Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1st Peter 5:8 NIV The explorers pulled the little boat that they had been traveling in for over a week onto the shore. There was no sign of human life anywhere to be seen. They... Continue Reading →
Spiritual Milk
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 1st Corinthians 3:2 NIV The woman looked down at her newborn baby asleep her arms. She had just experienced the miracle of giving birth to her first child. She was still in shock... Continue Reading →
Healing Hands
His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. Acts 28:8 (NIV) Time and time again we read in the Bible of a person suffering and then through the power of prayer and with the... Continue Reading →
Christ Is Coming
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 →
Knowing Man´s Heart
He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man. John 2:25 (NIV) As we read the accounts written in the Gospel of John, does it seem as if someone were relating to us of things they experienced or saw themselves? Is this a wonderful witness to us? Can... Continue Reading →
Spitting On Jesus
Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. Mark 15:19 (NIV) Jesus is betrayed into the hands of men bent on their own devious intentions. He is brought before council and accused of many things. In the end... Continue Reading →
The Three Temptations of Jesus
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Matthew 4:1 King James Version What can we learn from the story of the temptations of Jesus? Perhaps you feel like the Spirit has led you into a desert too, where you are bombarded every minute by the... Continue Reading →
