When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.English Standard VersionWhen you pass through the waters, I will...
When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you’” (Isaiah 43:1-2). Grieving a Loved One’s Death or Facing Our Own Death “For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a ho...
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalm 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine...
If things make my life difficult, I remember that “this too shall pass.” I need to be thankful for every moment you give me and try to use it in the best way possible to glorify you. Lord, I find joy in seeking your will in my life. Help me to focus on you, rather than ...
“No time to worry about that,” I thought. (If you are interested in such matters, he had indeed lost the ability to swim – he had been a very able swimmer in life – but was by no means hydrophobic. In any event, Lake Johanna was shallow enough to wade through as we made our...
15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) 16 and said, “Brothers and sisters,[b] the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through ...
The Faith of the Centurion - When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion’s
March 31, 1972 3月31日, 1972 Others spent some time in church today, listening to one or maybe all seven words of the cross. And I wonder what the attended really understood—the great mystery. For we are told when they came to the place called the Skul
He captured something different in these lines and I realize that the One-Who-Sends-Us does want to reveal something of the Divine through each of us. With our birth we are meant to give God glory and point the way to the Creator. Some of us put the gifts we are given away from pu...
fear. Like Kenny Chesney sings, “I want to go to heaven, just not today.” The longer we live, however, the more we identify the lostness and deterioration of humanity. The sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit detaches us from the world as we grow and mature in our spiritual w...