It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law. – Psalm 119:126, KJV There will be times in your life when you will look at the world around you, and you will remark to yourself, “This world is so messed up, and there is nothing I can do about… Continue reading One person CAN make a difference.
Category: Restoration
Lessons from a boy-child evangelist.
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22, KJV A young, mischievous boy committed a naughty, household crime. His mother, catching him in… Continue reading Lessons from a boy-child evangelist.
A danger for us all.
For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise and scorn Me and break My covenant. – Deuteronomy 31:20, Amplified… Continue reading A danger for us all.
Here’s the key to healthy living.
By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature. – 2 Peter 1:4, Amplified… Continue reading Here’s the key to healthy living.
How would you like to stand in the presence of God? Actually, you do – every day.
Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep and guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. – Exodus 23:20, Amplified Bible (AMP) In Exodus 23:20, God made His chosen people three wonderful promises: to guide them in the way they should go, to guard them against their enemies, and… Continue reading How would you like to stand in the presence of God? Actually, you do – every day.
What would you do to save your father?
Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers. – Genesis 44:33, Amplified Bible (AMP) Years before, motivated by jealous rage, all the brothers of Joseph, save Reuben, desired to kill their youngest… Continue reading What would you do to save your father?
Don’t forget to wash up every day.
Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal… – Exodus 30:18, KJV In Galatians 3:24 Paul calls the Law of the Old Testament a schoolmaster. Indeed, the Law taught the Jews many lessons about how to interact with God, and The Lord reiterated many of those… Continue reading Don’t forget to wash up every day.
An offense unaddressed is a relationship lost.
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. – Matthew 18:15, KJV Dr. Ron Comfort, Founder of Ambassador Baptist College and an evangelist for roughly sixty years, was speaking at a revival meeting at… Continue reading An offense unaddressed is a relationship lost.
Life is filled with irony – and so is God’s Word.
Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]… – Revelation 3:19, Amplified Bible (AMP) Life is filled with irony. Take, for example, today’s (January 6, 2014) news headline from the New York Post: Coast Guard to Save Ships Trapped in Antarctic Ice.… Continue reading Life is filled with irony – and so is God’s Word.
Be prepared to be opposed when you turn unto God.
Then [the guiding angel] showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at Joshua’s right hand to be his adversary and to accuse him. – Zechariah 3:1, Amplified Bible (AMP) Imagine that you are six years old, and the heavy rain you’ve been watching from the window… Continue reading Be prepared to be opposed when you turn unto God.