Significance of Names
Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens. Psalm 8:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) Jesus was with the Father at the creation and was sent to earth to […]
People of Hope
But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. I Peter 3:15 Peter encourages the persecuted scattered Christians to put their hope in Christ and to […]
The Law of God’s Kingdom is Love
My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. James 2:1 This is where we left off before Thanksgiving. We’re all in need before God. We’re all sinners, in need of grace. This life is a vapor for all of us, no matter how glorious, or painful it seems […]
Joy is Possible
As we approach the New Year, I have been thinking about one of my favorite scriptures: For the joy of the Lord is your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10) The people of Judah had just finished rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem. It had been destroyed when God’s people, Israel, were taken into captivity by the Babylonians. The wall […]
Continuing Our Spiritual Journey
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purposes. Philippians 2:12 As you […]
Plans to Prosper
“I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when […]
God’s Faithfulness
They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them. Nehemiah 9:17 […]
Humility
Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. I Peter 5:5-6 Human nature […]
Dreaming with God
Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger wait for it; it will certainly not delay. Habakkuk 2:2-3 The prophet Habakkuk receives a revelation from […]
Seated with Christ
And God raised us up with Christ in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, […]