“He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing” (Zeph 3:17). The Lord really loves you. Calvary proves that! But does He like you? Does He seek your fellowship in order to, as the prophet writes, “rejoice over you with gladness,” or does […]
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Rev 13:16-17). I would […]
One of history’s most remarkable battles had come to a glorious close. What did it all mean? Along with glory and praise to the Lord and the enrichment of the people, here’s the divine assessment of the battle’s other results. “Then they returned…to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies” (2 […]
Read More… from December 19, 2024 — Delighted Army, Disastrous Navy
“Let such as love Your salvation say continually, ‘The Lord be magnified!’” (Ps 40:16). D.L. Moody writes: One of the happiest men I ever knew was a man in Dundee, Scotland, who had fallen and broken his back when he was a boy of fifteen. He had lain on his bed for about forty years, […]
In the book Two Pioneer Evangelists, the thrilling stories of Donald Ross and Donald Munro, is the following conversion account and the Holy Spirit’s convicting work: “One woman who attended gospel meetings held by Donald Ross in Annieshead [Scotland] was deeply convicted of sin,” but she “rose in a rage, saying that she would ‘never […]
There’s much more to the idea of singing our way to triumph than this story might first suggest. The singers were in front of the army and, no doubt in rhythm with the left-right, left-right, of the march, were chanting the words, “Praise the Lord, for His mercy endures forever” (2 Chron 20:21). The Hebrew for “mercy” is hesed, and […]
Read More… from December 18, 2024 — Start—And Finish—With Praise
“As God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us…was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God […]
“But the end of all things is at hand: therefore be serious, and watchful in prayer” (1 Pet 4:7). In his seminal book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman graphically paints a portrait of our times: “…in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling […]