Philippians 2: 12 Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Do you remember the Disney movie Pinocchio? I had it on last week and was struck, as never before, with the commonality between that little wooden headed boy and Christians. The story goes that Geppetto, a wood carver by trade, made the little wooden […]
Psalm 91: 15 The Passion Translation I will answer your cry for help every time you pray, and you will find and feel my presence even in your time of pressure and trouble. I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast. I know I have written to […]
Psalm 91: 1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91 is one of the Bible passages that it really pays to meditate on. It is such a comfort. It is, however, a bit poetic. Let’s overlay New Testament ideology with it and […]
Matthew 8: 13 And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; let it be done to you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed that very hour. A Roman soldier, a centurion, asked Jesus to heal his servant. Jesus offered to go to the centurion’s home saying, “I will come and heal […]
Psalm 141: 3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. Yesterday we talked about longevity. You should expect to live a long life and be vital and vibrant. You have God’s promise on that. It is His will. Yet, we are not all living in God’s […]
Joshua 14: 10 – 11 Now behold, the LORD has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today. I am still as strong today as I was […]
1 Corinthians 13: 1 – 3 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to […]
