God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
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 →
He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to... Continue Reading →
For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5:28 (KJV) Doesn´t the story of the suffering woman who wanted to touch Jesus´ clothes seem to depict us today? Haven´t we all felt the pain of living in a world separated from our place with God and struggled with... Continue Reading →
And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. Mark 1:31 (KJV) What a beautiful scene is portrayed here. Simon´s mother-in-law is suffering in bed with a fever when Jesus and the disciples come into the house. When He hears that... Continue Reading →
And when they had platted a Crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying Hail, King of the Jews! Matthew 27:29 (KJV) If it has been some time since you have taken a few minutes to consider... 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 →
And Peter took him in hand and began to rebuke him, saying ¨Away with the thought, sir; this shall not happen to you.¨ But he turned and said to Peter ¨Go behind me, Satan; you are my snare because you do not have God´s ideas but men´s.¨ Matthew 16:22-23 (Byington) Over and over again we... Continue Reading →
Jesus said: ¨Leave this place, for the little girl did not die but is sleeping.¨ at this they began to laugh at him scornfully. Matthew 9:24 (New World Translation) Do you think that Jesus Christ came to the earth to help those people whose lives He touched back then in Palestine? Or are you of... Continue Reading →
And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people. (Matthew 4:23 American Standard Bible) So familiar are we to the story of Jesus that perhaps we rarely stop to think what was... Continue Reading →
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