Spiritual Causes of Discouragement
We may become discouraged spiritually if we have a wrong understanding of our relationship with God. PSALM 43 1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! 2 For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places. 4 Then I will go to the …
“He appeared first to Mary Magdalene.” Mark 16:9
Jesus “appeared first to Mary Magdalene,” probably not only on account of her great love and persevering seeking, but because, as the context intimates,she had been a special trophy of Christ’s delivering power. Learn from this, that the greatness of our sin before conversion should not make us imagine that we may not be specially favoured with the very highest grade of fellowship. She was one who had left all to become a constant attendant on the Saviour. He was her first, her chief object. Many who were on Christ’s side did not take up Christ’s cross; she did. She …
A Step at a Time
1 Kings 17:4 4 It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there.” God’s direction includes God’s provision. God says, “Go to the brook. I will provide.” Vance Havner, in his book, It Is Toward Evening, tells the story of a group of farmers who were raising cotton in the Deep South when the devastating boll weevil invaded the crops. These men had put all of their savings, dedicated all of their fields, set all of their hopes in cotton. Then the boll weevil came. Before long, it …
The Empty Tomb
In the cold gray of the early morning three women wended their way through the darkened streets of Jerusalem. It was the dawn of the first day of the week, but their hearts were heavy. Their feet plodded slowly over the rough stones of the streets of Jerusalem. The day preceding the Sabbath they had seen their hope in Jesus of Nazareth crushed. They witnessed Him dying a cruel death by crucifixion. It had been their hope that He would redeem Israel and deliver them from their Roman oppressors; but now their dreams and hopes lay in the darkened tomb. …
Helping Those in Need
Jesus doesn’t discriminate with regard to whose burdens He will carry—and neither should we. Luke 10:25-37 25 And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?” 27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And He said to him, “You have answered …
The grace of God set me free
Woke up this morning remembered a time when I was anything but who I am today.. and realized that we don’t all begin as the people we want to be.. But that with each little step we pave a way to be something.. somebody.. I was SO lost.. I was SO broken and so consumed with shame and self pity.. Self doubt so bad that it kept me hidden.. Regret SO bad it shamed me… The grace of God set me free.. My redemption.. gave me hope.. The blood of Christ covered me like a warm blanket.. Cleansed this dirty …
The Rapture and Resurrection of the Church
The Rapture & Resurrection By Dr. Daniel E Woodhead We must remember that: The more literally we take the Bible, the more fundamental our theology becomes. The less literally we take the Bible, the more liberal our theology becomes. If we go the liberal route God’s message to us is lost. Defining the Church: In Revelation Chapters two and three the “visible” church represents all church history. The Church has two general groupings. One is called the “visible” church and it encompasses all who call themselves “Christian”. It has different names, such as Roman Catholic, Protestant, Reformed, Episcopal, Methodist etc. …
Is 42:1-25 God’s Man For The Ages
Jack Hibbs 7/12/2017 Wed Isaiah – God Is Our Salvation Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Do you feel far from God? He has not left you and will not let your fire go out. To watch the full message, visit goo.gl/dVi85m.
The Deity of the Messiah (Hebrew Moshiach)
The Deity of the Messiah (Hebrew Moshiach) First Fruits Being Offered to Hebrew Priest. The Messiah is our First Fruit! Within the Jewish Writings (Non Christian) Most of the Jewish writings (noncanonical) from which these Messianic expositions come are found in the following broad categories: Pseudepigraphical Apocryphal Mishniac Midrasic Haggadahic Gemmaric Talmudic Kabalistic Medieval Rabbinic Modern Rabbinic The word Messiah in Hebrew means the Anointed One. In the Jewish writings the Messiah was described as a person of the line of King David (a “ben yishai” – son of Jesse, father of David) who will return the Jews from exile, …
The Outcome of Discouragement
Turn to the Lord when you’re discouraged, or you may end up with a distorted view of God and yourself. PSALM 40:1-3 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the LORD. Discouragement is a common problem. As we …
“And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.”— Exodus 20:25
God’s altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel carnal wisdom pollutes it, until it becomes another gospel, and not the truth of God at all. All alterations and amendments of the Lord’s own Word are defilements and pollutions. The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification …
“As it began to dawn, came Magdalene, to see the sepulchre.” Matthew 28:1
Let us learn from Mary Magdalene how to obtain fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Notice how she sought. She sought the Saviour very early in the morning. If thou canst wait for Christ, and be patient in the hope of having fellowship with him at some distant season, thou wilt never have fellowship at all; for the heart that is fitted for communion is a hungering and a thirsting heart. She sought him also with very great boldness. Other disciples fled from the sepulchre, for they trembled and were amazed; but Mary, it is said, “stood” at the sepulchre. If …