Month: May 2008

Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid.  Go home and do as you have said.  But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.  For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says:  ‘The […]

The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to deliver Midian into their hands.  In order that Israel may not boast against [M]e that her own strength has saved her, announce now to the people, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’ ”  So twenty-two thousand […]

The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?”  He said, “A staff.”  And   [H]e said, “Throw it on the ground.”  And it became a snake; and Moses drew back from it.  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach out your hand, and seize it by the tail” – so he reached out […]

But David said to the Philistine, You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied….that all this assembly may know that the LORD does not save by sword and spear; […]

And He said to them, “Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while,”  For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat. Mark 6: 31, NKJV Dear God, please allow us to sit in Your presence and listen to Your voice.  Amen Life gets […]

Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.  Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven,  for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5: 11, 12, NKJV Heavenly Father, we are grateful that wherever […]

I am the gate.  Whoever enters by [M]e will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. John 10: 9, NRSV  Dear Lord, our hearts rejoice as we enter Your presence, to study Your Word.  Please draw divinely close to us, and teach us, for Christ’s sake; Amen Today, our promise speaks […]

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night.  He shall be like a tree planted by […]

What then shall we say to these things?  If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8: 31, NKJV Holy God, here we are waiting on You to lead us into all truth, in the name of Jesus, Amen Today our promise is short, and to the point; but powerful, and extremely […]

On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her [H]e called her forward and said, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” […]