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Verse of the Week

My Aunt Kay Jean suggested I start sharing a verse of the day.  I liked her suggestion but decided instead of a verse of the day, I would share a verse of the week.  Be reminded of who God is from His Word. 6  “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 7  From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ 8  Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. 9  You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10  Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11  I will r...

Promises of God from Malachi

“My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun.   In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations,’ says the Lord Almighty” (1:11). “See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me.   Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,’ says the Lord Almighty.   But who can endure the day of his coming?   Who can stand when he appears?   For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.   He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver” (3:1-3). “I the Lord do not change.   So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed” (3:6). “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 r...