You provided three examples of scriptures that are hard to understand: God’s killing 70,000 Israelites when king David took a census; God’s commanding that all men, women, children, and even animals were to be killed as His children took over the Promised Land; and Jephthah’s “sacrifice of his own daughter on the altar of sacrifice.” … Read More →
Category Archives: Knowing God
Are You Whole?
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He that remains in Me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit; because apart from Me you can do nothing at all.” Jn 15:5 If your life is filled with Jesus, you are whole. If not, you have an unfillable hole in your life. … Read More →
Look to Jesus
Look to Jesus for… LOVE ………………………DIRECTION ………………………WISDOM ………………………POWER LOVE To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. Jn 10:3 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Mt 10:30 And I also beg you, true yoke-fellow, help … Read More →
Growing in Christ
“Father, by bedtime tonight, I want to have done something in Christ that I could not have done on my own. What do You want me o do?” Pray this every morning before getting out of bed.
Eyes on Jesus
The following is from Charles H. Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Daily Devotional – It is the work of the Holy Spirit to turn our eyes from self to Jesus. Satan’s work is just the opposite. Satan insinuates, “Your sins are too great to pardon. You have no faith. You do not repent enough. You will never be … Read More →
Live in Him
In (God) we live, and move, and exist (have our being.) Acts 17:28 God is in all, and over all, and through all. Eph 4:6 It is God who is working in you… Phil 2:13 You are the temple of God, and His Spirit dwells in you… 1 Co 3:16 We have no choice about … Read More →
Come Home
On January 18, 2015 I attended Monrovia Fellowship for the first time. The evening’s theme was “Come Home.” Early in the meeting everyone was encouraged to stand, greet their neighbor and ask, “What reminds you of home?” We weren’t given the reason for asking the question, but in hindsight, it was to prepare the audience … Read More →
Surrender to Jesus
What follows are summaries of the Daily Devotional commentaries in Oswald Chambers’ classic My Utmost for His Highest. He devotes almost ten percent of his commentaries to the subject of surrendering our right to ourselves to Jesus Christ. If you are at that place in your life where you know that you can’t do a good … Read More →
God vs Victory and Loss
We can imagine winning or losing a race or some other challenge. Alternatively, we can also actually face the challenge and win or lose for real. However, whether imagined or real, victory and loss in this world are temporary in nature. They exist for a moment and then are history, though there are probably some … Read More →
He Remains In Us
God’s name is hallowed when He remains in us. How do we know that God remains in us? John answers, ” The one who keeps His commands remains in Him, and He in him. And the way we know that He remains in us is from the Spirit He has given us.” (1 Jn 3:24) … Read More →
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