So, when someone smashes a Babylonian baby against a rock, that’s an occasion for rejoicing. YAY! In the land of the living there are tensions. Some of those tensions come from our own memories of our sins and others from the memories of harms done to us or our loved ones. ...
knowing my life is forever in your hands as I pursue the plan you place on my life and encouraging others to do the same. The definition of the word trust is “firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.” Trust in God is having a firm faith...
I risk having my mind changed. To pray for others is to consent to experiencing the cross. It may be as simple as dying to my own desires for a particular outcome, or dying to my desire to do something other than to respond to someone’s need for...
At that time they came to him and said: “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Jesus took up a little child and placed it on his lap and said: “Unless you turn and become like this little child, you shall never enter the kingdom of heaven.” The little ones snuggle ...
Those who set up these so-called 'churches' are never motivated by some strong desire to see people turning their lives to God - with the hope of them living a joyful, peaceful, and sinless life, or entering heaven - but, it is all about the money and power!
For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it. [Hab 2:3, 14, 20 NLT] 3 This vision … will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed. … 14 ...
s weaknesses. The Lord will not short-circuit the process of growth. In my case, only when I began praying to see my own part, to overcome myownweaknesses, to know howIcould change did I find peace. How often had I been, in effect, confessing someone else’s sins in my prayers ...
1) From theOld Rite Prayer Bookunder the heading, “To pray for someone more diligently”: “Save, O Lord, and have mercy on Thy servant(s)___ [bow], Deliver him (her, them) from every tribulation, wrath and need [bow], From every sickness of soul and body [bow], Forgive him...
Here lies the reason why many people don't enter into a deep fellowship with God. They repent only with their lips and not with their heart. They confess their sins to Him. But they don't confess to their fellowmen when they have sinned against them. To say to someone, "I'm sorry,...
It was common when someone was sick to suppose that he had committed some sin that caused the sickness. That is what Job's "friends" supposed. Some time after Jesus healed a paralyzed man at the Pool of Bethesda, he saw him in the temple, and said, "See, you are well again. Stop...