With Jack Bailey
Scripture Praise the LORD ! Praise the name of the LORD ! Praise him, you who serve the LORD! ~Psalm 135:1, NLT Quote Praising God should be our highest goal, greatest passion, grandest privledge and noblest activity. ~Steven Lawson The first two Hebrew words in Psalm 135 are hä·lal’ and yä. When you put them…
Scripture “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for… For everyone who asks, receives.” ~Matthew 7:7-8, NLT Quote When we pray we enter the real world, the substance of the KINGDOM. ~Dallas Willard I write things down that I do not want to forget and many of the blogs are simply study…
Scripture “Don’t worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I’ll go fight him!” “Don’t be ridiculous!” Saul replied. “There’s no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win!” ~I Samuel 17:32-33 Quote God sees nothing great or small and certainly nothing impossible. ~Ya’akov Problems can seem larger than mountains; so big, so gigantic that…
Scripture “Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, they will be severely punished.” ~Luke 20:47, NLT Quote The essence of Christianity is to love your neighbor as much as you love yourself. ~Ya’akov It is hard to imagine…
Scripture For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. ~2 Corinthians 2:15, NKJV Quote No matter how little natural winsomeness we may have, if we abide in CHRIST, we will manifest His beauty and His fragrance. ~Lettie Cowman The missionary Charles Cowman…
Scripture “For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.” ~Luke 19:10, REB Quote Our seeking would be in vain except for the fact that He is seeking us. ~Ya’akov Some days I pick up my bible, began reading and the sparks begin to fly. Yesterday as I read Luke…
Scripture Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, “Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?” ~Genesis 17:17, MSG Quote Laughter is the automatic human response to incongruity. ~Dallas Willard When I came across the word incongruity, the first definition that popped into…
Scripture If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. ~I John 1:8-9, NLT Quote It is the lack of confession…
Scripture Remember, the final age of this world is to be a time of turmoil! People will love nothing but self and money; they will be boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to parents and devoid of gratitude and piety. ~2 Timothy 3:1-2, REB Quote We live in the most authority-averse culture in the history of mankind.…
Scripture Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. ~James 5:16 NLT Quote If God cannot be moved by our praying then He is only pretending to answer our prayers because He…