God loves to find His children yearning after Him and seeking His presence. Please find encouragement here to embrace that quest.
In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Hebrews 2:10 NIV Grow up, go to school, get a job, find someone and get married and then start a little family. It sounded so simple... Continue Reading →
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. 1st Corinthians 9:13 NIV The small party... Continue Reading →
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; Romans 5:3 NIV Modern man tries to talk himself up. We boast. We revel in our own praise. But we do not like to admit our weaknesses. We hate to suffer. If only we could see that those... Continue Reading →
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. Acts 5:41 (NIV) Oppressed, despised, locked away and beaten. All they want to do is to share with others what they have found in Jesus. But the zeal of the Disciples brings them into disfavor with... Continue Reading →
Then " 'they will say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cover us!" ' For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" Luke 23:30-31 (NIV) They have condemned Him to death. Now they are leading Jesus off to be crucified. They... Continue Reading →
where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. Mark 4:2 (NIV) Jesus is led into a deserted place where He found Himself tried and tested to His limits. He was hungry and removed from the help of family... 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 →
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