What Do You See?

“And (the angel) said to me, ‘What do you see?’ And I said, ‘I have looked, and behold a lamp-stand all of gold.’” Zechariah 4:2 Dear Ones: In one of the great stories of Michael Angelo, there is one that is most captivating.  It speaks of Angelo going to a quarry, there to seek a…


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Walk With Me

“And Jesus Himself drew near, and went with them.” Luke 24:15 Dear Ones: In the book of Genesis, before the Lord confronted Adam and Eve concerning their disobedience, Scripture tells us:  “And they heard the voice of the Lord God WALKING in the garden in the cool of the day.” (Gen. 3:8)  What a beautiful…


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Protecting Private Worship

“And when He had sent them away, He departed into a mountain to pray.” Mark 6:46 Dear Ones: When Israel came out of Egypt, the Lord instructed Moses to build a tabernacle, or “tent of meeting.”  It was to be both a picture and  a path, for Israel to know the living God.  It was…


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Eternal Comparisons

“…notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he (John the Baptist).” Matthew 11:11 Dear Ones: It is very difficult for us to grasp the “eternal,” and the full manifestation of the kingdom of heaven.  We get some idea of the contrast when the Apostle Paul writes, “How that he…


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Precious Faith

“Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! For he would cure him of his leprosy.” 2 Kings 5:3 Dear Ones: Faith is a very unusual thing.  For one thing, it can be just as real and effective in the heart of a child as in that of the prophet of…


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A Time Of War

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”  Ecclesiastes 3:1 Dear Ones: Solomon was a very wise man, one who could summarize the ebb and flow of life in a very few words.  And so he did in the book of Ecclesiastes.  Now, we must ask the…


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For This Child I Prayed

“…For who hath despised the day of small things?”  Zechariah 4:10 Dear Ones: It was the manner of John the Baptist’s birth, and manner by which he was named, that those who heard of it would say:  “What manner of child shall this be!” (Luke 1:66)  Jesus would later say of John, “Among those that…


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The Foreknowledge Of God

“…and who knows whether you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14 Dear Ones: All through Scripture we find the concept of the existence of God before the creation, and before “tomorrow.”  With that idea comes the truth of “predisposition,” a wisdom beyond our comprehension concerning time, the past,…


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Undeterred Pursuit

“And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.” Judges 8:4 Dear Ones: One of the great rules and laws of the harvest is that, “…in due season we shall reap, IF we faint not.” (Gal. 6:9)  Endurance, and the quiet, patient…


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