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…
Pray, then, in this way... Matthew 6:9-13 Our Father who is in heaven: How thankful we are dear Father that You have called us out of the darkness into the light to be called Your children, that You have redeemed us from our slavery to sin and adopted us into Your family and called us…
To what has God called us? Holiness! I did not come to call the righteous but sinners. Matthew 9:13 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous…
Every day the Lord shows us more and more the importance of studying the word of God and understanding its truth. We hope the reader too will understand the necessity of studying the word of God day and night in order to come out of the darkness that surrounds us and not perish in the…
I am often asked why I am not interested in attending someone’s church, or why I ever quit attending church. I can only speak for myself, but believe that there is a remnant of others like me whose greatest desire is to know and love God and enjoy the fellowship and communion of His saints,…
It seems that so much of our world, including what people think of as the church, is in darkness and in dire need of the knowledge of the truth. And yet there are so very few today who are willing to listen, let alone who earnestly desire to know the truth. Rather, they are only…
The one who feeds only his flesh hungers forever, but he who feeds his soul the truth will never want. Just as there are things that are sweet to the taste buds on our tongues and which our bodies crave as pleasant and enjoyable, so are there those spiritual truths of Scripture which are sweet…