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Today’s Turning Point with David Jeremiah – Strength in Numbers: Naaman

Go and wash in the Jordan seven times.

2 Kings 5:10

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2 Kings 5:1-19

The story of Naaman teaches the importance of detailed obedience. Though he was a mighty Syrian commander, Naaman was a leper. When a Jewish girl suggested he consult the prophet Elisha, he was desperate enough to try it. Elisha told him to wash seven times in the Jordan River, but Naaman resisted at first. Afterward, urged by his men, he went to the Jordan and humbly dipped into its muddy waters seven times. He came up the seventh time healed.

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Today’s Turning Point with David Jeremiah – God’s Job Description

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

2 Timothy 2:13

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Romans 3:1-5

A young man was in an outpatient drug rehab program, meeting with a counselor weekly. Some weeks he had to report that he had succumbed to drug use since their last meeting. “Do you want to get off drugs?” his counselor would ask. Hearing “Yes” as an answer she would say, “Then I will be here for you until you succeed.” When he asked why she didn’t give up on him, the counselor would reply, “My job doesn’t depend on your faithfulness. It’s my job to be faithful regardless.”

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Today’s Turning Point with David Jeremiah –Agreeing With God

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

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Psalm 51:1-6

Confession of sin is multifaceted, but there is a core principle. It is not sorrow, guilt, or shame. It is agreement. The Greek translation for “confess” is made of two words: homos means “same,” and lego means “say or speak.” So, to confess means “to say the same thing as.” As who? As God! We don’t inform God of our sins by confessing them. He already knows what we have done. Our greatest need is to humbly agree with Him: “Father, You call what I did ‘sin’ and I agree with You.”

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Today’s Turning Point with David Jeremiah – The One to Please

 

Do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

Galatians 1:10

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Galatians 1:6-10

Andrew Garfield, who played Spider-Man on the big screen, recently spoke of the frustration of trying to please everyone connected with his movies. “The pressure to get it right, to please everyone…You end up pleasing no one, or everyone just a little bit.”

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Today’s Turning Point with David Jeremiah – Strength in Numbers: Noah

And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth.

Genesis 8:13

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Hebrews 11:1-7

Imagine 46,000 cups of tea. That’s the count for Queen Elizabeth II. That statistic came to light last fall when she became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria’s reign of 63 years, 7 months, and 2 days. Journalists calculated the number based on her two customary daily cups of tea.

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Today’s Turning Point with David Jeremiah – Survival and Revival

 

Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time.

Deuteronomy 4:40, NIV

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Deuteronomy 32:44-47

When George Washington was inaugurated as America’s first president, his inaugural address included these words: “. . . the [favorable] smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”

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