A daily walk in faith, hope and love
Luke 21:34 Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. Jesus highlighted three distractions an individual could face: Distracted by extreme pleasure and indulgence, Distracted by drunkenness, and Distracted by genuine worries of life The... Continue Reading →
In a message I listend to yesterday, a three fold key was given as the foundation for fruitfulness, which is a core mandate of every believer. These were wisdom, faith and power. Reading the Gospel this morning, the first pillar stood out quite a bit. As usual, Jesus used a parable to drive this home.... Continue Reading →
Reference text: Daniel 6 This chapter in Daniel details the story we know well as 'Daniel in the lions den'. The satraps or president's who intended to entrap Daniel wrote up the decree and brought it before King Darius. All he had to was "sign the written decree" and it became law". That was fairly... Continue Reading →
Daniel 5:14 I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom. There are times when men with malicious intent send words ahead of us, and that paints us in a shade that is limiting. In that case, we have every reason to bring... Continue Reading →
Daniel 2:32-34 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the... Continue Reading →
Daniel 1:5 The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. For the youths taken to Babylon, because their origin was... Continue Reading →
On my way in to work, I got on a bus that did not seem to have a time to set off. It kept waiting, and in fact, I managed to board because it was waiting. However, after a few minutes on board, the passenger notification for the doors to open went off. The doors... Continue Reading →
Luke 20:29-32 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. And the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. What kind of feeling does one have waiting for a known outcome that is not worth celebrating?... Continue Reading →
Luke 19:46 It is written,” he said to them, “’My house will be a house of prayer’ but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” A very unusual perspective came to mind while reading this Gospel. It begins with the text from 1 Corinthians 3:16 'Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple... Continue Reading →
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