Personal thoughts from my reading
I read today in Matthew 22:37-40. “… You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.“This is the great and first commandment.“And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.“On these two commandments depend all the Law and the […]
I was reading today in Psalm 25:14 where it says : “The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and He makes known to them His covenant.” I found an interesting footnote regarding this verse in my ESV Bible. It says that the word “friendship” in this verse can also translated “secret
I was reading in Hebrews 12:25 where it said, “See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.” Think about that and read
Today several verses really jumped out at me… “But you shall speak My words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.” Ezekiel 2: 7 “And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach, and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it,
Was just reading this — “And the Lord’s bond servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and
I was reading today in first Timothy Chapter 6. There were two verses that really stood out to me. –verses 7 and 12. Verse7 is, “For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.” Verse 12 says, “Fight the good fight of faith., take hold of the
Let me share something has been really pressing on me. I sense the need to “sound the warning trumpet” in the spirit of Ezekiel 33. This passage of scripture is where God gives the command to watch and warn people of approaching danger. Let me show you these verses. The word of the LORD came
I was reading today… “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. “For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.” Galatians 6:7-8 This
I read today… “But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:22 NAS This is the fruit that the Holy Spirit grows and the life of the one who has Christ as Lord and Savior. We become a
I was reading today — “…nevertheless, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the
