Peace has been stripped away, and I have forgotten what prosperity is. I cry out, “My splendor is gone! Everything I had hoped for from the Lord is lost!” The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words. I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve …
Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall. With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility. But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of …
You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 2 Timothy 3:10-11 NIV We can learn …
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 NIV What is king Solomon saying here? What has the Lord laid on his heart? If we believe we are in a spiritual battle every single day we walk with our Lord, we must acknowledge that the weapons our …
Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God. Proverbs 30:8b-9 NIV There’s wisdom in realizing …
Then Jesus said, “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.” Mark 4:9 NIV Mark records Jesus making this statement at the conclusion of the parable of the sower, in which Jesus gives us an analogy to the different ways the word of God can impact a life. The parable …
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1 NIV As David experienced the dry desert heat and the painful thirst that followed, he found an …
For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. Psalm 109:2 NASB If you’ve ever been falsely accused, and most of us have at one time or another, you know how frustrating it can be. If it’s of a …
The duty of the Levites was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the temple of the Lord: to be in charge of the courtyards, the side rooms, the purification of all sacred things and the performance of other duties at the house of God. They were in charge …
On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, …