Stop, Repent and Rejoice

Scripture Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest. ~Psalm 126:5-6, NLT Quote Carol and Dewayne gave me a book last Christmas. It is a Messianic Jewish devotional. Most of the writers, twenty-two in all, I had…

The Tyranny of Time

Scripture Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away. ~Psalm 90:10, NLT Quote God is loving, but He is not lax. ~John Philips Jonathan Cahn’s devotion made reference to Psalm 90 so I opened my bible and…

Eighth Day Baptist

Scripture But now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. ~1 Corinthians 15:20, NKJV Quote The eighth day is the day after the end…the new beginning. ~Jonathan Cahn Jesus was crucified on Passover and Passover is connected to the feast of unleavened bread. At the end…

Our Redeemer

Scripture For your Creator will be your husband; the Lord of Heaven’s Armies is His name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth. ~Isaiah 54:5, NLT Quote We’ve all, by the fall, become barren; unable to bear the fruit that we were intended to bear. ~Jonathan Cahn One of the…

Trouble And Evil

Scripture “Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” ~Matthew 6:34, KJ21 Quote Fix your focus on Jesus–His character, ability and love–rather than on your circumstances. ~Charles Stanley Matthew chapter six came up in two of my…

The Helper

Scripture And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever. ~John 14:16, NKJV Quote Live today with the awareness that you are not alone. God Himself dwells with you in the Spirit. ~Jonathan Cahn If you go back to Genesis 24 you will find…

The Witness Of Darkness

Scripture  In Him {Jesus} was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. ~John 1:4-5, NASB Quote In substance, there is no such thing as darkness. Darkness is merely the absence of light. ~Ya’akov Are you afraid of the dark? Partial darkness…

The Bridegroom Comes

Scripture  No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven. ~John 3:13, NLT Quote Every religion is man’s attempt to reach God in heaven and it cannot be done. ~Ya’akov I am reading Jonathan Cohn’s BOOK OF MYSTERIES and I am learning about Jewish traditions…