“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 When we consider the person of Job in the Old Testament, if ever there was a man who experienced “captivity” it was he. Imprisoned by the loss of…
“If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” John 4:10 One of the most well-known meetings of Jesus with an individual, and the account of that most significant meeting, was when…
“…But His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not.” Jeremiah 20:9 In Paul’s second letter to his son in the faith, Timothy, he was writing not only to a servant of Christ but to a preacher of…
“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” John 12:32 Scripture is very plain and clear about the absolute need of man, especially when it comes to knowing God, and the things of God. It reveals to mankind that God, Christ, is the Alpha and Omega, the…
“But He (Jesus) answered and said, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4 In Isaiah’s book in the Bible, he wrote down the Lord’s words for the generation of his time, and certainly of ours. He wrote concerning the word of the…
“If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.” Leviticus 26:3,4 In the Gospel of John, we find where the Lord Jesus said: “He who has…
“For He (God) says, ‘In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation, I have helped you.’ Behold, now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2 It is a Biblical concept that the believer in Christ, since the day when he was born of…
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him.” Psalm 34:8 From the beginning of the Bible to its conclusion, there is the revelation of His goodness. In the creation we see where God declares all that He had made, especially man, to be good, the very…
“For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died.” 2 Corinthians 5:14 One of the great proofs of the pride of men is the refusal to first of all recognize that there is a God, a Creator. A second proof is the concept by…