  Not once.  The prophet Isaiah described his glimpse of God.  He saw six-winged angels.  Though sinless, they covered themselves in God’s presence.  Two wings covered eyes, two wings covered feet, and two carried the angels airborne.  They volleyed one phrase back and forth: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts” (Isaiah 6:3 NKJV).

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 8, 2010

There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Who rides the heavens to your help, and through the skies in His majesty.  The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
    Deuteronomy 33:26-27 NASB

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 7, 2010

Your word, O Lord, is eternal;
it stands firm in the heavens.
Your faithfulness continues through all generations;
you established the earth, and it endures.
Your laws endure to this day
for all things serve you.
    Psalm 119:89-91

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 6, 2010

He is “the eternal God” (Romans 16:26).  He invented time and owns the patent.  “The day is yours, and yours also the night” (Psalm 74:16 NKJV).  He was something before anything else was.  When the first angel lifted the first wing, God had already always been.


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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 5, 2010

Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.  The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
    Job 37: 22-23

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 4, 2010

The Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome….  He is your praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.
    Deuteronomy 10: 17, 21

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 3, 2010

Let every speck of sand, from the Sahara to South Beach, represent a billion years of God’s existence.  With some super vacuum, suck and then blow all the particles into a mountain, and count how many you have.  Multiply your total by a billion and listen as God reminds: “They don’t represent a fraction of my existence.”

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 2, 2010

Your way, O God, is holy;
What god is great like our God?
You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.
You have by Your power redeemed Your people.
    Psalm 77: 13-15 NASB

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Max Lucado - 3:16: April 1, 2010

How great is God – beyond our understanding!  The number of his years is past  finding out.  He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.  Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?  See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.  This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.  He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.  His thunder announces the coming storm; even the cattle make known its approach.
    Job 26: 26-33

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