God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
¨Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.¨ Matthew 26:41 (KJV) There are some bold new teachers out there these days which would have us think that there is more power in just one prayer. These confident people push the idea that we show... Continue Reading →
And going a little way forward, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: ¨My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me. Yet, not as I will, but as you will.¨ Matthew 26:39 (Reference Bible) How great the pressure must have been for our Savior that night in the garden... Continue Reading →
Then Jesus came with them to the spot called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples: ¨Sit down here while I go over there and pray.¨ Matthew 26:36 (Reference Bible) Every now and then life seems to get the better of us. Things stack up against us until our resistance breaks down and so does... Continue Reading →
¨Woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you go the rounds of the sea and the land to make one proselyte, and when you get him you make him more of a candidate for hell twice over than you are yourselves.¨ Matthew 23:15 (Byington) The Christian is a marvelous creature. Once we think we... Continue Reading →
But Jesus answered them ¨I tell you verily, if you have faith and do not doubt you will not only do this of the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain ´Be lifted up and thrown into the sea´ it will be done.¨ Matthew 21:21 (Byington) Jesus did some marvelous and amazing... Continue Reading →
And he said to them: ¨It is written ´my house will be called a house of prayer,´ but you are making it a cave of robbers.¨ Matthew 21:13 (Reference Bible) When Jesus went into the temple (church), He found that there were all kinds of business being carried out there. People were buying and selling... Continue Reading →
And said, ¨These last put in one hour´s work; still you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!¨ Matthew 20:12 Jesus lays out for us the concept of the first being last and the last being first. Read Matthew 20:1-16 We could dispute all day just... Continue Reading →
¨For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.¨ Matthew 18:20 In Matthew 18 verses 15 to 20, Jesus instructs His Disciples. As we read His words we are included in the company of those He reaches. We should take note as if we were... Continue Reading →
And after they got up into the boat, the windstorm abated. Then those in the boat did obeisance to him, saying: ¨You are really God´s Son.¨ Matthew 14:32-33 (Reference Bible) Have you ever wondered how you would have felt to witness Jesus personally performing some wonderful miracle? Imagine if it had been you and I... Continue Reading →
Have you ever tried to fix some problem with your computer by running some clean up or fix it program, only to find out that your computer runs worse afterwards? Sometimes when we try to improve it by running another program that makes changes, these changes that are made alter in some way how the... Continue Reading →
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