PSALM 3:3-4 “YOU, LORD, ARE A SHIELD AROUND ME, MY GLORY, THE ONE WHO LIFTS MY HEAD HIGH. I CALL OUT TO THE LORD AND HE ANSWERS FROM HIS HIGH MOUNTAIN.” From ancient times, God’s servants intuitively knew how important a healthy SELF-ESTEEM is. The writer realizes how fulfilling it is to be associated with Read More
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HOW DID WE MAKE IT THROUGH?
2 CORINTHIANS 4:7-9 “THIS ALL SURPASSING POWER IS FROM GOD AND NOT FROM US. WE ARE HARD PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE, BUT NOT CRUSHED; PERPLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR; PERSECUTED, BUT NOT ABANDONED; STRUCK DOWN BUT NOT DESTROYED.” At times we look back and wonder, “How did I ever get through that?! Our bodies, minds Read More
A SURE PLAN FOR FAILURE
ISAIAH 7:9 “IF YOU DO NOT STAND FIRM IN YOUR FAITH, THEN YOU WILL NOT STAND AT ALL.” This is a basic life principle for all Christians. Have you learned it yet? Isaiah admonished King Ahaz with these words above. The concept is this: If you don’t have FAITH that what you’re doing is right Read More
ARE YOU AFRAID TO BE CALLED “FOOLISH?”
1 CORINTHIANS 2:14 “THE MAN WITHOUT THE SPIRIT DOES NOT ACCEPT THE THINGS THAT COME FROM THE SPIRIT OF GOD, FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS TO HIM, HE CAN NOT UNDERSTAND THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED” SPIRITUALITY is the term which means one is reaching for God and for personal significance. A spiritual person thinks Read More
WHEN WAS IT THAT GOD APPEARED TO YOU?
JEREMIAH 35:3 “THE LORD APPEARED TO US IN THE PAST, SAYING: ‘I HAVE LOVED YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE; I HAVE DRAWN YOU WITH UNFAILING KINDNESS.’ ” Everyone who becomes a person of faith can say these exact words about themselves, “The Lord has appeared to me; He touched me with His Love.” In some Read More
THE SIMPLEST PRAYER
PSALM 40:13 “O LORD, MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME.” The early monk, Casian, writing about 400 A.D., suggested his version of this verse as the SIMPLEST PRAYER to offer. By praying in earnest these words only, we are inviting Jesus to pray for us, since He knows best what we need. Who of us are Read More
THE FATHERLESS BOY ON FATHERS DAY
JEREMIAH 22:3 “THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS: ‘DO WHAT IS JUST AND RIGHT. RESCUE FROM THE HAND OF THE OPPRESSOR THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN ROBBED. DO NO WRONG OR VIOLENCE TO THE FOREIGNER, THE FATHERLESS OR THE WIDOW, AND DO NOT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD IN THIS PLACE.” Justice is the Christian way and Read More
WHY WOULD YOU GIVE EVERYTHING TO HAVE THE PEARL?
MATTHEW 13:45-6 “AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE A MERCHANT LOOKING FOR FINE PEARLS. WHEN HE FOUND ONE OF GREAT VALUE, HE WENT AWAY AND SOLD EVERYTHING HE HAD AND BOUGHT IT.” Why would you, a human, give up everything to be part of the Kingdom of Heaven now? What is it about the Read More
A REASON TO BOAST
JEREMIAH 9:23-4 “THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS, ‘LET NOT THE WISE BOAST ABOUT THEIR WISDOM OR THE STRONG BOAST OF THEIR STRENGTH OR THE RICH BOAST OF THEIR RICHES, BUT LET THE ONE WHO BOASTS BOAST ABOUT THIS: THAT THEY HAVE THE UNDERSTANDING TO KNOW ME, THAT I AM THE LORD, WHO EXERCISES KINDNESS, Read More
