Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge these great people of Yours?—1 Kings 3:9
That so-called Bible religion in our times is suffering rapid decl
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“These (trials) have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed” (1 Peter 1:7, NIV).
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Read more…Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?—Isaiah 40:12
We must be concerned with the person and ch
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When He had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, He broke them and gave them to His disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so … The people ate and were satisfied. (Mark 8:6, 8a, NIV).
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Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.—Psalm 95:6-7
Cattle are driven; sheep are led; and our Lord compares His people to sheep
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Before I made you in your mother's womb, I chose you (Jeremiah 1:5, NCV)
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We adopted Miss Becky and she adopted us. My husband was the pastor of a church in South Florida and our family lived in Texas. Miss Becky became a
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from
But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.—Isaiah 40:31
It is possible to work far beyond the normal strength of the human con
Read more…I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.—Psalm 116:1-2
I think that some of the greatest prayers are prayer where you don't say one s
Read more…“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” James 5:16 (NIV)
The Pepto-Bismol colored blanket draped my shoulders, my legs crisscrossed over the sterile hospital bed. My body racked with sobs of unco
Read more…But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. —2 Timothy 4:5
A number of factors contribute to bad spiritual leadershift.
The economic squeeze. The Protestant ministry is notoriously unde
Read more…If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,’ even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.” Psalm 139:11-12 (ESV)
I’m OK.
There’s nothing to be afraid of.
Read more…"Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel." - Philippians 1:12
Are your life circumstances advancing the gospel? Can you see the Lord's hand in your life in such a way that all of your li
Read more…In the early morning hours of February 12th, I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit unlike anything I have ever personally experienced before. As I have sat with the Lord regarding the meaning of this encounter, He has graciously revealed the interp
Read more…"It's time to emerge!" I heard Holy Spirit shout this phrase into my spirit as we crossed over into a new season. Immediately I thought of Lazarus, as Jesus called Lazarus out of the grave, despite the unbelief of others. By all appearance's sake, La
Read more…Acts 14:17 AMP-yet He did not leave Himself without some witness [as evidence of Himself], in that He kept constantly doing good things and showing you kindness, and giving you rains from heaven and productive seasons, filling your hearts with food
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“One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” (John 5:5-6 NIV)
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“Listen, you women, to the words of the Lord; open your ears to what He has to say.” (Jeremiah 9:20a, NLT)
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For many years I led a small group of sixth-grade girls, and we often talked about issues going on in their midd
“Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.” Psalm 25:5 (NLT)
What are your memories of kindergarten?
Today, kids are expected to start reading, writing and 'rithmatic in their first year
Read more…For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to
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