The Lord says: I am your share and your inheritance. So we say: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance …
God’s Love: New Every Morning (Part 4)
I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord my God! For He has dressed me with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of His righteousness. I am like a bridegroom dressed for his wedding or a bride with her jewels. (Isaiah 61:10 NLT) God’s Personal Love Terry Wogan (1938-2016) was an Irish broadcaster for nearly 40 …
God’s Love: New Every Morning (Part 3)
I sought the Lord, and He answered me. He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant. Their faces are never covered with shame. (Psalm 34:4-5) God is Love Isaiah speaks of Christ’s love for His people in many ways. He says that Jesus tends His flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in …
God’s Love: New Every Morning (Part 2)
God fulfilled what He had foretold through all the prophets, sending Jesus Christ, His Messiah, to suffer and be raised from the dead to save us. Now we turn away from our old ways of thinking, being, and doing and re-turn to God, so that our sins may be wiped out and that times of refreshing may come from the …
God’s Love: New Every Morning (Part 1)
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion and inheritance. Therefore I will wait for Him.” (Lamentations 3:22-24) God is Love 1 John 4:8 says, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God …
God Answers Speedily (Sometimes)
The Lord says: Before they call, I will answer. While they are yet speaking, I will hear. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer… You will cry for help, and I will say: Here am I. (Isaiah 65:24, 58:9) This post continues to look at amazing ways the Lord cares for us. This builds on God Answers Before …
God Answers Before We Pray (Sometimes)
Jesus says: Before they call, I will answer. While they are yet speaking, I will hear… If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (Isaiah 65:24; John 15:7) The Hot Water Bottle Dr. Helen Roseveare (1925-2016) was an English Christian missionary, doctor, and author who served …
Joy in Jesus’ Incarnation
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich….Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift of Jesus! (2 Corinthians 8:9, 9:15) Messy World, Messy Stable Carrie McKean wrote in Christianity Today: When we think about the night …
Jesus Empties Himself for Us
Christ Jesus, though He existed in the unchanging essence of God, did not consider equality with God something to cling to. Still, He emptied Himself, by taking the nature of a servant, being born a human being. And being found in human form, Jesus humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians …
Jesus and Hanukkah
In God’s Son (Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it… God is light. In Him there is no darkness at all… Christ says: I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the …