Gen 37:28 Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt. When Joseph was sent by his father to check on his brothers in the wilderness, they saw an…
WHY DID YOU DOUBT ?
Mat 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” It was during the fourth watch of the night. The disciples were all alone in the boat. The wind was blowing against them and they were blown off the course…
STEADY IN UNSTEADY WORLD.
Col 1:23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. Colossse was in a geographical location that was prone to earthquake. Houses not properly…
THE NEW IS MAKING THE OLD OBSOLETE
Mar 2:22 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.” When wine is new, it is still undergoing fermentation where it releases gases. It needs to be put…
LEARN FROM THE BIRDS.
Matthew 6:25-27 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in…
LIFE AND IT’S SUCCESSES COME IN PIECEMEAL.
Exo 23:29 “I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beast of the field become too numerous for you. Exo 23:30 “Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. This is part…
DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND ALL THE HARD KNOCKS.
Mat 7:25 “and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. Palestine, to a considerable extended was and still is a land of mountains and hills. Occasionally , they experience sudden and violent rains. When it…
CLING TO THE END
Ruth 1:14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. Misfortune had befallen on Naomi and it seemed she had lost it all. It was only prudent of her to release her daughters-in-law for perhaps they would restart their lives and move on. Both…
MUTING THE CRITICS
John 1:46-49“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip. When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.” “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree…
THE ARK WILL REST
Ge 8:1 Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. Gen 8:4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of…