Archive for November 2019
S33P4 – The fruit of trust in God: assurance
Psa. 91:7-8A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but danger will not come near you. You will only look on with your eyes and witness the repayment of the wicked. The events of the old testament Passover celebrated to this day may seem frightening. As an exercise of…
Read MoreS33P3 – The fruit of trust in God: peace
Psa. 91:5-6You will not be afraid of the terror of night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noon. As a child, I was pretty afraid of the dark. Whether it was the shadow of a lamp against…
Read MoreThe constant in the chaos
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-23vhi-c6e8bd This life can turn on a dime. Don’t ask me about my five-year plan; who knows what tomorrow will bring? People say the only constant in life is change, which is almost true. What is more true is that God is constant as well. That is what gives us our stability. – C.C.
Read MoreS33P2 – The fruit of trust in God: protection
Psa. 91:3-4For He will save you from the trap of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you and completely protect you with His pinions, and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and a wall. When a new bald eagle hatches, it is helpless. It cannot…
Read MoreS33P1 – The fruit of trust in God: sanctuary
Psa. 91:1-2He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will remain secure and rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord , “He is my refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!” We have all been there. We experience a certain kind of day for…
Read MoreS32P6 – A future look at Jesus: accused
Isa. 53:12Therefore, I will divide and give Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoils with the mighty, because He poured out His life to death, and was counted among the transgressors; yet He himself bore and took away the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors. In our criminal…
Read MoreS32P5 – A future look at Jesus: crushed
Isa. 53:10-11Yet the Lord was willing to crush Him, causing Him to suffer; if He would give Himself as a guilt offering, He shall see His offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will of the Lord shall succeed and prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He…
Read MoreS32P4 – A future look at Jesus: poor
Isa. 53:8-9After oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who concerned himself with the fact that He was cut off from the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with the wicked, but He was with a…
Read MoreS32P3 – A future look at Jesus: meek
Isa. 53:5-7But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was crushed for our wickedness; the punishment for our well-being fell on Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, we have turned, each one, to his own way; but the Lord has caused the wickedness of us…
Read MoreS32P2 – A future look at Jesus: afflicted
Isa. 53:3-4He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief; and like One from whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him. But He has borne our griefs, and He has carried our sorrows and pains; yet…
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