“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward! But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father […]
Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”(John 4:13-14 HCSB ©®) I am the living bread that came down […]
Many things are cyclical – many others are linear. Growing corn and cows are cyclical works. Start with a seed, move through the cycle until you have lots of seeds, and cornbread along the way. Start with a cow and a bull, move through the cycle until you have lots of bulls and cows, and cream and steak along the […]
Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been remembering that land they came from, they would have had opportunity to return. But they now aspire to a better land—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. […]
Your work of intercession for others and your work of representing the King of Heaven and Earth are founded in the identity of Jesus. Just as any priest in the temples in Israel gained their authority by being relatives of Levi, your relationship to your Brother, Jesus, is your authority for serving your God, Whose yoke you wear and Whose […]
How blessed are the pure in heart! for they will see God. (Matthew 5:8 Complete Jewish Bible ©®) Father, what needs to be purified in my heart today? Show me and purify me. Please show me my need and Your love and grace. Show me Your favor and change me into the likeness of Jesus!
When the Spirit of Jesus filled Peter, he was still Peter. The difference was like the change from a bud to a flower. Who he really was became real-ized. Expect the same as you surrender to who Yahweh says you are and walk in that identity. When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were […]
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. Love consists in this: not that we loved […]
In 15:11-31, Luke recorded Jesus telling a parable about a man who had two sons. Before the story was over, each of the sons referred to himself as a slave to his father. The father considered each one an heir, though, and proved it by giving them his possessions. Nothing meant as much to him as his sons did. Show […]
In the parable Jesus told about a man with two sons (Luke 15:11-31), by the end of the story, the wasteful, rebellious son was in the house, and the reliable, obedient son was outside. In the parable Jesus told about another man with two sons (Matthew 21:28-32), He drew a similar point for the Pharisees He was teaching: the tax-collectors […]