“GO, FOR HE IS A CHOSEN INSTRUMENT OF MINE, TO BEAR MY NAME BEFORE THE GENTILES AND KINGS AND SONS OF ISRAEL.” ACTS 9:15 Here In this passage of acts, Ananias, who is a man of God, get a vision from the Lord telling him to meet Paul. Paul is a man who persecuted Christians [...]
ROMANS 12:12 “REJOICE IN OUR CONFIDENT HOPE. BE PATIENT IN TROUBLE, AND KEEP ON PRAYING.” There was a time in my life when I really struggled with patience. I think we all go through this at one point or another, and it can eat away at your happiness very easily. I would get impatient over [...]
1 SAMUEL 23: 14 “DAVID STAYED IN THE WILDERNESS IN THE STRONGHOLDS...” - S T R O N G H O L D - A PLACE THAT HAS BEEN FORTIFIED SO AS TO PROTECT IT AGAINST ATTACK. When reading about David, you’ll find many passages are similar to this verse, “in the strongholds”. Most of [...]
2 CORINTHIANS 4:7 “WE KNOW HAVE THIS LIGHT SHINING IN OUR HEARTS, BUT WE OURSELVES ARE LIKE FRAGILE CLAY JARS CONTAINING THIS GREAT TREASURE. THIS MAKES IT CLEAR THAT OUR GREAT POWER IS FROM GOD, NOT OURSELVES” Think of yourself as a clay vessel. Say you’re a jar, or a vase. If you’ve ever tried [...]
SONG OF SOLOMON 2:8 “LISTEN! MY BELOVED! BEHOLD, HE IS COMING,” When reading Song of Solomon chapter two, it’s titled the bride’s adoration. From verses eight through seventeen the bride speaks of the bridegroom. She describes her love for the bridegroom, she speaks of how she waits for him and is anticipating his coming. When [...]
"As she breathed her last-for she was dying-she named her son Ben-Oni." (Genesis 35:18) When Rachel gave birth to Benjamin, at first she named him Ben-Oni, which means “the son of my sorrow.” Later on in the same verse, Jacob named him “Benjamin,” which means “the son of the right hand.” When Rachel named her [...]
James 1:27 “Pure and undefined religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.” For a long time I was praying and asking I should be doing in my life. Later I was reading James, and I [...]
Hebrews 12: 1 “ Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” In this life you will have troubles, face obstacles, and you [...]
“... Who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to earth?’ Though you build high like the eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,” Declares the Lord. Obadiah 1:3-4 In our lives, many things we will go through. Throughout our days, success and failure [...]
We often hear from people something like “I’m busy, I don’t have time for..”. Even more, everyone is used to it, and is able to find thousands of excuses under the title of things they “have to do”. Actually, the list is endless. After one project, a new one always comes up, after fall quarter, [...]
