(I am posting part of our pastor's encouraging words to his flock today.) I pray that we shall all seek the grace of our Savior, so that we may know how much God loves us, is watching over us for good, is working all things together for our good, now and in heaven...
The most difficult the times, the closer our Heavenly Father draws us to Him. When things are well with us, we are prone to forget Him. "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous." Psalm 112:4 He waits...
"Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast." Hebrews 6:19 Now in our eighties, Jerry and I have never known anything close to what the world is experiencing now. For over a week, I have been singing the hymn In Times Like These. Searching for...
How often do we pray the third petition of the Lord's Prayer with our whole heart? Sometimes we need to look at familiar things with new insight. As God's children, we are prone to wander from what we have heard most of our lives. Or we may think we have it down and...
“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” 2 Corinthians 8:9 Do you ever dream of winning the lottery? I would not know what to do with the money that is at...
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." Matthew 4:4 In my continued study on prayer and intercession, I am amazed at how our heavenly Father answers our prayers when we know why and what to pray. Two main points of...
A most unusual discovery in our study of the words “Ask, Seek, and Knock” is that Jesus expresses only one thing for each of these. In Luke 11:13, He says to “ASK for the Holy Spirit.” In Matthew 6:33 He commands us to “SEEK the kingdom of God and His righteousness.”...
As I continue this search for the meanings of Jesus' words, I am impressed with the thoughts of fervently asking, diligently seeking, and urgently knocking. We are sharing what God's Word reveals of diligently seeking in this post. When Jesus told His disciples to...
Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matthew 7:7 As I have been interceding for Bill and Terry these two weeks, the importance of prayer has again become for me a major interest and calling for another...