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God's Faithfulness: Ad Infinitum

Week’s Key Verse 6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” – Exodus 34:6-9 Introduction Ad Infinitum: again and again in the same way; forever. God’s faithfulness truly is Ad infinitum. As we begin today’s devo, I want to start by looking at verse 6 above as our key. “6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The LORD, the LORD, a God

The Peace of Christ will Guard you

Philippians 4:4 (ESV) 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Setting the Stage Recently, my wife and I have been looking at housing. Part of it is the ever increasing desire to get out of apartment dwelling and the perpetual noise, confinement, and, more often than not, marijuana smells from our neighbors. The other part of this is we have a looming end of lease coming up very soon. We have a tight window of time between now and what is the constantly-relentless approach of November 2nd, the end of our lease. The last time we looked things were completely different. We didn't have children, we didn't have much money and we had a mountain o