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What is the Point of Our Suffering?
2022-11-30 10:24 Job 36:5-12. Elihu tells Job that God does not despise anyone, He understands all. He does not keep the wicked alive, but He gives the afflicted their rights. He sets the righteous with kings upon thr...
Our Fate is Determined By How We Act While We Wait
2022-11-29 10:57 Psalm 37:12-22. David laments that those who seek to hurt him lay snares and speak of ruin, they are all treacherous. But he is like a deaf man, he does not hear them, and he does not open his mouth t...
Our Tears Will Be Dried By Love
2022-11-26 11:10 Revelation 7:14-17. The elder tells John that the multitude of people from every nation dressed in white robes and surrounding the throne in heaven are the ones "who have come out of the great tribula...
He Withdraws From Us to Lead Us Back
2022-11-25 08:28 Hosea 6:1-6. God says He will return to His place until His people acknowledge their guilt and seek His face. In their distress, they will say "Come, let us return to the Lord." They will see that He ...
Thanksgiving and Trust
2022-11-24 09:56 Psalm 22:1-5. I had this one before - it is the Psalm that Jesus quoted from the Cross. David starts by asking God why He has forsaken him. He cries out all day, but gets no response from God. Then Da...
Be Confident When Called to Battle
2022-11-23 11:43 1 Chronicles 19:6-15. The Ammonites, seeing that they have "made themselves odious to David," hire chariots and horsemen from neighboring countries to muster a battle against David. David sends Joab a...
Paul's Encouragement of Young Priests
2022-11-22 06:44 1 Timothy 4:11-16. Paul tells Timothy to keep preaching and not to let anyone despise his youth. He is to set an example of love, faith, and purity by his speech and his conduct. He is to attend to th...
Take Interest IN Others, Not From Them
2022-11-21 11:24 Nehemiah 5:14-18. Nehemiah is reminding God that he has not taken the taxes or other benefits that he could have been taking as governor during the time the exiles are coming back and Jerusalem is bei...
Pray for Conversion, Not Judgment
2022-11-19 10:48 1 Maccabees 7:39-42. This passage takes place after Nicanor went to seek Judas Maccabeus at the sanctuary on Mount Zion and, not finding him, derided the priests and promised to return to burn down th...
Seek the Place Where the Lord is and Worship There
2022-11-18 09:04 Deuteronomy 12:1-7. God is telling the people, through Moses, what they must do when they come into the lands that will make up the Promised Land. First, they must totally destroy any and everything r...