The Lord is our Provider. We learned this last time in Part Nine. Today's lesson is a hard one and the basis of the series as it was first given to me, a bitter pill indeed but necessary to our lives as Christians: "And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven...
Last time we talked about forgiveness and the Lord's expectations of us in this matter. Today we move on into an area that challenges all Christians everywhere, and that is temptation. We are all tempted, as was Jesus Christ Himself, but God does make a way for us to...
Prayer impacts so know from the start that when you pray for others, it may cost them dearly. When Pharaoh announced that every male child born to an Israelite should be destroyed, Jochebed's prayers for her infant son, Moses, must have been heartbreaking. Yet she had...
Today we come to the end of our series on The Lord's Prayer. This will be our surrender to our King. We will denounce any praise that comes our way as we point to the one true God as the author of all good things and deserving of any and all honor and glory and...
Should Christians fast today? If so, how and why should they fast? Below is an overview of fasting in the Bible from the Harper Bible dictionary: "fasting, abstention from food. In the Old Testament there are two kinds of fasting, public and private. Public fasts were...
"Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me." (Psalm 50:15) In the Florida Keys there’s a landmark bait and tackle shop named Capt. Hook’s. It’s crammed full of fishing items and eclectic paraphernalia. Small signs dot the walls,...
Dear Jesus, You are the Son of God, and you went through an agonizing passion for me and everyone in the whole wide world. In the Garden of Gethsemane you sweated great drops of Blood due to your agony. You were arrested and the soldiers put a crown of thorns on your...
"I, the Lord Jesus, want my people to love me with all their hearts, with all their souls, with all their minds and with all their strength and to love their neighbor as I have loved them. My people, I love you so much that you sometimes don't understand the extent of...
Here is a witty saying that came home to me with the force of reality some time ago – ‘Be careful what you pray for, it might come true.’ My friend from overseas concluded her letter with a prayer that I would have a lovely weekend, filled with warmth and sunshine. At...
Continuing with my series on who really IS THE BOSS in our workplaces, today I want to place before the readership one more instance in the Scripture, where the good Lord has influenced the authorities to look favourably upon His loved ones'. Here we go… Palace Now...