With Jack Bailey
Scripture How good for me to have been chastened, so that I might be schooled in your statues. ~Psalm 119:71, REB Quote Everyone faces adversity; but what matters is what we learn from it. ~Lou Holtz The NIV reads…It was good for me to be afflicted, so that I might learn your decrees. The root…
Scripture “I shall not talk to you much longer with you, for the prince of this world approaches. He has no rights {power} over Me.” ~John 14:30 Quote The only way Satan can gain power over a believer is to get them to disobey Christ. ~Timothy Ray Keenum Tim stirred my mind the other night:…
Scripture I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for sovereigns and for all in high office so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life, free to practice our religion with dignity. ~I Timothy 2:1, REB Quote “If conscience disapproves, the loudest applause of the world are of little…
Scripture I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame…Take away the disgrace I dread, for your laws are good. ~Psalm 119:31,39, NIV Quote I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much toward preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices. ~Clyde…
Scripture I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word. ~Psalm 119:16 Quote The bible is a treasure book so don’t defraud yourself by neglecting to study it daily. ~Ya’akov When I read Psalm 119:16 the other day, I began to swell on the inside. I love my quiet time and I love…
Scripture “If you loved Me, you would be glad that I am going to My Father.” ~John 14:28, REB Quote Love is not affectionate feelings but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good. ~C. S. Lewis When we read the passion narrative, we see the weakness and failure of the disciples. Their ignorance…
ScriptureI For he {Abraham} was looking forward to a city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder was God. ~Hebrews 11:10, REB Quote “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ~C.S. Lewis What lies before us as followers of Christ is infinitely better than anything we have experienced on this…
Scripture When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, He was moved with indignation and deeply distressed…Jesus wept. ~John 11:33,35, REB Quote Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith. ~Elisebeth Elliot John 11:33 in the NASB reads… When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews…
Scripture A curse on anyone who trust in mortals and leans for support on human kind, while his heart is far from the LORD. ~Jeremiah 17:5, REB Quote If I am to meet with disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. ~Thomas Jefferson The middle…
Scripture When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. ~Psalm 118:5, NIV Quote The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God, but in the cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation…