“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1Thess. 5:16-18 The American holiday of Thanksgiving just passed. People travelling this way and that as they head home-theirs’ or someone else’s. Lots of food and drink consumed, lots of football. and parades watched. Lots of […]
“Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. As He stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met Him.” ~ Luke 8:26,27 People can become surprisingly comfortable living life as they embrace the presence of demons. You might say- That sounds crazy, who would do such
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” ~ Psalm 23;4 NKJV Recently I read a quote that basically said the following: “shadows can only be cast if light is present.” Dwell on
Job waited for God for healing and deliverance. Abraham had to wait 25 years for his legitimate son. Joseph spent 13 years in servitude and dungeons. Moses got his training for 4o years in the desert. David, a man after God’s own heart waited for 15 years to become king. These men all received
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” ~ Ephesians 6:12 NKJV Do you know who your real enemies are? I’m not talking about those awful relationships with certain people where
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in
“When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.” ~ “It is Well With My Soul, by Horatio Spafford Do you know the story of how this famous hymn came to be
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” ~ Yeshua, John 10:10 We know that good and evil are diametrically opposed. We know the words of John 10:10, the thief (the devil) comes
“When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. ~John 16:21 (NASB) When I hear the term transition these days my mind immediately thinks