David Woll

  • davidjwoll
  • Longview, WA
  • What Jesus Cares About

    Jesus commends the church in Ephesus for staying pure, remaining faithful and testing false teachers and doctrines. But he reveals what he really cares about more than all those things. "But I have this…

    Created 5 days ago

    Revelation 2:4 (NLT)

  • God's word continues to work in you

    1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NLT)
    Therefore, we never stop thanking God that when you received his message from us, you didn’t think of our words as mere human ideas. You accepted what we said as the very word of God—which, of course, it is. And this word continues to work in you who believe.

    Created 14 days ago

  • Peter didn't see it coming

    Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, Peter—this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me." "No!" Peter insisted. "Even if I have to die with you, I will never…

    Created 24 days ago

    Matthew 26:34 (NLT), Matthew 26:35 (NLT), Matthew 26:69 (NLT), Matthew 26:70 (NLT), Matthew 26:71 (NLT), Matthew 26:72 (NLT), Matthew 26:73 (NLT), Matthew 26:74 (NLT), Matthew 26:75 (NLT)

  • Gravity pulling us down

    Uriah replied, "The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents, and Joab and my master's men are camping in the open fields. How could I go home to wine and dine and sleep with my wife?…

    Created 27 days ago

    2 Samuel 11:11 (NLT)

  • David holds to God's promise - God blesses him because he is good - David seeks his glory

    2 Samuel 7:26-27 (NLT)
    And may your name be honored forever so that everyone will say, ‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is God over Israel!’ And may the house of your servant David continue before you forever.

    Created 28 days ago

  • The Reason for God's Blessing

    And David realized that the Lord had confirmed him as king over Israel and had greatly blessed his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. (1 Chronicles 14:2 NLT) David realized that when King Hiram…

    Created about 1 month ago

    1 Chronicles 14:2 (NLT)

  • Pray this when facing opposition

    Psalm 140:1-13 (NLT)
    OLORD, rescue me from evil people. Protect me from those who are violent,

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Jesus was a man

    Matthew 12:48-50 (NLT)
    Jesus asked, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”

    Created about 1 month ago

  • David found strength in the Lord

    1 Samuel 30:6 (NLT)
    David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Jesus Makes Everything Harder

    In his most famous sermon, Jesus sets the record straight as to why he came. He didn't come to make the law go away. In fact, he raised the bar and made it harder to be innocent. Thanks a lot! To the…

    Created about 1 month ago

    Matthew 5:17 (NLT), Matthew 5:18 (NLT), Matthew 5:19 (NLT), Matthew 5:20 (NLT), Matthew 5:21 (NLT), Matthew 5:22 (NLT)

  • When I Am Weak

    2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NLT)
    Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • What to Boast About

    2 Corinthians 12:6 (NLT)
    If I wanted to boast, I would be no fool in doing so, because I would be telling the truth. But I won’t do it, because I don’t want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or hear in my message,

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2012-03-27

  • The kind of faith that like...well...sucks

    Did you know you could have so little faith that even God has a hard time believing how bad your faith is? Did you know that you could have a kind of faith that could impress even God? And he was amazed…

    Created 3 months ago

    Mark 6:6 (NLT), Luke 7:9 (NLT)

  • Right in front of you...

    for they still didn't understand the significance of the miracle of the loaves. Their hearts were too hard to take it in. (Mark 6:52 NLT) The disciples had just witnessed Jesus feeding 5,000 people with…

    Created 3 months ago

    Mark 6:52 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge

    2012-02-24

  • Fellow sinners

    When Jesus heard this, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners." (Mark 2:17 NLT)…

    Created 3 months ago

    Mark 2:17 (NLT)

  • Where God speaks from...

    Numbers 7:89 (NLT)
    Whenever Moses went into the Tabernacle to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from between the two cherubim above the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. The LORD spoke to him from there.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Cf luke 8

    Leviticus 15:25 (NLT)
    “If a woman has a flow of blood for many days that is unrelated to her menstrual period, or if the blood continues beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially unclean. As during her menstrual period, the woman will be unclean as long as the discharge continues.

