Reference text: Luke 14:15-24 In our reference text, a window of entry was opened, an opportunity which the invited guests declined using very valid excuses: to take ownership of a new field, verifying the strength of oxen and spending time with a new wife. (vs 18-20). Once their seemingly valid excuses were relayed to the... Continue Reading →
PURSUING PROPHECIES
Reference text: Jeremiah 28:1-17 Jeremiah the prophet was swayed by the words of Hananiah, the prophet from Gibeon. One would have thought that a Prophet of Jeremiah's calibre should have been adequately equipped to read between the lines and identify a false prophecy. Instead, we see him respond 'Amen, may the Lord do so and... Continue Reading →
GROW IN DISCERNMENT
DAY 335 Luke 21:29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; The sons of Issachar in 1 Chronicles 12:32a were described as 'men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do'. Almost as though they could pick on the direction of the wind and... Continue Reading →
A SEARCH OF YOUR HEART
DAY 161 Deuteronomy 8:2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. Moses, speaking to Israel, does not hide anything but tells them that... Continue Reading →
A TWO-FOLD CORD
362/365 Matthew 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. Any kind... Continue Reading →
UNDERSTAND PATTERNS
309/365 We read a very strange text today, but it is one that calls us to action. It is the unusual story of seven brothers which is summarised as follows: Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman and died childless. The second and then the third married her, and in the... Continue Reading →
WHEN THERE ARE NO DETAILS
DAY 362 OF 365 IN 2021 WHEN THERE ARE NO DETAILS Matthew 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod... Continue Reading →