God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” Luke 13:34 (NIV) Is this the first time we are considering God? Is it the first day... Continue Reading →
Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown." When he said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." Luke 8:8 (NIV) Painting by: George Wonenberg Jesus is teaching. People come to Him from all around to... Continue Reading →
"Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" But they did not understand what he was saying to them.’ Luke 2:49-50 (NIV) Jesus was twelve. He had traveled with His family to Jerusalem. On His families return home they did not see Him all... Continue Reading →
After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. Mark 6:46 (TNIV) Jesus sent off His disciples in a boat and stayed behind to say goodbye to the crowd. As soon as He was alone, He went up the mountain to find a place to pray. The Son of God was a remarkable... Continue Reading →
And early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went outside and left for a lonely place, and there he began praying. Mark 1:35 (Reference Bible) There are some wonderful times of day to pray to the Lord our God. But few of them can compare to those early hours... Continue Reading →
But the men marveled, saying, what manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! Matthew 8:27 (KJV) Jesus had just calmed the sea and winds by the simple utterance of a few words. One minute the whole world seemed to be about to end for those out at sea... Continue Reading →
Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7 (King James Version) What a wonderful God we have and what wonderful promises fill the pages of the Bible. When we read promises such as this, we sense a world of power flowing... Continue Reading →
A lot is said these days about making a choice. Christianity is being thought of as just that. We are asked if we choose to make Jesus our Savior. Then, after we have agreed that we are sufficiently convinced in our minds and hearts that Jesus is the Son of God, the next step is... Continue Reading →
Searching For Christ 