The Lord impressed on my heart the following verse James 1:17 for some time. The echoing of it did not stop, as I sat down and wrote this down the revelation started to unfold. James 1:17-18 The Message 16-18 So, my very dear friends, don’t get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes …
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Countering accusations
Matthew 27:12 But when the leading priests and the elders made their accusations against him, Jesus remained silent. As part of their campaign against Jesus, the chief priests and the elders of the Sanhedrin bound Him and took Him to Pilate, where they falsely accused Jesus of all manner of wrongdoing with the intention of …
Good works
We know from John 3:16 that we are not saved by any works that we do, but purely on the grounds of our belief in the fact that Jesus died for our sins in our place; that He conquered death by rising again on the third day as the Firstfruit of all of us who …
Are You a Factory
Arthur Burke, that wonderful out-of-the-box thinker and teacher of the Word, talks about believers being factories in his series on Leviathan. What he means is that we should be taking the things placed inside us by God, together with our God-filtered experiences in life and things outside us and weave them together with the help …
Heroes with humble beginnings
Heb 11:32-34 And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the flames of fire, and escaped death by …
Probability
Most of us find the whole concept of mathematical probability quite daunting. But simply put, probability just means how likely something is to happen. We can also describe probability as odds, for instance the odds of your being struck by lightning on any given day are one in 250 million, making it quite a rare …
Hear and see
Hab 2:1 I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. There is something interesting in this verse, which is easy to miss on first reading. The prophet says: I will …
Total fulfilment
Lev 23:15-17 From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering (this is the firstfruits offering presented during the Feast of Firstfruits), count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to …
Honour
1 Sam 2:29-30 ……Why do you give your sons more honour than you give me…… ……But I will honour those who honour me…… When God sent this message to Eli by word of a nameless man of God, he was the priest (probably the high priest) over the Tabernacle at Shiloh. His sons, Hophni and …
Calling evil good
Proverbs 11:1 and 16:11 A false balance and dishonest business practices are extremely offensive to the LORD, But an accurate scale is His delight. The LORD demands accurate scales and balances; he sets the standards for fairness. On first reading, these verses are very directly focussed on fairness in business dealings – only accurate standardised measures are …