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“No one can come to the Father who sent Me draws Him.”   John 6:44  NIV   How many of you were sent by your dad to do something?  Clean your room?  Pick up the backyard?  Go to school?  Find your best friend and ask forgiveness for an infraction which broke up the tight bond between you two?   Dads just send their children places – whether we agree it’s a good thing or not.  And a happy child is the obedient child.   Jesus was an obedient Son –   Although He was a Son, He lea

Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. Isaiah 9:7 NIV Knowing God's kingdom will be an eternal kingdom, His Son will be an absolute monarch, and this kingdom will never be conquered - these truths are powerful because what we see now is polar opposite to the various kingdoms, governments, and monarchies in our present day.  We see land grabs, fighting, civil wars, death, power struggles, needless coups and more.  All for the sake of power and contr

Now the LORD had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah.  And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.  Jonah 1:17...

At this rate they were afraid we would soon be driven against the rocks along the shore, so they threw out four anchors from the back of...

Has he said, and will he not do it?  Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?  Numbers 23:19 ESV Promises can be a fickle thing.  In...

Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you.  Proverbs 4:25 NIV The family road trip of long hours spent in the...

The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.  Hosea 14:9  NIV What is it about...

Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, “Sit here while I go over there to pray.”  Matthew 26:36 NLT...

They will celebrate your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of your righteousness.  Psalm 145:7  (NIV) Monday, February 5, 2024, will be...

Even the wilderness and desert will be glad in those days. The wasteland will rejoice and blossom with spring crocuses. Isaiah 35:1...

Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction; your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes...

(Jesus said) “He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” John 8:47 (NIV)...

For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. 2 Corinthians 1:5 (NLT) Suffering is not...

Give us today our daily bread. Matthew 6:11 (NIV) What’s not to love about bread? Even the gluten free/dairy free variety I have to eat...

She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21...

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Psalm 38:8 (KJV) What is it about brokenness that...

A week filled with the realization affliction is long and has a tenacious hold on me and then to wake up to this verse as God’s promise...

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops...

Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. There he sat with the guards and warmed himself at the...

On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said,...