Biblical Teachings

You’re Not Alone

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Here are four biblical promises to remember when your life gets really hard. You’re Not Alone Ever feel alone in your suffering? Paul reminds us that we’re not alone, writing that “as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and …

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GRACE UPON GRACE

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GRACE UPON GRACE Colossians 1:6-12 (KJV) 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: 7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; 8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be …

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“And I will give you an heart of flesh.”—Ezekiel 36:26.

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“And I will give you an heart of flesh.”—Ezekiel 36:26. A heart of flesh is known by its tenderness concerning sin. To have indulged a foul imagination, or to have allowed a wild desire to tarry even for a moment, is quite enough to make a heart of flesh grieve before the Lord. The heart of stone calls a great iniquity nothing, but not so the heart of flesh. “If to the right or left I stray, That moment, Lord, reprove; And let me weep my life away, For having grieved thy love” The heart of flesh is tender of …

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A Trampled Rose

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A Trampled Rose Ephesians 5:2 (KJV) 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. Above All I can not listen to this song without tearing up, it deeply moved me the first time I heard it…it still does… chorus: Crucified laid behind a stone You lived to die rejected and alone Like a rose trampled on the ground You took the fall and thought of me Above all! Just to imagine Christ, my comforter and best friend, crucified, rejected …

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A Hunger for God

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As our hunger for God comes to life, He opens our heart and mind to desire Him even more. A Hunger for God Psalm 63:1-5 63 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. 3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. 4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up …

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“His Presence”

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The one who formed you says: Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior!” (Isaiah 43:1-3). He is indeed Emmanuel, “God with us.” “The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is …

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“And I will remember My covenant.”—Genesis 9:15.

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“And I will remember My covenant.”—Genesis 9:15. MARK the form of the promise. God does not say, “And when ye shall look upon the bow, and ye shall remember My covenant, then I will not destroy the earth,” but it is gloriously put, not upon our memory, which is fickle and frail, but upon God’s memory, which is infinite and immutable. “The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant.” Oh! it is not my remembering God, it is God’s remembering me which is the ground of my safety; it …

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31 Faith is the Substance Hoped for

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Here hope is described as the confident assurance of what is hoped for is genuinely going to happen. The word hope here describes an expectation or belief and assurance that what we are assured of happening in God’s Word will actually occur. There is no doubt that God will do exactly as He says He will perform. The author is describing faith as a principle that deals with what is yet future and unseen. Future events described in the Bible are made sure to us by faith the same as past historical events must be taken by faith as actually having …

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The Mindblowing Detail In The Joseph Story Everyone Misses

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By Freeman Chambers Consider this: The two servants of Pharaoh put into prison with Joseph are not needed for the story to be complete. For Joseph to be released from jail and brought into Pharaoh’s court, at least one person had to experience Joseph’s dream interpretation skills so that when Pharaoh had a perplexing dream, they would know who to recommend. But you only actually need one person to do that. The winetaster in this story saw that Joseph was accurate in his interpretations, and told his master. This brought an end to Joseph’s time in jail, and led to …

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The Broken Vessel..

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Really hard sometimes to smile when your heart is crying.. I can relate to the broken and I can also see God has chosen all us broken souls for a reason.. The Broken Vessel.. “Take me,” cried the gold one. “I’m shiny and bright, “I’m of great value and I do things just right.” But God passes by the gold, silver, brass, crystal, and wooden urns, and chooses the vessel of clay. The poem explains why.. Then the Master looked down and saw a vessel of clay.. Empty and broken, it helplessly lay. No hope had the vessel that the …

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