Day: January 14, 2018

The apostle begins this section of Scripture with a direct quote from Psalm 95 regarding the hardening of hearts. Which is, not listening to God through His Spirit who spoke to the ancient Israelites while they wandered in the wilderness for forty years and after when the new generation entered Canaan. There in the wilderness the Jews suffered a time that was remembered as a tragic defeat. Because they provoked God through unbelief He caused nearly all of them to perish in the wilderness (desert). The seriousness of provoking God and especially through unbelief cannot be over emphasized.    

by Charles R. Swindoll     Scriptures: Psalm 3 O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come Be Thou our guide while life shall last, And our eternal home! —Isaac Watts   Time, like an ever-rolling stream, takes all its sons away. As never before in this generation, we realize that we are dependent upon God for protection and strength. Though the mountains quake, though bridges fall, though tunnels are destroyed, though ships sink, though lives will be lost, though war threatens to invade, though there may even be terrorists and enemies in our midst, …

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A close relationship with God requires time with Him, not simply knowledge about Him Meeting With God Jeremiah 24:7 7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart. Many of us have been blessed with close friends. Imagine if we never spent time with them but instead just thought and talked about how wonderful these special people are. Wouldn’t such behavior be foolish? Yet some Christians do just that. Despite accumulating …

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Reflections God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. (Heb 1:1-2) How does God speak today? Through signs and wonders? By the means of voices in our head? By leading us around to do this or do that? According to the Bible, God today is primarily speaking to us by His Son. Look up the Greek and you will see that it really reads, “God is speaking to us Son-wise.” We are being told that God is revealing …

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Gracethrufaith Question of the Day: Q. In the Parable of the Two Sons (Matt. 21:28-32) Jesus told of a father telling his sons to work in the vineyard. The first son said he wouldn’t, but changed his mind and did. The second son said he would, but changed his mind and didn’t. When Jesus asked them which one did what the father wanted they all agreed is was the first son. “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ ” ‘I …

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“Beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.” Matthew 14:30 Sinking times are praying times with the Lord’s servants. Peter neglected prayer at starting upon his venturous journey, but when he began to sink his danger made him a suppliant, and his cry though late was not too late. In our hours of bodily pain and mental anguish, we find ourselves as naturally driven to prayer as the wreck is driven upon the shore by the waves. The fox hies to its hole for protection; the bird flies to the wood for shelter; and even so the tried believer …

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