There is an old secular song which seems to keep popping up here and there whenever I am on the internet lately which says this: Can't Help Falling in Love By George David Weiss / Hugo E. Peretti / Luigi Creatore Wise men sayOnly fools rush inBut I can't help falling in love with youShall … Continue reading Only Fools Rush In
Encouragement
Times of Difficulty Have Come
2 Timothy 3 ESV “But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather … Continue reading Times of Difficulty Have Come
Holding on to Hope
Psalms 119:161-168 ESV “Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words. I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil. I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law. Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules. Great peace have those who love … Continue reading Holding on to Hope
Excuses, Excuses!
If We Say We Have 1 John 1:5-6 ESV “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” … Continue reading Excuses, Excuses!
For All His Benefits to Us
I Will Pay My Vows Psalms 116:12-14 ESV “What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord, I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.” Do you know … Continue reading For All His Benefits to Us
Examples of Persecutions
Psalms 94:3-7 ESV “O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; and they say, ‘The Lord does not see; … Continue reading Examples of Persecutions
Who Rises up for Me?
Psalms 94:16-19 ESV “Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. When I thought, ‘My foot slips,’ your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of … Continue reading Who Rises up for Me?
What Then Shall We Say?
Romans 8:31-39 ESV “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's … Continue reading What Then Shall We Say?
Led by the Spirit of God
But according to the Spirit Romans 8:1-4 ESV “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could … Continue reading Led by the Spirit of God
Steadfast in Faith Despite Opposition
Psalms 42:1-4 ESV “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, ‘Where is … Continue reading Steadfast in Faith Despite Opposition