“Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now Thy way, that I may know Thee.” Exodus 33:13 Long after Moses, David came on the scene of history, praying basically the same thing as Moses. David prayed, as recorded in Psalm 25: “Shew me Thy ways, O Lord;…
“And Jesus answered and said unto her, ‘If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, ‘Give me a drink;’ thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.” John 4:10 It might have been a warm day when Jesus, weary from his journey,…
“…and the rest of our enemies heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein…” Nehemiah 6:1 When Israel was taken captive by the Babylonians, and into exile for seventy years, it was basically because she committed two errors which led to her abandonment of God. The first thing…
“I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” 1 Corinthians 4:19,20 The Bible speaks a great deal about power, primarily as it relates to the power…
“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Ephesians 4:4-5 In light of Paul’s words in Ephesians where he speaks on the…
“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.” Hosea 6:3 The Prophet Hosea, led by the Spirit of God, gives to Israel, and to the…
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto this world.” Galatians 6:14 In E.C. Clephane’s great hymn, “Beneath The Cross of Jesus,” she wrote: “Upon that cross of Jesus, Mine eye at times can see, The…
“And he (Lazarus) that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a cloth. Jesus saith unto them, ‘Loose him, and let him go.’” John 11:44 When the angel of the Lord came to the shepherds in the fields near Bethlehem, soon after the birth of…
“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” Colossians 3:1 With regard to walking with Christ, living on this earth in communion with Him, trusting the Father for the coming of the kingdom and the doing of His will, there are…
“How is it that you sought Me? Knew you not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Luke 2:49 What does it mean to be about the business of the Father? What is this business? In the example of the Lord Jesus, when He was twelve years old, it consisted of “sitting in the…