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If They Say, "Come With Us"SJL, Thank you for your time in response. Mine was not a wolf in sheep's clothing but my own father, who knew the real Truth. Yet, I am still...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Jim, thank you for reading and for responding and for sharing your thoughts on this subject. It would take a book to share it all with you, and...
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If They Say, "Come With Us"Dear Christsfreeservant, Thank you for sharing your spiritual insight. Your topic is very timely, personally speaking, as I have struggled with...
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Learn to EndureYou are loved by God and nothing will change that. There will be more in the future. Jesus knows all of it, yet loves you with an eternal heart...
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Lord, how deep your deep waters,
yet You started me shallow,
so I could burst upward
to confess and to follow!
And whether I look
up, at sides or down,
a cloud of witnesses
follows me now.
Spirit within!
Brethren about!
Angels that minister,
God’s creation surrounds!
No time to be lonely...
Father, truly You have loved us first!
How could Heaven’s love be understood or eruditely unearthed?
All that remains is for the heart to hear
Of Christ’s death for all, of Resurrection to assure.
This is favor-come, unsolicited,
“Election” by response elicited!
Yes, enticed if we treasure...
When pondering the enslavement of Joseph and his rise to power in Egypt, I find my myself sympathetic to Potiphar--his being deceived by his wife and his unwitting punishment of Joseph.
In what follows, I imagine Potiphar's wife coming to grips with her connivances as she attempts to mollify...
Ephesians 3:20-21 (NKJV-bold mine)
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
James 4:31 (NKJV-bold mine)
3 You ask...
Acts 4:24,31 (NKJV)
24 So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all...
PROVERBS 3:7-8 (NKJV, bold mine)
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
8 It will be health to your flesh,
And strength to your bones.
LUKE 1:41,44 (NKJV)
41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and...
John 2:1-11 describes Jesus' first miracle, "The Wedding at Cana".
Below, a musing about verses 3-5 (NKJV, bold is mine)
3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not...
1 Kings 19:11-13 (NKJV-bold text mine)
11 Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an...
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us… (NKJV-Ephesians 3:20)
When we walk in a certain spiritual direction, we often ask ourselves, “Is it time to redirect?”
How far thither?* Look at the tether.**
We...
The Bible shows us that God chose a unique moment to match the creative power of His stirring up the sea waves.
The Lord God did this after he sent an angel to stir up the waters. This happened at the pool of Bethesda, where the curing of a lame man was as stunning to the senses as are the...
For the soul that has a saving relationship with Messiah Jesus, true prosperity has nothing to do with being affirmed by the materials that are possessed. The Good News of our Savior is prosperous in every way, in all circumstances. This is why straining the blessed message to attempt or...
Sometimes within the seeming simplicity of what I read, in the Bible, awesomeness of God's
direct, written revelation is acknowledged but not given an immediate place to
render a stirring of my heart. Call it my humanness, frailty--even too harsh of a
self-assessment, the fact is that I know...
There are some interesting contrasts and parallels between the Gospel narrative concerning John the Baptizer (John 1) and the Pharisee named Nicodemus (John 3). All Scripture quotes are from the NASB-1995.
Apostle John’s description of John the Baptist, Jesus, and the spiritual battle...
It is true that “we love him [God] because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Consequently, the children of God have the privilege of praying intimately to Him. That is, we can actually talk to Him. Regarding His initiative to communicate with us and His longing for us to know Him, The Bible...
The Prophet Ezra "looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there. 16 Then [he] sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leaders; also for Joiarib and Elnathan, men of understanding" (Ezra 8:15-16). This...
Apart from sadness on this earth,
its misery and toil,
comes to us Jesus, Adonai,
with mystery mirth: Spirit seven-fold.
In eagerness our hearts frame songs,
lips intercede to say
in melody the truths of HaShem
Who gives Gentiles an Age to praise.
Come, sing you grafted-in ones
from every...
I prayed today,
in earthbound syllables, unlike the angelic kind,
mine miraculous as the upper room languages,
for I prayed believing Christ would interpret them right:
as for intent, as for need, although
bundled with emotions wrapped around truths He has shown us.
Lord, how encouraging!
You...
Iron sharpens iron.*
Brother, sister,
you can discount the effect of distances,
of misunderstanding’s grind against the mind.
Your walk, your talk,
the slightest glint in your countenance,
even the hurried expressions on paper, page—of internetted voices and faces
before you retire:
these add...
Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
“As a man sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend”
Iron touching iron denotes meaningful, close-knit interaction that makes both parties figuratively sharper—and the wiser for it. What the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:11-12 underscores the...
