With Jack Bailey
Scripture No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the one who alone is God. ~John 5:44, NLT Quote The man in whom the Holy Spirit dwells does not talk about himself. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones John tells us in chapter 12 of…
Scripture She did what she could. She anointed My body beforehand for burial. ~Mark 14:8, NET Quote We must do the thing we know in order to learn the thing we do not know. ~George MacDonald Have you ever felt exasperated, so frustrated that you did not know what to do? I have and it…
Scripture All He {God} does is just and good, and all His commandments are trustworthy. They are forever true, to be obeyed faithfully and with integrity. ~Psalm 111:7-8, NLT Quote Awe is the proper response to God’s goodness. ~Steve Lawson There is no separating who God is from what God does. His actions and attributes are inseparably united.…
Scripture “Quit your worship charades. I can’t stand your trivial religious games: Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings—I can’t stand one more! Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You’ve worn me out! I’m sick of your religious observance while you go right on sinning. When you put on your next prayer-performance, I’ll be looking the other way.” ~Isaiah 1:13-14, MSG…
Scripture “Oh my father, bless me, too!” ~Genesis 27:38 Quote The one aim of the call of God is His satisfaction or pleasure. ~Oswald Chambers A part of the fall is the curse of sin and death but along with that is our vanity. We humans are vain. We are self-centered to the core. When…
Scripture Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob… this is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. ~Psalm 81:1,4, NIV Quote We fail to worship because our minds are attached to useless things. If is impossible to worship God when our mind is not…
Scripture Now I promise that like you, your descendants will be kings. I’ll choose one of your sons to be king… I’ll make him a strong ruler, and no one will be able to take his kingdom away from him. He will be the one to build a temple for Me. ~I Chronicles 17:10-12, CEV…
Scripture We hung our small harps on the willow trees. ~Psalm 137:2, CEV Quote Self-pity is the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical drugs; it is addictive and dangerous. It gives momentary pleasure and then separates the victim from reality. ~John W. Gardner If we understood the destructive power of drugs, we would be afraid to…
Scripture You must not offer sacrifices just anywhere you want to. Instead, the LORD will choose a place somewhere in Israel where you must go to worship Him. ~Deuteronomy 12:5, CEV Quote Obedience is the first act of worship. ~Ya’akov I had a conversation last week that got me to thinking. We we worship God as we…
Scripture The food that you put into your mouth doesn’t make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean.” ~Matthew 15:11, CEV Quote God’s purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels ~A.W. Tozer I was reading Matthew 15 in…