Heart Detox: The War for Your Soul by Vance K. Jackson

Faith Under Fire

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[Know This] Promises of a Precious Faith

God's Goodness and Human Free Will

In Crisis but Not Consumed

Lent: The Journey of Letting Go

Don’t Waste the Wild: Discovering God's Plan in the Seasons That Test Us

Bold Faith, Mighty Works: Walking in the Spirit’s Power

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When they arrived, he said to them: &#8220;You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.20.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me&#8212;the task of testifying to the good news of God&#8217;s grace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.20.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">20:28 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">of the Lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> which he bought with his own blood.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">20:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with the blood of his own Son.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.20.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.20.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.20.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.20.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">I have not coveted anyone&#8217;s silver or gold or clothing. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.20.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.20.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;It is more blessed to give than to receive.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> &#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.20.35"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day&#8212;and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.4.8"></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">and he will reward them for what they have done.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"></span></div>
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