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When God's Time is Right, We'll Know It

2024-02-14 08:26 Ezra 8:15-17. "As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi. Then I sent for ... leading men, and for ... men of insight, and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at ...

Lessons Learned in the Teacher's Absence

2024-02-13 06:36 Mark 9:14. "And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them." This is immediately after the transfiguration - Jesus had taken Peter, James, and Jo...

Trust That God Knows You, Even When the World Doesn't

2024-02-12 09:41 2 Corinthians 5:11. "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience." Paul is describing a difficult line...

We Are All Unclean and in Need of Healing

2024-02-11 08:54 Leviticus 13:45-46 and Mark 1:40-44. "The leper who has the disease shall ... cry out 'Unclean, unclean!' ... he shall dwell alone in a habitation outside the camp." (Leviticus 13:44-46). "And...

Prophets Both Know and Don't Know What They Are Talking About

2024-02-09 06:07 Amos 1:1-2. "The words of Amos ... two years before the earthquake ... :'The Lord roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel w...

Nothing Happens Without His Permission

2024-02-08 06:58 Judith 9:5-6. "For thou hast done these things and those that went before and those that followed; thou hast designed the things that are now, and those that are to come. Yea, the things that thou did...

Reviving Our Heart's Desire

2024-02-07 06:34 Ezekiel 24:25-27. "[O]n the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart's desire, and also their sons and daughters, on that day a fu...

God Speaks, in His Time, and What He Says Is

2024-02-06 11:00 Ezekiel 12:28. "Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word which I speak will be performed, says the Lord God." The word which the Lor...

Anything Can Be an Idol, Even Very Good Things

2024-02-05 09:48 Deuteronomy 32:21. "They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god, they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with...

We All Get Our Just Punishment, in the End

2024-02-04 11:07 2 Maccabees 4:21. "When ... Antiochus learned that Philometor had become hostile to his government, .. he took measures for his own security. Therefore upon arriving at Joppa he proceeded to Jerusale...