“Behold I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one take your crown.” Revelation 3:11 What does it mean to be ready for Christ’s return? For the born-again believer in Christ it means several things, which when combined together, reveals to us what we are to be doing, and how we are…
“You do not have because you do not ask.” James 4:2 In the epistle of James we find him addressing the matter of unanswered prayers. And yet, when Jesus was conducting His ministry, He spoke a great deal of true, faith-filled prayers being answered, so much so that one would actually receive by faith that…
“…in the eighth year of his reign (Josiah), while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his faith.” 2 Chronicles 3:3 When the nation of Israel was at the pinnacle of blessing during the reign of Solomon, especially at the time when the temple was built and consecrated to…
“Now Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord. So Gideon said, ‘Alas, O Lord God! For I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face.’” Judges 6:22 What was it about Gideon that moved the Lord to choose him to deliver the people of Israel from their enemies, the Midianites…
“When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.’” Genesis 17:1 The specific revelation of God to individual men came, according to the Scriptures, not by chance, or in a way that was not according to the wisdom and…
“Depart! Depart! Go out from there, touch no unclean thing. Go out from the midst of her, be clean you who bear the vessels of the Lord.” Isaiah 52:11 When Isaiah began writing his book, the Lord led him to instruct Israel to understand the desperate situation she was in with regard to being right…
“(Christ)…with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.” Hebrews 9:12 When the Apostle James wrote to believers who were disbursed abroad, scattered over the then known world, and many of these in the midst of “various trials,” he addressed the essential issues which needed to be…
“‘Sing, O barren, you who have not born! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud you who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman,’ says the Lord.” Isaiah 54:1 In one of the most remarkable declarations by God to the people of…
“But the Lord will arise over you and His glory will be seen upon you.” Isaiah 60:2 What is the greatest blessing of God upon men? We begin to get a glimpse of it in the writings of the Apostle Paul, specifically in his letter to the Ephesian believers, when he wrote: “Blessed be the…
“Be strong and of a good courage for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.” Joshua 1:6 In the historical book of Joshua, we find Israel, after having spent forty years in the wilderness because of her unbelief and disobedience, again at…