“Beware…lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them…then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth’” (Deut 8:11, 12, 17). Material wealth often hides spiritual treasure. I like John’s description, that the Heavenly “city was pure gold, […]
“There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses” (1 Ki 8:56). Five hundred years later, Solomon declared God’s faithfulness; 2000 years after Christ’s promises, we recall His mercies, march through our difficulties, and say, “He never fails” (Zeph 3:5). […]
“Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun” (Ps 19:4). God brought Abram out of his little tent to look at God’s BIG tent (Gen 15:5). Paul uses these words in Romans 10:18 to speak […]
“Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Est 4:14). Did Hannah know the day God was searching for a prophet? Did David know the day He was looking for a king? There are no insignificant people in the Lord’s plan. Listen—He speaks! […]
“The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing” (Zeph 3:17). Facing a tough day? Then look at this! The Mighty One stands by, ready to save; the Happy God sings […]
“God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Num 23:19). Even Balaam knew this! And should we fail to live in the good of God’s promises […]
“For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel” (Ezra 7:10). You will have an influence on others today; you can’t help it. But what you can help is the kind of influence you are. No better prep than […]
“Better a handful with quietness than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind” (Eccl 4:6). Solomon reminds us (9x) that going after this world is “grasping for the wind.” Why run if you’re on the wrong road? Why fight if you’re in the wrong war? Make sure today is lived for […]
“For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s” (Rom 14:8). The believer understands both the how and why of life: “by faith” (Rom 1:17), “by every word of God” (Lk 4:4), “by the Spirit” (Gal […]