“For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”—Esther 4:14 Esther was going to let the Read more…
“Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’ Read more…
“You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.” — Micah 7:19, NIV Do these names sound familiar Gilligan, the Skipper, the Professor, Ginger, Mary Ann, and Mr. & Mrs. Thurston Howell, III?[1] Perhaps Read more…
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord…In those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea.” — (Malachi 4:5-6, ESV, Matthew 3:1, NKJV) For the past three weeks, I have been without email Read more…
“But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”— Matthew 6:6 Growing up, if I were coming in or going out of the house too Read more…
“Bless the Lord, you, His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word.” — Psalm 103:20 Imagine being so in sync with God that the angels can’t differentiate between who’s talking when you speak His word. Wow. What an honor and privilege to Read more…
“Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come.” — John 17:1, NKJV Today, I release this prayer over you that you may find comfort in knowing that the words of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been spoken over you. Shalom. “I Read more…
“So, Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned. From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before. This was the same place Read more…
“For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?” — Isaiah 43:19, NLT. Spiritually, August is the month of New Birth, New creation, or New Beginnings. It’s a time in which God is saying, “Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep Read more…
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. — Psalm 24:1 “What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is mine.”[1] Sounds selfish, doesn’t it? And yet this is a humorous way of saying everything belongs to me. That is what David says Read more…