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 jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land.' " 1 Kings 17: 13, 14, NIV  Dear LORD, some commands call for much greater faith on our...

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 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 men left, while ten thousand remained.  But the Lord said to Gideon.  "There are still too many men.  Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there....The Lord said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will...

The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?"  He said, "A staff."  And   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 his hand and grasped it, and it became a staff in his hand- "so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you" Exodus 4: 2-5,...

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; for the battle is the LORD's and e will give you into our hand....So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, striking down the Philistine and killing him; there was no sword in David's hand." 1 Samuel 17: 45, 47, 50,...

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 busy, does it not?  And we follow its trend.  We believe that if we do not "keep up," life will leave us behind.  After reading this passage of Scripture, let me whisper a secret in your ears:  we set the pace of our life!  Isn't...

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 we are gathered to study Your word You have promised to come among us.  Please fulfill this promise to us today, we pray.  For Christ's sake; Amen Today our promise is taken from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.  To many, these teachings of Jesus are...

I am the gate.  Whoever enters by 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 about Jesus as the gate.  This is a rather interesting metaphor, because of what a gate represents.  I am going to make it more personal by saying that He is our gate.  One of the most important functions of a gate is to offer protection to those that...

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 the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.  The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.  Therefore the ungodly shall not stand...

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 encouraging!  If we believed this with all our hearts, nothing, or no one, would be able to discourage, or, defeat, us.  The apostle begins by asking a question, and then answers his own question with another question.  Together, we will look at some of these things,...

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 e called her forward and said, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." Then e put is hands on her and immediately she straightened up and praised God. Luke 13: 10-13, NIV Gracious God, we praise You for Your power to save, and to set us free. May our minds be set free to learn the lessons You have...