THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE
“May the people praise you, O God; may the people praise you. Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God shall bless us. God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear Him.” Ps 67:5-7 (Amplified) If as I have asserted all week that there is no...
EVERY GOOD TURN
“Give, and gifts will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will they pour into [the pouch formed by] the bosom [of your robe and used as a bag]. For with the measure you deal out [with the measure you use when you confer...
UNCOMMON BLESSINGS FROM UNEXPECTED QUARTERS
“And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook.” 1 Kings 17:6 (Amplified) The stupefied prophet Elijah could not believe his ears. Had God just told him that He had commanded ravens to feed him...
THE ANOINTING WITHIN
“Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what have you [of sale value] in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.” 2 Kings4:2 (Amplified) The lady in question was the wife of a prophet whose sudden death left his...
CAVEAT EMPTOR – BUYER BEWARE
“And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” Phil.4:19 (Amplified) Those who have been fortunate enough to have travelled by air on a rainy day will attest to the fact that however dark the...
THE PRAYER REFLEX
“You will make your prayer to Him, and He will hear you, and you will pay your vows.” Job 22:27 (Amplified) Someone once said that nothing is beyond the remit of prayer except that which falls outside the will of God. This implies that so far as we know what the will...
A CANARY IN THE MINE
“And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.” 2 Sam.6:11 (Amp) God had just come down hard in His wrath upon the Israelites. What was their crime? They had unwittingly...
QUIT TALKING YOURSELF INTO RECESSION
“A man’s [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the conse-quence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil]. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or...
CRUNCH! WHAT CRUNCH?
“And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.” Isa 58:11 (Amplified) What is the most expensive word today...
THE KING’S BUSINESS
“David said to Ahimelech, Do you have at hand a sword or spear? The king’s business required haste and I brought neither my sword nor my weapon with me.” 1 Sam.21:8 (Amplified) If, God forbid, your house were to be on fire, what would your response be? Will you ignore...
