Archive for July 2022
A sad but beautiful refinement
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4rips-1288683 Before the return of Christ, a great apostasy will occur. Unpleasant but necessary, this is a stage of the Church’s purification that we cannot ignore or dispel as some future event too removed in time from us. The warning is there for all that great deception is ahead and that all are vulnerable.
Read MoreS149P1 – Stories of life and death: Elijah
2 Kgs. 2:9-12a When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.” And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I…
Read MoreS148P5 – Doing much with little: a single cast
Lk. 5:4-7 And when [Jesus] had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” And when they had done this, they enclosed a…
Read MoreS148P4 – Doing much with little: some oil and flour
1 Kgs. 17:10-12 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” And as she was going to bring it, he…
Read MoreS148P3 – Doing much with little: a few crumbs
Exo. 16:31-35 Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with…
Read MoreS148P2 – Doing much with little: a sling and a stone
1 Sam. 17:48-50 When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead,…
Read MoreS148P1 – Doing much with little: 300 men
Jgs. 7:7-8 And the LORD said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.” So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel…
Read MoreS147P8 – Lost to disobedience: direction
Jon. 1:13-16 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. Therefore they called out to the LORD, “O LORD, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O LORD,…
Read MoreTimes and seasons
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8t8bb-12808c6 Eras, seasons and times. That is what we expect to experience in this life. Or perhaps life is just one long yet brief season. Or perhaps it is both.
Read MoreS147P7 – Lost to disobedience: God’s alliance
Jer. 21:4-6 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst…
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