“The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.
He restores my soul;
He guides me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.” (Psalms 23:1-3 NASB’95)
There is all kinds of craziness and unrest going on in the world...
Peter and John were arrested and put in jail for teaching the people about Jesus Christ and concerning his death and resurrection. The next day they were brought before a Council and questioned about the healing of a man who was lame from birth, and Peter took this opportunity, as he was filled...
“But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from...
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one...
“Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. For the time already past is...
“Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone...
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your...
“So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him...
This Was Then
I am reading in Matthew 10. Jesus was sending his twelve disciples out to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” i.e. to those physical descendants of Abraham (and Sarah) who had not yet believed in Jesus as the Christ (the Messiah), the promised seed of Abraham, who was to...
“And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, ‘Save us, Lord; we are perishing.’ And he said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, O you...
Here is Your God!
“Go on up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;
lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
‘Behold your God!’
Behold, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for...
When God calls you to obey Him,
Do His will, and not betray Him,
Count the cost, ‘twill not be easy,
Not for fun, and not be breezy.
Not for you, and not for pleasure,
Not so you lay up your treasures,
But so you obey Him freely,
Do His will and not what’s feely.
Go with Him where’re He leads...
Now the Scriptures talk much about us listening to the Lord and him speaking to our hearts, and they teach us that God does speak to us and that the Holy Spirit is our counselor, teacher, helper, and guide. So we have to be able to hear the Lord speaking to us, not necessarily audibly, but in...
Paul and Barnabas were servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, called by God to take the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people, to both Jew and Gentile. And so they traveled from place to place sharing the message that Jesus taught which is that if we are to come after Christ Jesus, we...
All of us who have put our faith in Jesus Christ to be Lord (Owner-Master) and Savior of our lives have been called of God to his service. All of us have been given spiritual gifts of the Spirit of God to be used to minister to the people of God and to the people of the world, and we have been...
The Lord Jesus led me to read varied scriptures on the subject of our calling.
Do you know what your calling is? Are you a follower of Jesus Christ? Have you been born again of the Spirit of God? Are you indwelt with the Holy Spirit? Then, you have been called of God to be someone in...