And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.New Living TranslationIn his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus....
“In his kindness, God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus, so after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation. All power to him forever! Amen.”1 Peter 5:10-11 No doub...
We still have sinful bodies and a new believer will quickly discover what it means to carry the cross every day and deny the sinful desires of the flesh choosing to instead follow the Holy Spirit that now lives inside them. Are we to struggle like this forever? And what of the rest of ...
so I can sleep peacefully at night while we wait for the medicines to heal – or at least to relieve pain that the cancer has caused. I am trying to shift my perspective from anger that my future that has been taken from me intogratitude, again, for all the days that I have been ...
Forty. Trench's remark is well worth study: "On a close examination we note it to be everywhere there [i.e. in Holy Scripture] the number or signature of penalty, of affliction, of the confession, or the punishment, of sin (Studies, p. 14). Nights. The mention of nights as well ...
19Jesus answered,“How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.20But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them,and on that day they will fast. ...
Pour into your children. More than work or fun, they matter. While we hope to have many, many years with them, that time of pouring into them is really very short. The time they are in your home is the best time to give it your all. ...
2. We have been bought with the precious blood of the Lamb. 1 Peter 1:18, 19 VIII. Scriptures well describes the tremendous grief experienced by those who have lost a loved one. Genesis 37:35"And all his sons and all his daughter rose up to comfort him; ...
Because of our sins, we, our kings and priests have suffered punishment. We have been punished by the sword and captivity. Foreign kings have taken away our things and shamed us. It is that way today. 8 “But now, for a short time, the Lord our God has been kind to us. He has ...
To Lucifer, the traitor and rebel who defied Deity and spread the woes of war in the heavenly courts. Christ is now our King and we worship him because we will it so. Had there been no atonement Lucifer would have been our eternal head and we would have worshipped him because he wille...