Here’s great news for you on this first day of 2019. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener and Standby) that He may remain with you forever … He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you. John 14:16,17 Amplified New Testament The […]
Rise, let us go away from here. John 14:31 In this chapter, Jesus tells me all about Himself and the Holy Spirit, as He speaks to the 12 apostles reclining around the table at the Last Supper. I am in the lower level of our townhome sitting in front of the fireplace, soon to rise […]
I am presently reading the Book of Hosea and found a warning for the world in 7:13. Woe to them for they have wandered from Me! Is there a nation in this world who does not fit the indictment of 7:7? There is none among them who calls on Me. Well, that’s a cheery message […]
All believers have two personalities. In Scripture, Romans 7 and 8 lay out the dilemma. One of our personalities is the natural self, which the Apostle Paul calls the flesh, and is our inheritance from Adam and Eve. The other is the spiritual self, which we claim when we accept Jesus Christ as Savior and […]
The Apostle Paul must have been quite fond of the word flesh because he used it 40 times in his epistles, 12 times in Romans alone, with 9 of them being in the 8th Chapter. For Paul, the definition of flesh was quite simple – the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit, the natural […]
Joshua asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” “Neither, He replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Joshua 5:13-14 Are you for Clinton, Sanders, Trump, or any of the others presently on the political stage? Are you for the Democrats or for the Republicans? That is, […]
If I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I go away, I will send Him to you. Jesus was with them for three years in the flesh. After He left this world in the flesh, He returned in the Spirit. The same Jesus that lived among them then […]
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. – Isaiah 55:8 I look at the thoughts of the Lord and His ways as a Spiritual stream of consciousness permeating this world, like the air itself – invisible but omnipresent, flowing through every person and surrounding the trees […]
It is the Sovereign Lord who helps me. –Isaiah 50:9 Help comes from God alone. It means He does everything on behalf of someone who is in great distress. To ask for God’s help is to acknowledge our dependence on Him. Praying for God to help this person or that is a wonderful prayer, without getting […]
My name is Patrick, and tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. When I was growing up, on the front side of my life and part of a proud Irish family, I held this day higher than my birthday. Now that I’m on the back side of my life, it’s not St. Patrick that I celebrate as […]