“So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 If ever there was a picture of the power and authority of the word of…
“We then as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye received not the grace of God in vain.” 2 Corinthians 6:1 It was in the book of Genesis that Moses wrote down the Lord’s words: “My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall…
“Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” Hebrews 9:14 Through the entirety of Scripture, even from before the moment Adam sinned, God had put into place a certain, sure way to redeem mankind. It was…
“And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” Revelation 5:2 The vision of heaven that Isaiah saw approximately seven hundred years before John the Apostle received his vision, was very similar and yet very different. That which was similar…
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up here, and I will shew you things which must be hereafter.” Revelation 4:1 In the book of Isaiah, he describes a vision…
“But the Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before Him.” Habakkuk 2:20 There is a great hymn written by W. Chalmers Smith, one stanza of which reads like this: “Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,…
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth (giveth life); the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 When the angel of the Lord revealed Himself to Zacharias, he told him that Elizabeth his wife would have a son, whose name would be John. In…
“Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord: awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old,” “…Art Thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?” Isaiah 51:9,10 When…
“And the Lord said unto Joshua, ‘See I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.” Joshua 6:2 After crossing the Jordan River, the people were immediately confronted with the city of Jericho, the walls of which rose in defiance, not only against the people, but against…
“Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them.” 2 Kings 17:35 There came a time in the history of Israel that, because of their rejection of God, refusing to adhere to His covenant and obey His commandments, that they became idolatrous, adopting the godless practices…