Looking back in your life, can you “see” how God has worked in your life? Think about where you are today compared with five years ago. Throughout life, unexpected circumstances can be improbable, uncomfortable… to you.Only God can work in your circumstances which may take you by surprise.Can you say, “Only God could have done […]
Jesus was intentional ~ you are that important to Jesus!He turned His face toward Jerusalem, knowing what would happen there.(NASB) Matthew 16:21 “From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised […]
Jerusalem ~ PastKnown as Salem in Genesis 14:18Jebus in Judges 1:21; 19:10David’s capital in 2 Samuel 5:5-6. Jerusalem, the site of the temple of Solomon,see 1 Kings 6:2; 8:6, 12.It was destroyed in 586 BC by Babylon,see Jeremiah 52:12-14.It was rebuilt by a remnant of Israelites in days of Nehemiah,see Nehemiah 2:11-20; 12:27.An occupied city […]
What scares you? What fills you with fear? In Israel, there is a real place called “the valley of the shadow of death”. Tour busses stop on an outcropping which hides the deep valley from the tourist’s eyes. If anyone walks out on the loose shell overhang, tour guides warn them of danger. If the […]
The disciples were a privileged group of 12 men, Jesus said so. Their eyes saw, their ears heard what “many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them.” Luke 10:24 NASB We know that […]
Listening… to the wrong music?Listening… to the music of praise to our God? Follower of Christ… are you listening… to the wrong music? Is the music you sing full of depressing thoughts, wasted years, wrong relationships? Follower of Christ… are you choosing to listen… to the music which praises our God? David looked at his […]
There are commercials about putting on a mask to appear happy when in reality your mind and emotions are caught in the dark place of depression. Follower of Christ: follow the example of David. David was on the run from King Saul and hiding in a cave in the Ein Gedi region of Israel. David […]
David was on the run… King Saul and his army were pursuing David and about 400 men in the wilderness of Ein Gedi. It is a barren place of rocks and sand and little water, little rain fall. What water there is, comes from springs in that arid region. Can you imagine living in one […]
In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd boy explored a cave in the wilderness area eight miles from the ancient city of Jericho. The Dead Sea can be seen from these wilderness caves. What did he find? He found jars with fragments of parchment in them. Later, many jars filled with fragments of Scripture were discovered in […]
There are 26 verses in Psalm 136. Each verse is a couplet and the second part of the verse is the same for every verse. “For His lovingkindness is everlasting.” Two questions come to mind as I write this devotional.Do I think of my life, my circumstances and see the LORD God at work in […]