Shishak thought this was a military expedition, but he was coming to teach a seminar for God. “The kingdom is the Lord’s, and He rules over the nations” (Ps 22:28). So wrote David. And why are certain kingdoms allowed to expand and others forced to shrink? Paul explains, “He has made from one blood every nation of […]
When it comes to getting the gospel out, it’s easy to feel like the Lord can’t use us. After all, we aren’t much. But little is much when God is in it! […]
“Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of […]
The apostle Paul prayed this for the saints: “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know…” (Eph 1:17-18). A.W. Tozer writes: Man by reason cannot […]
“Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become…too proud to pray to the God that made us.” —A. Lincoln It’s an old line: “Denial is not just a river in Egypt.” But it’s a fitting title to the next chapter in Rehoboam’s life. “Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened […]
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“Consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law. Plead my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word” (Ps 119:153-154). I think we need to remind ourselves that the Lord never sees the distresses of His children without exactly understanding their situation and extending to them His help. […]
D.L. Moody writes: During the last days of the Civil War many men were deserting from the South. Secretary Stanton gave notice that no more refugees be taken into the Union army. A Southern soldier hadn’t heard, and came to the Union lines where they read him the order. He didn’t know what to do. […]
“Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me” (Rom 15:30). The word “strive,” when Anglicized, becomes agonize and literally means “to struggle in competing for a prize, or figuratively, to contend with an adversary.” […]
Is Jesus ever addressed as God in the Bible or is He so described? Anticipating our Lord’s birth, an angel quoted Isaiah’s prophecy, applying it to Jesus: “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us” (Mt […]