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MalachiMalachi::A Message A Message

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• Do I have a real relationship with God?• Is He really inside my life?

• Am I really His child?• Am I in contact with God?

• Am I just going through the motions?• Have I set some idol up in my heart?

• Am I harboring some bad attitude or sin?• Am I praying this so it will benefit me or am I praying this because it has potential

to glorify God?

We have

religious activity but no reality.

Isaiah 45:6 – “That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the

LORD, and there is none else.”

•Galatians 6:9 – “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint

not.”•2nd Thessalonians 3:13

– “But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”

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•Romans 12:1Romans 12:1 – “I beseech – “I beseech you therefore, brethren, you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, by the mercies of God, that ye present your that ye present your

bodies a living bodies a living sacrificesacrifice, holy, , holy,

acceptable unto God, acceptable unto God, which is your which is your

reasonable servicereasonable service.”.”

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Revelation Revelation 3:15-163:15-16 I know I know thy works, that thy works, that

thou art thou art neither cold neither cold

nor hot: I nor hot: I would thou would thou wert cold or wert cold or hot. So then hot. So then because thou because thou art lukewarm, art lukewarm, and neither and neither

cold nor hot, I cold nor hot, I will spue thee will spue thee

out of my out of my mouth.mouth.

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•John 8:44 – “Ye are of your father the devil, and the

lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer

from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,

because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and

the father of it.”

•Mark 8:33 – “But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples,

he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind

me, Satan: for thou savourest not the

things that be of God, but the things that be of

men.”

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•Psalms 38:4 – “For mine iniquities are

gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are

too heavy for me.”

•Matthew 23:4 – “For they bind heavy bind heavy

burdensburdens and grievous to be borne,

and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.”

•2 Corinthians 4:8-9 – “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are

perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast

down, but not destroyed”

•2 Corinthians 4:15-17 For all things are for your sakes, that

the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of

many redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward

man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a

moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal

weight of glory;

•Jeremiah 20:9(a) – “Then I said, I will Then I said, I will not make mention not make mention of him, nor speak of him, nor speak any more in his any more in his

namename…

•Jeremiah 20:9(a) – “Then Then I said, I will not make I said, I will not make mention of him, nor mention of him, nor

speak any more in his speak any more in his namename… But his word

was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in

my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.”

• Matthew 11:28-30 – “Matthew 11:28-30 – “Come Come unto meunto me, , all ye that labour all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I and are heavy laden, and I will give you restwill give you rest. Take my . Take my yoke upon you, and learn of yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly me; for I am meek and lowly

in heart: and ye shall find rest in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke unto your souls. For my yoke

is easy, and my burden is is easy, and my burden is light.”light.”

•Psalms 55:22 – “Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall

sustain thee: he shall never suffer the

righteous to be moved.”•1 Peter 5:7 – “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”

•BoredBored•BurneBurned Outd Out

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