We are susceptible in times of strength, because it is in our times of strength, when we are most full of the Spirit, that we pose the greatest threat to Satan and to his plans. When Scripture says Jesus was “led” it uses the Greek word “ágō” which means “to lead, or to t...
It means that the joy the Lord provides – not finances, not physical strength, not political power – is where our strength comes from. God gives us joy and from that joy we derive strength, even when life is hard. The phrase the joy of the Lord is my strength comes fromNehemiah 8:...
Words should be scattered like seed; no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength —Seneca Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within —Alfred, Lord Tennyson Her words still hung in the air between us like a ...
I’ve enjoyed reading Miller’s thoughts from those years ago—my grandparents were children in 1899—and the strength another person derived from these same verses as he read them in a different time. Miller writes, “Not many of us at least are living at our best. We linger in the lo...
Words should be scattered like seed; no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength —Seneca Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within —Alfred, Lord Tennyson Her words still hung in the air between us like a ...
Nwamgba can also be seen as a forerunner of the Igbo feminist in her display of physical strength and her demonstration of agency in her bid to solve problems that impinge on her including the efforts she made to recover her land which the relatives of her husband impound when he passes ...
“You don’t understand, Jesus. I’ve been here a long time. I don’t have anyone to put me in the pool. I can’t get to the water fast enough. Whether I want to or not, I don’t have the strength.” “Get up and pick up your bed.” And he was healed. ...
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but...
I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I ...
When you are dead, (using spiritual language) you still have the clothing of the dead. That clothing has brought your comfort. You thought that it would take away your shame and your disgrace. You thought that you could find significance, security and strength – and you hold really tightly...