SHE WHO WOULD NOT BE DENIED
“And there was a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, for she kept saying, If I only touch His garments, I shall be restored to health.” Mark 5:25, 28. (Amplified) The first of the six stories we will be considering is of the individual more commonly known...
THE CONVENTION BREAKERS
“For My thoughts are not your thought, neither are My ways you ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isa 55:8-9 (Amplified) Necessity, they say, is the mother of...
SEIZE THE MOMENT
“To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven.” Eccl 3:1 (Amplified) God forbid, but if you were to hear that your house is on fire, how will you respond? You will saunter to the kitchen and make yourself a cup of tea, I think...
YOU MATTER TO GOD
“For I know the thoughts and plans I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.” Jer 29:11 (Amplified) One fact that markedly differentiates Christianity from and which as a...
FORCING YOUR WAY TO THE TOP OF GOD’S AGENDA
“And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault and violent men seize it by force [as a precious prize – a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with the most ardent zeal and intense exertion].” Matt...
FROM PEACE TO PRAISE
“Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. [Instead of the tyranny of the present] I will appoint peace as your officers and righteousness as your taskmasters. Violence shall...
IMMOVABLE PEACE
“Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble.” Psa 119:165 If you thought you had only a few hours to live, how would you have spent it? This is a question most of us will never have to answer, but was what confronted the...
THE GREAT PEACE PURCHASE
“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities, the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.” Isa. 53:5 In commerce, it is...
UNEASY PEACE
“And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to what you say, I am yours, and all that I have.” 1 Kings 20:4 In 1939, when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off the plane on his return from meeting with Adolf Hitler in...
PEACE: THE SENTINEL
“And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of the soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison...