    Created 4 months ago

    Labels: luke 8

  • How long would you be willing to wait for God's timing? How about 40 years?

    He thought his brothers would be glad that he was on their side, and even see him as an instrument of God to deliver them. But they didn't see it that way. (Acts 7:25 MSG) Moses thought his position…

    Created 4 months ago

    Acts 7:25 (MSG)

  • God wants you, the raw material

    Make me an earthen Altar....If you use stones to make my Altar, don't use dressed stones. If you use a chisel on the stones you'll profane the Altar. (Exodus 20:24, 25 MSG) God instructs the Israelites…

    Created 4 months ago

    Exodus 20:24 (MSG), Exodus 20:25 (MSG)

  • Contentment

    Psalm 4:6-8 (MSG)
    Why is everyone hungry for more? "More, more," they say. "More, more." I have God's more-than-enough, More joy in one ordinary day

    Created 5 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan

    2012-01-01

  • I have overcome the world

    John 16:33 (NLT)
    I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

    Created 5 months ago

  • "Oliver"

    John 15:16 (NIV)
    You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights

    2011-12-20

  • When Jesus seems to leave, wait

    When Jesus saw that they were ready to force him to be their king, he slipped away into the hills by himself. That evening Jesus' disciples went down to the shore to wait for him. But as darkness fell…

    Created 5 months ago

    John 6:15 (NLT), John 6:16 (NLT), John 6:17 (NLT), John 6:18 (NLT), John 6:19 (NLT), John 6:20 (NLT), John 6:21 (NLT)

  • You can't trust praise

    John 2:23-25 (NLT)
    Because of the miraculous signs Jesus did in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration, many began to trust in him.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Sinful angels already thrown into hell, awaiting judgment

    2 Peter 2:4 (NLT)
    For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, in gloomy pits of darkness, where they are being held until the day of judgment.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Jesus, a perfect leader through suffering

    Here, scripture explains that Jesus was made a perfect leader through suffering. Since a servant is not greater than his master, any spiritual leader should expect to suffer for Christ in order to be…

    Created 6 months ago

    Hebrews 2:10 (NLT), Hebrews 2:18 (NLT)

  • God's Love, My Rescue

    And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers…

    Created 6 months ago

    Romans 8:38 (NLT)

  • If you want to please everyone, don't follow Christ

    Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ's servant. (Galatians 1:10 NLT) Sometimes pleasing God and people is mutually…

    Created 7 months ago

    Galatians 1:10 (NLT)

  • Ouch!

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say something radical. Ready? It doesn't seem like Jesus really wanted to make friends with the religious leaders of his day. Okay, so maybe that's not really radical.…

    Created 7 months ago

    Mark 7:8 (NLT)

  • We all need an advocate

    Job, in his desperate situation where everything went wrong for him and no one understood him, knew he needed someone to take up his cause. Even now my witness is in heaven. My advocate is there on high...…

    Created 7 months ago

    Job 16:19 (NLT), Job 16:20 (NLT), Job 16:21 (NLT), Hebrews 9:15 (NLT), Hebrews 9:24 (NLT)

  • Saving Power

    1 Peter 1:18-19 (NLT)
    For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver.

    Created 8 months ago

  • Saving Power

    Hebrews 9:12-14 (NLT)
    With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever.

    Created 8 months ago

  • It's nothing personal

    Then he said to the disciples, "Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God, who sent me." (Luke 10:16…

    Created 8 months ago

    Luke 10:16 (NLT)

  • Scandalous

    Here Jesus declares the so-called "sinful woman" forgiven. Those around him scoffed and questioned how her sins could be forgiven. How could this man, Jesus, possibly have the authority to forgive sins?…

    Created 8 months ago

    Luke 7:47 (NLT), Luke 7:48 (NLT), Luke 7:49 (NLT), Luke 7:50 (NLT)

  • Impossible to please

    Luke 7:32 (NLT)
    They are like children playing a game in the public square. They complain to their friends, ‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t weep.’

