Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. – Jonah 1:17, KJV Anxiety. Fear. Financial trouble. Bitterness. Chronic disease. Jealousy. Addiction. Family problems. Work-related troubles. These, and many other of life’s problems, can hit us at any… Continue reading Whose fault is it, really?
Category: Chastening
BEST OF TQFG: Don’t take matters into your own hands. Wait for God’s timing.
We hope you enjoy this re-post from January 26, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. – Genesis 12:2, KJV In Genesis 12:2-4, God promised Abraham to make a nation… Continue reading BEST OF TQFG: Don’t take matters into your own hands. Wait for God’s timing.
Are you happy with your mud hole?
9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 And [then dare to] come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My Name, and say, [By the discharge of this religious formality] we are set free!—only… Continue reading Are you happy with your mud hole?
God doesn’t like hypocrites either.
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and put the stumbling block of their iniquity and guilt before their faces; should I permit Myself to be inquired of at all by them? – Ezekiel 14:3, Amplified Bible (AMP) Answers in Genesis commissioned a study that was published in 2011… Continue reading God doesn’t like hypocrites either.
Never take leadership lightly.
Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will go forth and surrender to the princes of the king of Babylon, then you will live and this city will not be burned with fire; and you will live—you and your house. But if you will not… Continue reading Never take leadership lightly.
Mind what you allow to take root in your mind.
Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts (their schemes and devices) because they have not listened and obeyed My words, and as for My law, they have rejected it. – Jeremiah 6:19, Amplified Bible (AMP) When I was a younger Christian, I suffered from what I… Continue reading Mind what you allow to take root in your mind.
BEST OF TQFG: If God can forgive Manasseh, He can forgive you.
We hope you enjoy this re-post from June 11, 2013. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel. – 2 Chronicles 33:9, KJV It is so easy… Continue reading BEST OF TQFG: If God can forgive Manasseh, He can forgive you.
O, the gifts we leave on the table!
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: – Isaiah 48:18, Amplified Bible (AMP) Imagine that you are six years old, and it’s Christmas time. You’ve asked for a lot of things for Christmas, but there is one… Continue reading O, the gifts we leave on the table!
The broom of destruction.
I will also make it a possession of the hedgehog and porcupine, and of marshes and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts. – Isaiah 14:23, Amplified Bible (AMP) Confession: no one in my household likes to clean. But, when things get so bad that we can’t stand it… Continue reading The broom of destruction.
Looking for help in all the wrong places
For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had defeated him, for he said, Since the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. – 2 Chronicles 28:23, Amplified Bible (AMP) I am… Continue reading Looking for help in all the wrong places