1 Peter 4:14 – “If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.” Being insulted and hurt isn’t a nice experience. Often, we allow the bitterness and anger against that person fester inside us and hurt us even further. But in […]
Psalm 32:8 – “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.” Where do you look when you need information about a particular topic? In earlier days, we might have turned to encyclopaedias or library books to gain understanding. But right now, […]
Jeremiah 32:40 – “And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.” God made a covenant with the Israelites that even though they may scattered across many countries, […]
Exodus 23:25 – “And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” What does it mean to serve? The dictionary defines it as performing a duty for another person, rendering assistance, being of use, or working […]
Psalm 1:3 – “that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” This Psalm speaks about two groups of people: friends of God, who he calls righteous and enemies of God, who we call godless. The wicked who live in disobedience to God’s law […]
Stop. Read these out loud before you go about the rest of your day. Holy Spirit power is in you! I am gentle and quiet of spirit. 1 Peter 3:3-4 I am a child of God. God Knows me. 1 John 3:1 The Lord send me power, peace, and prosperity. Jeremiah 29:11 In all situations, […]
Psalm 94:12 – “Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law…” In this scripture, the psalmist tells the bad rulers that God sees what they are doing and then describes life when rulers are good. The Psalmist attempted a useless mission – to help the senseless and […]
Deuteronomy 1:30 – “The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes.” Deuteronomy is the fifth book of Moses. It is a record of what Moses said to the Israelites to prepare them for life in the country, […]
James 1:3 – “The trying of your faith worketh patience.” James, the brother of Lord Jesus and a leader in the Jerusalem church, wrote this letter to the Jewish Christians, who left Israel to live in other countries because Christians were being troubled. James lived to serve God and the people of God. Thus, he […]
Hebrews 8:12 – “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” This scripture refers to the new, second covenant that God made with Israel. The first time the covenant was made between God, via Moses and His people, to rescue them from the Egyptians. […]
