Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16 Who is righteous, Lord, but one who is rightly related to You? Who is rightly related to You but one who walks one step behind You. Who walks one step behind You but one who loves You more than these?John 21:15 Who loves You […]
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THE PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS PERSON
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Faith increases with experience and decreases through forgetfulness. That’s why the Israelites picked up 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan River when they passed through and piled them up on the other side as a remembrance of God’s intervention in their lives. God intervened in the lives of His chosen people with ten […]
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FAITH
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
“The centurion replied, ‘For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes ; and that one, ‘come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.’ When Jesus heard this, He was astonished.” Matthew 8:8-10 The centurion recognized and […]
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A MAN UNDER AUTHORITY
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
The 12 apostles walked with Jesus for three years and knew him as well as any man can know another. And they loved Him dearly, perhaps even Judas until his sinful nature took over. Paul, the appointed 12th Apostle, spent three years with Jesus in the Arabian Desert and came to know Him as well […]
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TO KNOW JESUS IS TO LOVE HIM
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
You are what you fill your mind with – negative or positive, the world or Jesus Christ, what you want to do or what God wants you to do. If you want to change who you are, you must first change what you fill your mind with. If you want to be more godly, you […]
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WHAT DO YOU FILL YOUR MIND WITH?
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
If He had said, “Here it is,” I would have looked at it.If He had said, “There it is,” I would have searched for it. But how do you hear his voice unless you listen for it? Andhow do you listen for it unless you still your own mind. Beas the prophet Samuel when he […]
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WHERE IS THY WILL, OH LORD?
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
The left bookend is the world as God meant it to be in the beginning. It is referred to as the Garden of Eden or simply Paradise. Through the sin of Adam and Eve, Paradise was lost and replaced by the wasteland of a cursed and fallen world where death, disease, and destruction hold sway. […]
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THE BOOKENDS OF PARADISE
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
“I know that nothing good lives in me, that is in my sinful nature” (Romans 7:18). “The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace” (Romans 8:6). Romans 7 and Romans 8 are a contrast between the natural person (N) and the spiritual person (S). The Apostle Paul wrote this letter to believers, and […]
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Are you an N, an S, or both?
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
We have profaned God’s holy name among the nations. We have devoured men and have deprived our nation of its children. We have done that which will cause our nation to fall. We have defiled our land by our conduct and our actions. [paraphrases of verses in Ezekiel 36] We deserve God’s wrath and the […]
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EZEKIEL 36 AND COVID-19
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Lord God Almighty, will You not raise up a man like Isaiah to speak Your words to the nations in the midst of this pandemic. We have been listening to politicians, scientists, journalists, and pundits of all stripes for information and guidance – who speak from their own perspective. Send us a godly person and […]
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A PRAYER IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19
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