Psalm 25:1, 4-5 – In you, Lord my God, I put my trust. Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. 5 Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. For the greatest of the concerns of the soul we trust in Jesus, we trust only in…
Continue ReadingProverbs 29:13 – The poor and the oppressor have this in common: The Lord gives sight to the eyes of both. An old man, a simple man, sat at a table at the same restaurant that he frequently visits. He sits by himself, as he is often found doing. He likes the restaurant because it seems like it is…
Continue ReadingJeremiah 29:11 – “…For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:13 – You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Who among us can with complete accuracy…
Continue ReadingProverbs 27:17 – As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Friends, good friends, who truly love each other, want the best for each other, and would take risks and sacrifices for each other. The will tell the truth to each other. When they do tell the hard truth, it is appreciated because they both love…
Continue ReadingActs 4:31 – After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. “After they prayed…” What had they prayed? They had been threatened and imprisoned by the same people who had insisted on the killing of Jesus (Acts 5:30). Peter and John…
Continue ReadingRemember the story related in Matthew 14:22-33 about when Jesus was approaching the boat that the disciples were in? They were floating in the boat and Jesus was walking on water. Peter, bless his “Oh, Oh, let me do that too!” heart, he asked the Lord if he also could walk on water and Jesus told him…
Continue ReadingMark 6:30-44 – The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to Him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, He said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” 32 So they went away by themselves in a…
Continue ReadingActs 4:27-30 – Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. 29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.30 Stretch out your hand…
Continue ReadingActs 4:23-26 – On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in…
Continue ReadingActs 4:21-22 – After further threats they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened. 22 For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old. “After further threats they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them, because all the people were…
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