Poor And Needy

Scripture But I am afflicted and needy; Hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my protector; O Yahweh, do not delay. ~Psalm 70:5, LSB Quote The only way to find peace in this world of sin is to wash Jesus’ feet with the tears of our repentance and do it daily. ~Eitan Shishkoff The young…

How Do You Handle Loneliness?

Scripture The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. ~Psalm 51:17, LSB Quote If a broken heart is all you have; offer it to God. He will not despise it! ~Elisebeth Elliot Elisebeth Elliott, the wife of martyred missionary Jim Elliot, was married four…

Cain And Abel

Scripture Then Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch; and he {Cain} built a city and called the name of the city Enoch, after the name of his son. ~Genesis 4:17, LSB Quote Envy moves evil men to hate those who are good, for no other reason than that they…

Trust Me

Scripture “If you trust Me, you are trusting not only Me, but also God who sent Me.” ~John 12:44, NLT Quote Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us. ~Elisebeth Elliott The Christian faith is filled with mystery and paradox. We say that God is love and then we say that He is…

The Faithfulness Of God

Scripture God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ~1 Corinthians 1:9, LSB Quote Nothing can frustrate God’s plan. Nothing can make Him renege on a promise, and nothing can make Him change His purpose. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones God is faithful {1 Cor.1:9,10:13, 2 Cor.1:18} but…

The Brevity of Life

Scripture “How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.” ~Job 14:1-2, NLT Quote Your life is a ‘breath’, don’t waste it. LeCrae I was in Psalm 144 last night and in verse 4, the Psalmist said, Man is like a…

City Of God

Scripture Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. ~Psalm 87:2-3, LSB Quote No man can be perfectly happy in this life. ~Augustine It took Augustine 14 years to write the CITY OF GOD which was his most notable work.…

A Donkey Or A White Horse

Scripture He will judge the world with justice and rule the nations with fairness. ~Psalm 9:8, NLT Quote It doesn’t matter who is president; CHRIST is KING. ~Source Unknown   I think that most believers are convinced that David is referring to Jesus the Messiah in Psalm nine: He will rule the world in truth and…

Knowing God

Scripture For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. ~1 Corinthians 13:9-10, LSB Quote We know that God is great; we just do not know how great! ~Ya’akov Is it possible to know God? Yes and no; we can know God partially but…

Exuberant Worship

Scripture  Mary then took a litra {Romand pound, 12 0z} of perfume of very costly pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. ~John 12:3, LSB Quote You cannot stop love from giving: the nature of love is…