    Created 8 months ago

  • Fruity Pebbles

    A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes. (Luke 6:44 NLT) It would be just as ridiculous to say, "That's an apple tree,…

    Created 8 months ago

    Luke 6:44 (NLT)

  • God's trick

    My friend Kurtis says that God tricked him when he read this verse: "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." This is true, but not in the way he thought. He found…

    Created 8 months ago

    Psalm 37:4 (NLT), Psalm 105:19 (NLT)

  • A paradox

    Psalm 130:3-4 (NLT)
    LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, OLord, could ever survive?

    Created 8 months ago

  • Angi

    Ezekiel 39:25-29 (NLT)
    “So now, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will end the captivity of my people; I will have mercy on all Israel, for I jealously guard my holy reputation!

    Created 9 months ago

  • The essence of prophecy

    Revelation 19:10 (NLT)
    Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said, “No, don’t worship me. I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify about their faith in Jesus. Worship only God. For the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus.”

    Created 9 months ago

    Labels: prophecy

  • God's sovereignty

    Daniel 2:20-22 (NLT)
    He said, “Praise the name of God forever and ever, for he has all wisdom and power.

    Created 9 months ago

  • The hope of heaven

    Revelation 7:15-17 (NLT)
    “That is why they stand in front of God’s throne and serve him day and night in his Temple. And he who sits on the throne will give them shelter.

    Created 9 months ago

    Labels: heaven

  • God's mercy in the OT

    Even in one of the darkest prophetic books that declares doom and judgment, God's fairness and desire to see everyone live well is clearly communicated. "Do you think that I like to see wicked people…

    Created 9 months ago

    Ezekiel 18:1 (NLT), Ezekiel 18:31 (NLT), Ezekiel 18:32 (NLT), Ezekiel 33:11 (NLT)

  • Jesus wants relationship with us

    Revelation 3:20 (NLT)
    “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.

    Created 9 months ago

  • God's omnipresence

    Jeremiah 23:24 (NLT)
    Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?” says the LORD.

    Created 10 months ago

  • The heart is tricky

    Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NLT)
    “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

    Created 10 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2011-08-14

  • Started Following dorseyss

    10 months

  • Jesus' example for leaders

    Jesus is washing the feet of his disciples. Here is the King of Kings stooping to wash the dirty feet of these men who followed him. And he says, "The servant is no greater than his master." So if Jesus,…

    Created 10 months ago

    John 13:12 (NLT), John 13:13 (NLT), John 13:14 (NLT), John 13:15 (NLT), John 13:16 (NLT), John 13:17 (NLT)

  • Getting Fired Up

    It's intriguing that Jesus was said to be deeply angered, troubled. Maybe his anger was a reaction to the knowledge that this is not the way the world is supposed to be. Death was not a part of the original…

    Created 10 months ago

    John 11:33 (NLT)

  • Don't let it go to your head

    If you're a leader, follow the example of Jesus and receive every compliment with a grain of salt. Don't work for the praise of man, but try to make God happy. Paul made that his goal. He said, "Work…

    Created 10 months ago

    Proverbs 29:25 (NIV), John 2:23 (NIV), John 2:24 (NIV), John 2:25 (NIV), Galatians 1:1 (NIV), 2 Timothy 2:1 (NIV)

  • Are the cynics right?

    "But perhaps you will say to me, `We are trusting in the Lord our God!' But isn't he the one who was insulted by Hezekiah? Didn't Hezekiah tear down his shrines and altars and make everyone in Judah and…

    Created 10 months ago

    Isaiah 36:7 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-07-02

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-04-18

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-03-21

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-03-15

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-03-14

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-01-23