With Jack Bailey
Scripture My heart is confident in You, O God; my heart is confident. ~Psalm 57:7, NLT Quote God warms his hands at man’s heart when he prays. — John Masefield I love George Mueller stories as much as I do those of George W. Truett. Mueller was on board a steamer in the North Atlantic.…
Scripture We own nothing, and yet we have everything. ~2 Corinthians 6:10, NLT Quote Having is an illusion. ~Ya’akov In the Old Testament {Hebrew scripture} there is no verb for ‘to have.‘ In Hebrew, there is no real or exact way to say, “I have something.” You may find the word ‘have’ in translations but…
Scripture “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the Lord.“ Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool. ~Isaiah 1:18, NLT Quote Sins are sins because they’re already committed. They are history, a part of the past,…
Scripture Light is sweet; how pleasant to see a new day dawning. But… remember there will be many dark days. ~Ecclesiastes 11:7-8, NLT Quote The clouds are the dust of His feet. How near God is on a cloudy day! ~Charles Spurgeon Solomon begins Ecclesiastes 11 with a couple of statements about clouds. Dark clouds…
Scripture Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines;even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the…
Scripture “Why do the wicked prosper, growing old and powerful? ~Job 21:7, NLT Quote The LORD gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ~ Charles Spurgeon I am currently reading IMMERSE {Wisdom section} by Tyndale House Publishing. I love reading scripture portions. As is my custom; I read the Lamentations of Jeremiah first and then Ecclesiastes…
Scripture For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning. ~Psalm 30:5, NLT Quote Faith believes in spite of the circumstances. ~Adrian Rogers I will share a devotional thought with you today that I shared with the Pastors on Monday.…
Scripture Thus says the LORD, “Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? ~Isaiah 66:1, NASB1995 Quote Glory: It is who God is. It is the essence of His nature; the weight of His importance; the radiance of His splendor; the demonstration of His power; the atmosphere of His…
Timothy “Wade” Morris February 21, 1968–August 3, 2021 “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” ~John 1:47, NASB Monday night August 2 was not a good night at the Bailey household: we kept getting bad news from every direction and two of the three were covid related. The most shocking news was that…
Scripture If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for My sake, you will save it. ~Luke 9:24, ASV Quote Some people are still clinging to the reins of their life, and hoping somehow that God will bow to their will and make…