“Our Father which art in heaven; Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matthew 6:9,10 In Paul’s letter to the believers in Colosse, he wrote: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right…
“How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let might right hand forget her cunning.” Psalm 137:4-5 It was a terrible memory of the Babylonians coming and destroying Jerusalem. It was in Jerusalem that God had chosen to have the first temple built, and that by…
“Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.” Isaiah 41:15 The history of America is a miraculous one. It began in the hearts and spirits of those, who throughout the ages, have longed for liberty…
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Psalm 119:105 The written word of God is as timeless as the Word made flesh, who dwelt among us. God’s words never deviate in their meaning or effect because they are “Spirit-breathed, and living. The objective word of God lives by…
“He changeth the times and seasons: He removeth kings, and setteth up kings: He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.” Daniel 2:21 Daniel, one of the captives brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, has been greatly used by God to influence history. How can this be, and what did he…
“…the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks, until the Spirit be poured out upon us from on high.” Isaiah 32:15 When Elijah asked Elisha what he wanted him to do for him before he would be taken away to heaven, Elisha apparently did…
“And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Him of the evil.” Joel 2:3 If there is one characteristic about God that explains Him in some measure, and especially as that knowledge applies…
“…Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” 1 Corinthians 2:8 When the Lord Jesus was hanging on the cross, He uttered this prayer: “…Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34) One wonders, as a…
“Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28 The Lord Jesus is, at the same time, the Path, the Pattern, and the Power, for living. We have in Him, when He walked upon this earth, the very…
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 On a day when some of the many disciples went back from following the Lord Jesus, He asked those disciples who remained this question: “Will ye also go away?”…