I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.” John 17:9 This verse is so beautiful. Jesus prayed for you! Jesus was specifically praying for His friends who love and follow Him. He was praying for the […]
“Jacob set up a memorial stone in the place where He had spoken with him,” Genesis 35:14 There are events in all our lives that, looking back, had to be the hand of God at work. Maybe you bumped into somebody who helped you get your new job, or you […]
“Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for … Saul, for he is praying.” Acts 9:11. Has everyone else written off your Saul? ‘He is too far gone.’ ‘He is too hard, too addicted, too old, too cold.’ Joseph believed one day he would be reunited […]
“Even the youths shall faint and be weary,” Isaiah 40:30 If you bend a plant, once you release it, it goes back to its previous upright position, but if you keep bending it further and further, it could get broken and stay down. With stress, first, you bend, and then […]
“I have heard them crying out … and I am concerned about their suffering.” Exodus 3:7. For 400 years, Israel was enslaved by Egyptian taskmasters who oppressed them. You can understand their feelings of helplessness when you consider the areas in your life where you struggle for freedom from old […]
“A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension, but a patient man calms a quarrel.” Proverbs 15:18 In 2015, a study at UC Berkeley conducted by Adrianna Jenkins and Ming Hsu was released, it was discovered imagination may be the pathway needed to uncover patience. The study found that when we imagine […]
“The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host […]
“Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions” 1 John 3:18 In 1938 a group of researchers from Harvard University set out to answer the question of what habits led to a fulfilling life. They chose a group of […]
“A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart.” Luke 6:45. Where does goodness come from, and how can you cultivate more of it in your daily decisions and actions? Some people think goodness is a matter of the head and that right-thinking results […]
“And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.” John 17:5 These words reveal the deep relationship between Jesus and the Father. Jesus was not just a human being, but He existed before the world began, sharing glory with the […]
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,” 2 Corinthians 3:18. There is an old saying that, ‘You become like the company you keep.’ Paul explains it this way: ‘But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory […]
“For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,” Psalm 44:3. Once upon a time, a frog was running out of water, so he asked two birds to help transport him to a nearby pond by having each bird carry one end of a stick in […]
“To know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge.” Ephesians 3:19. Princess Alice was Queen Victoria’s daughter. When her son contracted an incurable disease called black diphtheria, the doctors quarantined the boy and warned his mother to stay away from him lest she gets infected. Yet she couldn’t. One day she overheard […]
“Bless the LORD, all you … who by night stand in the house of the LORD!” Psalm 134:1 God divided time into days and nights. So, you will have daytime experiences and night-time experiences. For example, you can have a night-time experience in a divorce court, in bankruptcy proceedings, in […]
“In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The […]