Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah (Psalm 87:3, KJV) Glorious things are spoken of the city of God. He adds the word “selah” which means “pause and think about what that means”! It is so important that the LORD wants us to pause for a moment and reflect on what Read More
Hope
God had made me to laugh
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me (Genesis 21:6, KJV) When Sarah, a barren woman past menopause, put to birth a bouncing baby boy at the age of 91, she exclaimed: “ God hath made me to laugh, so that all that here will Read More
Hope Against Hope
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be (Romans 4:18, KJV) Abraham believed in hope, against hope! Abraham is called the father of faith, as his belief in God laid the operational foundations of our faith in Read More
We Shall Not Die But Live!
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment… (Habakkuk 1:12, KJV) The prophet Habakkuk lived at the time when the Chaldeans(Babylonians) were expanding their conquest of the world with unprecedented maliciousness and victory. The rest of the world was Read More
They shall Hunger No More
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat (Revelation 7:16, KJV) When eternity swallows up time, then everything that is associated with time will vanish. There are a couple of things that will be “no more” when Jesus returns, and we step into the Read More
The Hope that Easter Brings
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4, KJV) The climax of Easter is the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. His death is crucial, but Read More
God of the Hour
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison (Acts 12:6, KJV) Peter was arrested by Herod and kept in prison, awaiting execution after Easter. However, the night before the execution, an angel showed Read More
Though the Fig Tree Shall not Blossom
“Although the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls” (Habakkuk 3:17, KJV ) The prophet Habakkuk lived in Read More