(After the feeding of the five thousand) Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. After He had sent the multitudes away, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there…
My sincere prayer for the reader is that the Lord would bless you in your desire to serve Him and that he would lead you in all truth. For despite the multitudes who profess a faith in Christ today, there seems to be a real lack of servants who earnestly desire to know and abide…
I shall also spread My net over him (the prince among God's people), and he will be caught in My snare (cf. Ez 17:19-21, 19:8-9, 32:2-3, Hosea 7:8-12). And I shall bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there. Ezekiel 12:13 Here…
Then (after destroying the whole house of Ahab) Jehu (whose name is related to Jehovah, the name of God) gathered all the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much. And now, summon all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let no one…
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches us to pray, "...And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil" (Mt 6:13). Also, as He arrived to pray at the Garden of Gethsemene just before the crucifixion, He warned His disciples saying, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation" (Lk 22:40). Shortly later,…
This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is slain the sin offering shall be slain before the LORD; it is most holy. The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the tent of…
But the land into which you are about to cross to possess, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.…
Discretion will guard you, understanding will watch over you...to deliver you from the strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words; that leaves the companion of her youth (Jesus), and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house sinks down to death, and her tracks lead to the dead; none who go…
A spiritual application learned from the garden. May 24 & 31, 1999 Some time ago my brother who lives in Japan and has a Japanese garden to care for asked about how I control the weeds in my garden. The next day as I was out working in my garden, pulling out the little weeds…
"Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land, not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for hearing the words of the LORD. And people will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will go…