Jesus has just told His Disciples He is going to the cross, be rejected, suffer great things, be killed and raised the third day. Yet, what do we see the disciples doing, they are fighting over who is the greatest. But isn’t that what most of us do? There are many...
In Joshua Chapter 24, we see that Joshua wants the people of God to recommit themselves to God. He rehearses all that God has done so that they know who He is and what His will for their life is, but that is contingent on really being interested in knowing it. This...
Jesus is telling those who are Christians that the blessings which they will experience versus the judgement that the proud will experience are truly great. We that know Christians will experience great power and knowledge because of knowing Jesus. We will see...
I don’t believe for most having daily food or shelter in America is something we think too much about this anymore, we take these things for granted, but we shouldn’t. God first wants us to understand that we are dependent on Him for everything we have and need....
Gideon is hiding in the winepress from the Midianites when God comes to him and calls him a mighty man of valor. Can you imagine Gideon looking around for someone else that God might be speaking to and then saying who me? But, this is all of us, without God we...
After Gideon had been tested the first time, God spoke to him again and told him to go against the Midianites. But, before this happened God told Gideon to bring the number of people down by some tests. The tests are not the important thing, what is important is...
All of chapter 9 is a sad commentary on Gideon’s life. You would have thought because of all the lessons he learned from God he would not have surrendered to the rewards which his heroism brought him for the rest of his life. He apparently lived in wealth and...
We see this priestly blessing in Psalm 67 that was to request God’s favor on His people. This causing of the face to shine means smiling on them with favor and approval. This Psalmist requests this blessing so that other nations would know of God’s favor and turn...
I don’t know why most people think you can be saved by being good enough, doing more good than bad, and by keeping the 10 commandments or just believing that Jesus existed, but the law was only given to show us that we can never be good enough on our own that’s why...
Here we see Samson, the most famous of the Judges of Israel falling to his lowest level of sin. He has done almost everything a person can do that is being used of God and yet God has been patient with him and not let him be consumed by his sin. Finally, he is...
