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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 2:1-5

Luke 2:1-5    And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2  This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. 3  So all went … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verses 57-58

Luke 1:57-58   Now Elizabeth’s full time came for her to be delivered, and she brought forth a son. 58  When her neighbors and relatives heard how the Lord had shown great mercy to her, they rejoiced with her. Elizabeth’s son … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verse 53

Luke 1:53    He has filled the hungry with good things, And the rich He has sent away empty. Mary, the peasant girl living in what we would regard as poverty, can testify that God fills the hungry with good things. … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verse 37

Luke 1:37    For with God nothing will be impossible. I want to be a man of all-out faith. Anything God says, no matter how “impossible,” I believe and stand on, without doubting or hedging. I take His Word and His … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verses 26-38

Bible students have often been puzzled by an apparent inconsistency in the events leading up to the birth of Christ. An angel of the Lord appeared and spoke a word from God to two parents-to-be. Both had similar responses, but … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verses 26-28

Have you noticed that whenever God wants to accomplish something in the earth, He usually does it in divine partnership with a man or woman of faith? When God purposed to raise up a people who would love and serve … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verses 21-25

Zacharias had just had what was literally the event of a lifetime happen to him. As he was performing his priestly duties, an angel of the Lord appeared to him to let him know that God was going to give … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verses 18-20

In answer to what was probably long years of praying for a child, God sent an angel to Zacharias to let him know that even though he and his wife Elizabeth were now well past child-bearing age, their prayer was … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verses 13-17

God had sent an angel to Zacharias to let him know that the prayers for a child he and his wife, Elizabeth, had prayed for many years were about to be answered. But this angelic mission was about much more … Continue reading

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Working Through Luke and Acts – Luke 1, verses 5-7

Luke’s account of how God blessed Zacharias and Elizabeth with a long-desired son is a story of the triumph of faith over doubt, and of faithfulness over disappointment. For many long years they did not receive what they prayed for. … Continue reading

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