2Ch 22:3-4 He too followed the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for after his father’s death they became his advisers, to his undoing. After the death of Jehoshaphat and Jehoram…
NOT BY OUR OWN TERMS.
2Ki 5:11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’ 2Ki 5:12 “Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar,…
HE DESPISES NOT THE BROKEN HEARTED.
Psa 51:16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.à Psa 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart–These, O God, You will not despise. This was part of David’s prayer of contrition ,repentance, healing and moral…
TEMPORAL PAIN , FOREVER GAIN
2Co 4:17,18 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Paul’s daily diary recorded troubles of different intensities…
IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO BEGIN AGAIN.
Isa 43:18 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Isa 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. One of the devil’s favorite lies is to…
BETTER THAN BEFORE.
Eze 36:10 “I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. Eze 36:11 “I will multiply upon you man and and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do…
NO PRAYER IS TOO SMALL FOR GOD
1 Chr 4:10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. Ranked among the shortest answered prayers in the bible is…
BUDGET HOLE SEAL
2kings 6:25-27 5 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall,…
OUR PAST EXPERIENCES PREPARES US FOR OUR CURRENT & FUTURE ASSIGNMENTS.
1Sa 17:34-36 But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by…
FAITH IS GIVING CORRESPONDING ACTION TO GOD’S WORD.
Joh 9:11 He answered and said, “A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and I received sight.” This was a miracle for a man born blind. The fact that the man was blind from birth…