"Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, "God has handed him over to me, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars." And Saul called up all his forces for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men." ...
"For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." (Habakkuk 2:3) How could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land? Ps: 137:4 The...
Text: Hab. 3:17-19, Job 13:15-16, II Cor. 12:7-10 Memory Scripture: "When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, there is a lifting up, and He shall save the humble person" (Job 22:29) INTRODUCTION: Naturally, one has a high tendency to be downcast discouraged and...
Today, Abraham is regarded as the father of faith. When all hope, as a human possibility, failed, Abraham placed his hope in God. Sure, Abraham had some anxious moments, but God did not count these against him. Abraham did not refuse to face reality. He chose to look...
There are too many Christians who are living below what God ever intended for us. As we look around us we are faced with the breakdown of the family, children and teen-agers acting out in disrespectful ways, financial difficulties, mounting physical afflictions and a...
"Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future." (Lam 1:9) The story is heart-wrenching: the demise of God's glorious people; the ruin of God's own city, the city of peace; the destruction of God's glorious temple; the desolation of the land...
Doubt can not be stopped, No matter how hard one tries. Disciples of Jesus doubted him Until they saw his cold corpse rise! At least ten of them were tortured to death, Accused of telling monstrous lies. Still, they stuck to their wild story. This, no historian...
Don’t forget, What is the enemy after, in the end? Our faith. And if our faith can falter,then we’ve lost the upper hand. Though hearts break around us,and lives are abruptly shortened; we must, with all the faith we can muster, draw courage again. We must live now...
Ask yourself. What direction do you want to take? Smooth as water, which knows its way; or fighting the current for wasted gain? Let go. Don’t hold on tight. God’s river runs wide, and carries us all. His blessings kept safe, and His purpose sure, in His river of deep...
The following devotional is the third in a short series focusing on Daniel 3: Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego in the fiery furnace. "So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and . . . they saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a...