DAY 232 OF 365 IN 2021 Reference text: Ruth 1:1-22 LIFE'S CURVEBALLS Ruth 1:16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. I came... Continue Reading →
GOD HAS MADE UP HIS MIND ABOUT YOU
DAY 229 OF 365 IN 2021 Reference text: Judges 6:11-24 GOD HAS MADE UP HIS MIND ABOUT YOU Judges 6:11 The angel came and sat under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. It was there that Gideon, his son, was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide his activities from the... Continue Reading →
NO MIXING!
DAY 226 OF 365 IN 2021 NO MIXING! Joshua 24:23 He said, “Remove the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh the God of Israel.” Students of metallurgy and the material sciences are familiar with alloys. Even from basic chemistry, we gain an understanding of what the concept of... Continue Reading →
THE SYSTEM OF ADVANTAGE
DAY 225 OF 365 IN 2021 THE SYSTEM OF ADVANTAGE Joshua 24:13 I gave you a land for which you never worked and cities that you didn't build, but that you have lived in. You're eating from vineyards and olive groves that you didn't plant. There is enough evidence to the effect that "hard-work produces... Continue Reading →
“IT IS GOOD THAT WE ARE HERE”
DAY 218 OF 365 IN 2021 IT IS GOOD THAT WE ARE HERE Mark 9:5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. Two words "good and here" - one... Continue Reading →
DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU
DAY 217 of 365 IN 2021 DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU Numbers 20:7-8 And the Lord said to Moses, Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to give forth its water, and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock;... Continue Reading →
THE GOD WHO KNOWS
DAY 210 OF 365 IN 2021 THE GOD WHO KNOWS John 11:21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother would not have died. Reading today's Gospel, it always felt a bit like Martha was holding Jesus accountable for the death of Lazarus. In the very least, that is one... Continue Reading →
YOUR FRUITBEARING POTENTIAL REMAINS INTACT
DAY 205 OF 365 IN 2021 Reference text: Matthew 13:24-30 YOUR FRUITBEARING POTENTIAL REMAINS INTACT Matthew 13:30 Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the harvesters, "First gather the weeds, and bind them into bundles in order to burn them; then gather together... Continue Reading →
STEP INTO ‘HIS TIME’
Reference text : Exodus 12:2-10 DAY 197 OF 365 IN 2021 STEP INTO 'HIS TIME' From the reference text, it wasn't that the people of Israel did not have a calendar, or that they did not live in time, they did. But God had to bring them into 'His time' - there was a need... Continue Reading →