“Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.” Mark 11:22 Faith is holding on to the faithfulness of God and as long as you do that, you cannot go wrong. Faith does not look at the difficulties…Faith does not look at itself or at the person who exercising it. Faith looks at God. The only measure of the […]
“Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity.” Psalm 26:1. When I am falsely accused, I plead with God for vindication. I want my name cleared and the guilty person held accountable for the harm done to my reputation. But then I get impatient and try to vindicate myself. Vindication does not come from self-defensive […]
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20. Paul sensed the nearness of Christ while he was a prisoner in a soldiers’ barracks and later in life as he sat in a cold, damp dungeon. We too can know that the Lord is always with us. He is our constant […]
“Make haste to help me, O Lord!” Psalm 70:1. The time to pray is anytime but we are especially motivated when we are in crisis. It is when we are desolate, forsaken and stripped of every human resource that we naturally resort to prayer. In those times we can pray like the Psalmist who simply said, […]
“This is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His son Jesus Christ and love one another.” I John 3:23. Jesus said we will receive from God what we ask of Him (Matthew 7:7-8). But there are conditions. For example, John said we must obey God and do what pleases Him. This includes believing […]