Extending the good news through morning meditation. Bringing inspirational messages from all the books of the Bible.
Your decision determines your destination
Do not panic for God is still in control
What have you worked that you are eating?
You are the shepherd so take your responsibility
Dry up your tears and recognize Jesus
Be careful, your enemy the devil is no fool
hird verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. ... This verse is the opening of the final antithesis, that on the commandment to "Love thy neighbour as thyself".
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Simon Peter answered him,(A) “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
needed clothes and you clothed me,(A) I was sick and you looked after me,(B) I was in prison and you came to visit me.
they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me. Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked. May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? The World English Bible translates the passage as: “Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
Psalm 127 vs 3 & 6
He said: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.
Bring up a child in the ways of the Lord
Together we success and apart we fall
Look Beyond your suffering
Philippians 4:4, NASB: "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!" Philippians 4:4, NLT: "Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again--rejoice!"
At that time Herod(B) the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus,(C) 2 and he said to his attendants, “This is John the Baptist;(D) he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him
Jesus is continuing to speak to a group of non-Jewish seekers brought to Him by the disciples (John 12:20–22). His earlier statement compared His impending death to the planting of a seed (John 12:23–26). What might seem like death and destruction is really the process which turns something mundane and immature into something mature and productive. This is a concept also explored by Paul in his letters (1 Corinthians 15:36–42).
“‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'[c]”(J
But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord,(A) “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything,(B) I will pay back four times the amount.”(C) 9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.(D)
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Simeon(A) and Levi(B) are brothers— their swords[a] are weapons of violence.(C) 6 Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly,(D) for they have killed men in their anger(E) and hamstrung(F) oxen as they pleased. 7 Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury,(G) so cruel!(H) I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.(I)
Paul writes that God works all things for the good of those “who are called according to purpose.” We must ask ourselves what our purpose is. ... In this context, our purpose is “to be conformed to the image of His Son.”