Habakkuk 2:4 – “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.” “Pride goes before destruction”.(Proverbs 16:18) Pride separates us from God, it is self-serving, self-seeking, it points to one’s self achievements, it produces a puffed up soul. Pride distorts reality and can give the proud […]
Psalm 111:1– “Praise the Lord! I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, In the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.” Praise the Lord is a greeting among believers in some parts of the world which should not be taken for granted as merely a greeting like ‘hello’ or ‘goodbye’, but taken […]
Zephaniah 3:17 – “The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, … He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” When we are feeling down, lonely, lost, sick, in despair, confused, anxious, unsure about so many things in life, we must […]
John 15:10 – “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” The dictionary defines obedience as “compliance with an order, request, or law, or submission to another’s authority”. To what extent are we willing to obey and comply with God’s commandments? Jesus “was” […]
John 15:9 – “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.” Our Jesus is sweet and gentle, and at the same time assertive when He commands us to ‘abide’ in His love, to ‘remain’ in His love. He reminds us that “He has told us this so that His joy […]
Lamentations 3:24 – “The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I hope in Him.” In verse 17 of Lamentations 3, the prophet says that he has been deprived of peace. Unfortunately all of us have gone through some hardship; have been afflicted; have been mistreated; suffered emotional harm; and have similarly been deprived of […]
1 John 4:17 – “Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgement; because as He is, so are we in this world.” When we continue to abide in God and make it our decision to remain in His Love, His love is then made perfect in […]
1 John 4:16 – “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” There is a striking difference between love and hatred, and they are absolute opposites. One produces joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, […]
Psalm 66:4– “All the earth shall worship You And sing praises to You; they shall sing praises to Your name.” Did you know that Jesus “calls forth songs of joy?” (Psalm 65:8). Like a music conductor, a very able One, not conducting instruments made with human hands, but conducting worship with songs of joy from […]
1 Peter 1:19– “but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious […]
