Scripture:  I Chronicles 4:9-10 - And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying 'Because I bare him with sorrow'.  And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, 'Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!' And God granted him th...  Read More

Scripture:  Galatians 2:20 -  I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. The banana tree is sturdy and resilient even if it looks weak.  Unbelievable as it seems to be, no fire or typhoon can kill it.  Even if one cuts its body into a thousand pieces, it st...  Read More

Scripture:  Isaiah 49:16  -  Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands…”I once heard a popular preacher claim that if God had a refrigerator, the image of each of His elect children would be posted on its door!  What a comforting and true concept that is! Now  I don’t want to  sound irreverent like some who “reduce” the Lord God (as if they could) to being the “Man upstairs,” or their ...  Read More

Scriptures: (John 16:33 NKJ) “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation: But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (John 17:17) “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your Word is truth.The Christian’s physical life is called to a chaste and clean one. Spiritually that life is lived by faith and with a mind focused on serving the Lord a...  Read More

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:26 - And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.Here is an opportunity with a double edge swordOne end says suffer, and the other end says rejoiceI’m a servant of the Lord as a called candidateYet, I flee when I’m reminded of failures and mistakesAs the body of Christ, we all experience triumph...  Read More

Romans 12:6-9 – Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.Do you really understand th...  Read More

Scripture:  II Chron. 7:14  - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”There is a poem that says: “As children bring broken toys with tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God, because He was my friend.  But then instea...  Read More

Text:  Psalm 90:16-17 - Let thy work appear unto Thy Servants and Thy glory unto Thy children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish Thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it.If our worship or our faithfulness took on the characterization of a certain food, what would it be, or what would one rather it to be? Let's keep it uncomplic...  Read More

Scripture:  John 8:31-32 - .. you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Today’s selected Scripture verse, though quoted by so many, begs the question:  Why are so many  fleeing and eluding the truth?  We glimpse the  time-tested universal significance  of this question  as it was posed by the Judean governor, Pilate,  in John 18:38:  ‘What IS truth?’ and he had the Word made fl...  Read More

Scripture:  Ephesians 3:16 (CSB) - I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through His Spirit, …The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, were reminding them that in order to make a change, they must plug into the internal strength that only the Spirit can provide. Any external forces will do.  If you want spirit...  Read More

Scripture:  II Kings 4:8-10 - Now it happened one day that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a notable woman, and she persuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in there to eat some food. 9 And she said to her husband, “Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly. 10 Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and...  Read More

Scripture:  II Corinthians 12:1-10 - It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God ...  Read More

Scripture:  2 Corinthians 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.The Lord breaks into our sanctuaries for various reasonsHe removes what’s unpleasing, and replace what’s needed There’s little light shining from the place I liveSo, he breaks the areas that are ...  Read More

Ephesians 1:7 - In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.Hebrews 9:22 - In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.Revelation 1:5 - And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and ruler of the kings o...  Read More

Scripture:  Hebrews 11:17 “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son…”Abraham’s heart and faith were matured over time before he was required to make the ultimate test of sacrificing his son Isaac on the altar. He was first tested when God told him to leave his country and family and go to a land that He would show...  Read More

Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:45 (HCSB) -  “… the whole assembly will know that it is not by sword or by spear that the LORD saves, for the battle is the LORD’S.” Most of us are familiar with the biblical account of young Jewish David who slew the Philistine giant, Goliath.  (1 Sam. 17:16-52) It is worthwhile on occasion to revisit these events, just to sharpen our perspective when it comes to facing our...  Read More

Scripture:  Ephesians 4:32 - And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.So many things are going on around us as we are in the midst of a medical, cultural and spiritual pandemic. Some things we can see and identify and some things we cannot see or understand.  There is so much confusion, hatred, darkness and spiritual wicke...  Read More

Scripture:  Matthew 25:2 - And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.It's always wise to wait well when waiting, waiting well meaning waiting as ought- and of the greatest oughts there are, given of God's word, is the oughtness 'to love'.  Love's opposite cannot coexist with it, and it is called indifference.  When love touches indifferent water,it blushes ... "When the ruler of the feast ...  Read More

Genesis 4:3-8 says: And in the process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offeringCain and Abel were both taught how to worship and glorify God by their parents Adam and Eve. In the process of t...  Read More

Scripture:  Psalms 1:1-2  Blessed is the man that walkers not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitters in the seat of the scornful.  But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.Often, I think about my progress; how am I doing in the area of looking more like Christ; how am I doing walking from faith to faith.  Daily...  Read More

Scripture:  Deuteronomy13:4 (NASB) - You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.    One of my favorite comedians, David Adkins, a.k.a. “Sinbad,” once quipped to the single people in his audience, ‘Learn to be by yourself sometimes!’  He was urging the “unmarrieds” to appreciate the inherent upside of enjoyi...  Read More

Scripture - Genesis 29:30 Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years.Genesis 30:24 24 So she called his name [a]Joseph, and said, “The Lord shall add to me another son.”Even when we are messed upIt will never ruin or mess God upEven though the Lord gives us free willIt will never cancel His divine plans, stillAnd, ...  Read More

Scripture:  Ecclesiastes 1:9 NKJ -  What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.The man, King Solomon, King David’s tenth son and third King of Israel. His name is associated with many Proverbs and considered author of Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. Solomon was characterized to be the wisest, richest,  most influential king in  Is...  Read More

Scripture:  Joshua 1:8 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.Joshua is an example of a godly man who believed God’s Word and applied it to his life.  He knew the value of hearin...  Read More