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The Lion, The Ox, The Man, And The Eagle

Mitch Horton

Dec 26, 2019
3 min

The Lion, The Ox, The Man, And The Eagle

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1) Matthew 1 begins with the genealogy of Jesus. The book of Matthew presents Jesus as the king of the Jews. It shows Him through this genealogy as the legal heir of the throne of David through Joseph. All of the gospels depict Jesus differently. And here is the background. In the Old Testament tabernacle and temple stood the figure of the Cherubim. There were four faces on these Cherub

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Mitch Horton

Jun 26, 2018
2 min

God Knows Everything About You

O Lord, You have searched me and known me (Psalm 139:1). The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you (Jeremiah 31:3). The Father loves you with an everlasting love. He knows everything about you. He is aware of every cell of your body. Not only does he know the number of hairs on your head, but he understands the complex DNA structure that lives in each cell of your body. He is awa

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Jesus Takes How I Treat Other Believers Very Personally!

Mitch Horton

May 24, 2018
3 min

Jesus Takes How I Treat Other Believers Very Personally!

As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting (Acts 9:3-5). The way we treat other members of the body of Christ is the way we treat Jesus Himself. This is quite a statement. If I’m angry and resentful towards a fellow believer, then I’m ang

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Our Relationship With Jesus Is Directly Linked To God’s Word.

Mitch Horton

May 12, 2018
3 min

Our Relationship With Jesus Is Directly Linked To God’s Word.

Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day (Psalm 119:97). Our relationship with Jesus is directly linked to God’s Word. Obedience to the Word is obedience to Him. My love for Him is demonstrated by my obedience to His Word! He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him (John 14:21). Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep

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Mitch Horton

Mar 1, 2018
2 min

It’s Important To Believe That You Receive Healing Before You Feel Or See It!

Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them (Mark 11:24 – NKJV) So then I tell you, whenever you pray and ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted to you, and you will get it (Mark 11:24 – Williams NT). For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will get it (Mark 11:24- Amplified). That’s why I tell yo

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Mitch Horton

Feb 15, 2018
3 min

You Are Destined To Be Blessed In Christ!

We are destined for blessing! The Father’s desire was for the human race to be blessed beyond measure! Adam’s sin ended the blessing and instead allowed the curse to creep into this wonderful planet. The goodness and blessing of God was curtailed as a result. God appeared to Abram and told him that he was going to bless him and make his name great. He told Abram that through him all the families of the earth would be blessed. The blessing that Adam lost through the fall is be

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Mitch Horton

Jan 15, 2018
2 min

Putting God’s Word Into Practice Brings Him Into Your Daily Life

So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed (Acts 19:20). Acting on the Word of God brings God into the details of your daily life. Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12- Amplified). Acting on the Word causes God to watch over your actions! He pays attentions and gets involved when you act like His Word is important to you! Impossible things become possible. The Holy Spirit is attracted t

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Mitch Horton

Nov 27, 2017
2 min

The Holy Spirit Has A Jealous Love For You

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, the Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously? (James 4:5). The Holy Spirit is a jealous lover. He is jealous over what occupies our thoughts, our time, our ambitions, and our daily lives. His major job is to make Jesus real to us. He works constantly to keep us on the path of righteousness, bringing conviction through the Word when we go astray. His goal is our Christ-likeness. We should be thankful for this jealous lover that

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Mitch Horton

Nov 20, 2017
6 min

Jesus Breaks The Seals On The Scroll In God’s Right Hand

You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.” (Revelation 4:11-NKJV). And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals (Revelation 5:1-NKJV). In my last blog, I begin talking about the sequence of events in the return of Christ. If you haven’t read it, please do so, for I will continue today with that theme. Over t

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Mitch Horton

Nov 13, 2017
2 min

Real Wisdom Comes From God Alone

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7) Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding (Proverbs 3:13). A head full of knowledge without wisdom is useless. Wisdom mixed with knowledge brings success. Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge correctly. The vantage point of wisdom is seeing all of creation in the light of the moral laws of God and cooperating with them. Wisdom means being

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Mitch Horton

Oct 31, 2017
3 min

Healing Is Always The Will Of God For The Believer

Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases (Psalm 103:1-3) Healing is always the will of God for the believer. Right after God delivered Israel from the bondage of Egypt, He revealed Himself as the Physician of His people in Exodus 15:26: If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight

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Mitch Horton

Sep 18, 2017
3 min

Jesus Can Meet Your Need To Be Loved

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love (1 John 4:7-8). God created us to live in an environment of unconditional love. God’s original plan was that husbands and wives bear children, and then raise them in an atmosphere of unconditional, self-sacrificial love. That’s God’s best, but because of the fall of man, we often fail to receive the nurturing love t

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Mitch Horton

Aug 31, 2017
2 min

You Could Have A Great Reward In Heaven!

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church. (Colossians 1:24). There are two kinds of suffering mentioned in the New Testament. First there is the substitutionary suffering of Jesus on Calvary as He became our sin and sickness and defeated Satan for us. Because Jesus took our place, we need not remain in sin or sickness, for Jesus took them both for us when He went

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Mitch Horton

Apr 24, 2017
3 min

The Gaze That Brings Great Change

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:1-2). The phrase looking unto Jesus is from a Greek that means

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Mitch Horton

Apr 18, 2017
3 min

Let Grace Replace Religious Works In Your Life

Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of

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Mitch Horton

Apr 15, 2017
3 min

Jesus Died Both A Spiritual And Physical Death On The Cross!

And they made His grave with the wicked, but with the rich at His death(s). (Isaiah 53:9) The Hebrew word for death in this verse is plural, and should be rendered “deaths.” Jesus died twice on the cross. Jesus’ physical sufferings and death, as gruesome and as horrible as they were, did not touch our sin problem. His physical death was only a means to an end. Jesus had to endure our spiritual death too. Jesus cried out on the cross as the Father turned away. Now from the si

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Mitch Horton

Apr 8, 2017
2 min

The Holy Spirit Baptism Changes You!

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). The baptism with the Holy Spirit changes you. Let me explain why it should. The Greek word for baptize is baptizo. And this word simply means to immerse into something. When a person is baptized into water, the substance that they are baptized in or immersed in is water. The person’s relationsh

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Mitch Horton

Apr 5, 2017
3 min

Obedience Creates An Atmosphere For Miracles!

Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the

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Mitch Horton

Mar 27, 2017
3 min

Jesus Christ Paid Your Sin Debt When He Died

Yet when we are among the full-grown (spiritually mature Christians who are ripe in understanding), we do impart a [higher] wisdom (the knowledge of the divine plan previously hidden); but it is indeed not a wisdom of this present age or of this world nor of the leaders and rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing and are doomed to pass away. But rather what we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden [from the human understanding] and now revealed to us b

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Mitch Horton

Dec 12, 2016
3 min

Jesus Christ Came To Make All Things New!

For God has allowed us to know the secret of His plan and it is this, He purposed long ago in His sovereign will that all human history should be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in heaven and earth should find its perfection and fulfillment in Him (Ephesians 1:9-10-J. B. Phillips). The Virgin Birth was God’s way of bringing all of creation back to its original position before Adam’s sin. Jesus is called the last Adam. He came to blaze a new trail for humani

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