"He who waters will also be watered himself" (Prov. 11:25 NKJ). Our English language sometimes confines our understanding of Biblical principles. Twice in this verse we find a form of the word water. At face value, we could assume we are being told here that if we...
"He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world" (1 John 4:4 NKJ). Someone once asked me why a football never gets deflated in a game. Twenty-two huge, burly men kick it, throw it, pounce on it, fumble it - yet it never gets "squashed" or loses its size to...
"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?" (John 12:5). Mary is remembered for breaking an alabaster box and anointing Jesus for burial with costly spikenard ointment. Judas Iscariot was critical of the action, placing a cash...
"How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them?" (Deut. 32:30). You and I really do not need another sermon on the necessity and value of unity and teamwork. Common sense tells us that cooperation is vital to...
Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. (Deut. 33:29) He was in tears and visibly shaken by his circumstances. He was the proprietor of a local doughnut shop and had been doing well until trouble came his way. An...
"My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever" (Ps. 73:26 NKJ). This verse was visibly demonstrated to me in an intensive care unit. Leitha, a friend of the family, was rushed to the hospital suffering from a severe heart...
"But at evening time it shall…be light" (Zech. 14:7 NKJ). This verse speaks of a phenomenon of light at evening. It refers to a future time when Jesus will bodily return to earth and His feet will touch down upon the Mount of Olives. According to verse 4…the Mount...
"Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in trouble..." (2 Cor. 1:4 NKJ). This is a case of "freely you have received, freely give." Each of us has received something from the Lord (in stress situations) that we can pass...
"He has made us accepted in the Beloved" (Eph. 1:6 NKJ). Accepted in the Beloved. What an encouraging word. In this world, with its constant search for affection, approval, and acceptance, it is good to know that we Christians are accepted in the Beloved. We do not...
"This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure..." (James 3:15,17). There is a sentence in the Anglican prayer book that reads: "Deliver us from the world, the flesh, the devil." That...
"These things says He who is holy. He who is true, …He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens: See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it…" (Rev. 3:7-8 NKJ). This verse presents an area called the transition zone....
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