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           Psalm 109:4 

 4 I love them, but they try to destroy me with accusations even as I am praying for them!

David was angry at being attacked by evil people who slandered him and lied. Yet David remained a friend and a man of prayer. While we must hate evil and work to overcome it, we must love everyone, including those who do evil, because God loves them. We are called to hate the sin, but love the person. Only through God's strength will we be able to follow David's example.

 

Verse and commentary above is copied from the Life Application Study Bible Reading Plan on YouVersion.  Check it out at http://www.youversion.com/ .  

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                 John 4:43-54 

43 After the two days he left for Galilee.44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ( God can work through people you would least expect.  No one where Jesus grew up could believe that He was the Messiah.  God will use people close to us - those we might least expect.) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

48 "Unless you people see signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe."

49 The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

50 "Go," Jesus replied, "your son will live."
The man took Jesus at his word and departed.
51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, "Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him."

53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he and his whole household believed.

54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

 

The father was desperate to save his son.  The officials were the ones who would eventually crucify Jesus.  Scripture doesn't say if the father followed Jesus afterword.  I wonder how many of us see miracles of Jesus and still don't follow Him.  Acknowledge Him in your life today!  Give credit where credit is due.

 

 
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