Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Almost

This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.

When Jesus realized how insightful he was, he said, "You're almost there, right on the border of God's kingdom."

NOW IN the first year of Cyrus king of Persia [almost seventy years after the first Jewish captives were taken to Babylon], that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might begin to be accomplished,

I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.

Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own officers and manned by experienced crews of sailors. These ships sailed to Ophir with Solomon’s men and brought back to Solomon almost seventeen tons of gold.

The following week almost the entire city turned out to hear them preach the word of the Lord.

Genesis 8:11 Mark 12:34 Ezra 1:1 Philippians 4:12 2 Chronicles 8:18 Acts 13:44

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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