Yesterday we considered the benefits of God and the Freedom (from) our iniquities, diseases, and hell… God blesses us by freeing us from these!Today we are focusing on the benefits of God and the Freedom (to) which the LORD God has blessed us, follower of Christ. NASB Psalm 103:2, 4b-52“Bless the LORD, O my soul,And […]
What Jesus did for everyone! Jesus took our sins, all of our sins, as if they were His sins and died on a cross – as a criminal.Jesus not only died in our place. He took our place on the cross, He took the punishment my sins and your sins deserve. Only by asking Jesus […]
Do you feel that your life has been turned topsy-turvy? Do you believe that your circumstances are stacked against you? From the viewpoint of people in the last days of Jesus, He was “going down”, everything was “stacked against” Him. Satan entered Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus to the chief priests and officers of the […]
Choose Courage! You have got to be kidding?! Right? We are living in a world which is filled with fear. What does the Lord God of the Holy Bible say?“Do not fear…” What? How can anyone be without fear today?Because the Lord completes that phrase with “I am with you…”Isaiah 41:10a God Himself is with […]
From where are you taking courage and getting strength as we find ourselves in these days of life which are temporarily changing the way we live? From where are we to take courage and be strengthened? Game-changer! God’s word is a Game Changer!Read God’s word. Think about what God is saying to you.Believe God’s word […]
Always, always, be ready to change your motives, your thoughts, words and actions to please God Himself. Be ready to change your thinking to God’s way.
Jesus taught hard things to hear, which many refused, rejected or ignored when He said them. And His teachings are treated the same way today. What are you and I to think and do about the hard things Jesus taught? Do we ignore them because we don’t want to deal with them? If we consider […]
Why wouldn’t Jesus be welcomed in a village in Samaria? Bias comes to mind. Jesus was Jewish. The Samaritans were part Jewish and part whatever other country their family came from. Jewish men and women usually went around Samaria to travel between Galilee and Judea. Jesus chose to go through Samaria… He was going to […]
When I was about 12 years old, I became very ill, in fact I was dying.My father, an official in our local synagogue, heard Jesus was in the area. He left to ask Jesus to come to our home. He found Jesus in a large crowd, and desperation coloring his voice, asked Jesus to come […]
Jesus intentionally set His face toward Jerusalem. Prophecy would become history during that Holy Week.(NASB) Luke 22:1 “Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread which is called the Passover was approaching.” Jesus and His 12 disciples went to Jerusalem for this historic Passover. Why historic? Jesus became the Passover Lamb, sacrificed for the sins of everyone […]