The man with the withered (shriveled) hand…went to worship God on a Sabbath in a synagogue.  This man heard Jesus as He taught from the Scriptures (our Old Testament).  This man saw Jesus look at him and say “Get up and come forward!”  This man did not ask for healing and notice that Jesus […]

Psalm 103:1-5 “PRAISE THE LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits – who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies […]

  Have you ever asked yourself, ‘Are my motives and thinking in line with God and His word?’   On a Sabbath (and many others times), Jesus knew the thoughts of those who wanted to “catch” Him so they could accuse Him.  Sitting in the congregation of a synagogue was a man with a withered hand.  […]

  How do you watch others?  Do you watch to accuse and condemn?  That is what the scribes and Pharisees were doing. (NASB) Luke 6:7 “The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He healed on the Sabbath, so that they might find reason to accuse Him.” The scribes and Pharisees indicted […]

   Jesus honored the Sabbath; He attended the synagogue on the seventh day of the week.    He attended the synagogue on a regular basis.  Some of His miracles were done on different Sabbaths in the synagogue. He was an active participant, for Scripture states He was teaching… Jesus taught from what is known by the followers […]

   Jesus taught that the Sabbath was made for people…and people were not created for the Sabbath.  Jesus demonstrated this several times when He healed people on the Sabbath and even did so in a synagogue.   The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week.  Yet, followers of Christ celebrate and worship God on […]

   Man’s rules, many times, take God’s commandments and narrow them.   Think about the Sabbath day in which Jesus and His disciples were walking through a field of ripened grain.  The disciples picked some of that grain, rubbing it with their hands to remove the outer husk.  Then they ate the grain.  Some Pharisees […]

 The following Scripture can be used as a basis for your prayer: (NASB) Isaiah 58:13-14 “If because of the Sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And all the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your own ways, from […]

Eleven days into 2013, and is your life pretty much the same as 2012?  If you are a follower of Christ, you have been given His life in you.  The old is gone, the new has come!  Isn’t it amazing that we, so often, live as if nothing has happened to us? What adjectives can […]

  Old wine and new wine are not mixed to drink.  The old wine, due to the “aging” process develops its “bouquet”, its flavor. New wine will become “old wine” as it ages, developing its flavor as it sits bottled on a shelf somewhere. People, many times, are slow to accept new ways.  They like the […]