Lord, there is no one like You.You are great;Your name is great in power.Who should not fear You,King of the nations?It is what You deserve.For among all the wise people of the nationsand among all their kingdoms,there is no one like You.They are both senseless and foolish,instructed by worthless idolsmade of wood!Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,and gold from Uphazfrom […]
Its short enough that most of us who were around church as kids had to memorize it. It is the go-to in 80% of our funerals. It is easy to make reading through it sound like “zabazabazabazaba…..zzzzz.” Try considering any problem you are facing or are concerned you will have to face, under the influence of this phrase in verse […]
He presented another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It’s the smallest of all the seeds, but when grown, it’s taller than the vegetables and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”He told them another parable: […]
If we are even just looking for His Kingdom, we will find the path to provision and protection and revelation and purpose. Even if we don’t know what the Kingdom of Heaven really is, searching for it will be rewarded with His presence in our lives in ways that keep us under His guard and having access to His storehouse. […]
The parable of the sower and the seed is about the Kingdom, not about how to be saved and born again: “You, then, listen to the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown […]
When your circumstances are creating misery or pain or fear, remember Joseph’s circumstances – he was in Pharaoh’s prison for refusal to submit to temptation. Though he was in Pharaoh’s prison, he was Yahweh’s prisoner. When Paul was in Caesar’s prison, he was Yahweh’s prisoner. They were being held in position for the moment at which they could offer audience […]
Of the honors and the privileges we receive in our lives, the greatest are gained in the events in which, because our hearts are broken or burning because of what stirs the heart of Jesus, we have been so harmed by the pain that He then trusts us to become the answers to the prayers we raise under the burden. […]
Yahweh wanted to sum up all things in Christ. He, in Christ, reconciled all things to Himself. We, in Christ, are being transformed into an offering to Yahweh. We are created in Christ for good works, which our God has laid out ahead of us to walk in (Ephesians 2:4-10). He “has saved us and called us with a holy […]
Until the great persecution broke out on believers as Luke described in Acts 8, apostles were the only decision makers in the ekklesia of the King. By the time the thrusting forth of everyone but the apostles from Jerusalem reached maturity, forcing all the believers to take up their ministries, there was a congregation formed in Antioch of Syria that […]
One day, Yahweh spoke to a man named Abram. Abram lived in Ur, which was the largest city in the plain of Shinar, which is the area in which Babel was built by Nimrod’s followers. Abram was a descendant of Noah’s son Shem. Abram is not mentioned as having accomplished anything great at the time Yahweh called him from Ur. […]