God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
If we could only realize that now is the most important moment for us in our lives, then a wonderful new outlook would overtake us. All of a sudden each relationship would be a blessing and a potential opportunity for each of us to grow closer together and to God. Every minute of our lives... Continue Reading →
What lies outside the capabilities of human beings is where God is the specialist. His plans for us overshadow anything we could possibly dream of. Our lives can touch so much more than we see. So why don´t we offer them up to the Lord and let Him define what can and cannot be done?
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 1st Peter 5:10 NIV The mosquito had gotten the better of him. He fell deathly ill. Malaria set in, and with... Continue Reading →
As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. 1st Peter 4:2 NIV The two men had grown up together. Now they were both recently married. They left their wives at home one day and drove down into the... Continue Reading →
Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death. Hebrews 11:19 NIV Nobody imagined that it was so serious. When the mother of a family stayed in bed with a cough and a slight fever, her daughters and husband thought that she just needed to... Continue Reading →
In the one case, the tenth is collected by men who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living. Hebrews 7:8 NIV Sitting in church one day the offering plate came around. His heart was not completely behind his giving that day. The teenager wanted to give to... Continue Reading →
Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. Acts 20:30 (NIV) We have been warned that in our day men would distort the truth. But who are these wolves that will not spare the flock of God? Could they be the ones... Continue Reading →
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me--the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace. Acts 20:24 (NIV) Not everyone can expect the same for their future as Paul was led to know would... Continue Reading →
As John was completing his work, he said: 'Who do you think I am? I am not that one. No, but he is coming after me, whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.' Acts 13:25 (NIV) Paul draws his listeners of every generation to consider the past. He points out how men touched... Continue Reading →
When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13 How many unschooled, ordinary men and women have been strengthened, enlightened and enabled to do mighty works for the Lord? Is... Continue Reading →
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