Rom 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? It reaches a time when those who are against us ” seem to be gaining milage.” Those arrayed against us seem numerous sometimes – Satan, secularists, false religion, the flesh, our enemies etc But the…
KNOWN FOREVER.
Isaiah 49:15-16 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. Isaiah paints a rather painful and disheartening scenario…
IT WILL BE WELL
Isaiah 3:10 Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. In the midst of judgement pronounced upon Judah and Jerusalem making them stagger and fall,God gave Isaiah a message of hope to the righteous of the day. What an antidote to despair ,pain and afflictions!…
GROUNDED TO WITHSTAND EVERY STORM.
Luk 6:48 “He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. Jesus concluded his sermon by comparing the faithful doer of the…
OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW.
Mar 2:21 “No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. 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…
ZEALOUS TO THE END.
Joh 2:17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.” The term “it is written” was a characteristic way of affirming the inspiration of the Old Testament. This was said after Jesus made a scourge out of cords , drove out money changers, those who were selling…
FEAR NOT!
2Ki 6:16 -17And he answered, Fear not; for they that are with us are more than they that are with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Jehovah, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And Jehovah opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full…
RESILIENCE DURING CRISIS.
Act 8:32 The place in the Scripture which he read was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb silent before its shearer, so He opened not His mouth. This was the portion of scripture that was being read by the Ethiopian eunach who was an official in charge…
DON’T DEFEND HIM; REPRESENT HIM.
Luk 9:54-56 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?”But He turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of.”For the Son of Man…
THE POWER OF PERSONAL TESTIMONY
Rev 12:11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. The portion above is in reference to the attempt by Satan to abolish the Christian name on earth. By their holy lives; by their faithful testimony;…