Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. Ps 51:2 (NLT) Have you ever been caught out doing something wrong? A tangled mess of emotions all come out at once… for me, apology and guilt spill out from me and go all over the place. It's not pretty. Ha! This is...
Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this? Esther 4:14 (NLT) With the glorious hindsight that hundreds of centuries and thousands of commentaries give you, the story of Esther seems straight forward. A girls beauty grants her great...
So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming...
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Deut 31:6 (NIV) STRENGTH SERIES – PART 7 This passage of scripture takes place at the moment when Moses passes...
That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Cor 12:10 (NLT) STRENGTH SERIES – PART 6 Paul was a man with many strengths. Through the NT...
“…but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isa 40:31 (NIV) STRONG SERIES – PART 5 The Israelites were few in number, only a remnant, and...
“So when he had eaten, his strength came back to him; for he had eaten no bread nor drunk water for three days and three nights.” 1 Sam 30:12 (NKJV) STRONG SERIES – PART 4 Human strength has its seasons. At times we brim over with it, and at other times it fails...
“Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” Judges 16:6 (NIV) STRENGTH SERIES – PART 3 Samson's birth was foretold by an Angel, he was given supernatural strength and was to never cut his hair as a sign of his devotion to...
“I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then.” Josh 14:11 (NIV) STRENGTH SERIES – PART 2 Caleb was 85 years old when he made this statement. It had been 45 years since he, Joshua and...
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Deut 6:5 (NKJV) STRENGTH SERIES – PART 1 Moses concluded his message to the Israelites around the Ten Commandments with the directive to love… The Message says...
