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Job 38:2
Job 38:2 (AMP)
Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?Created 4 months ago
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Job 33:13
Job 33:13 (AMP)
Why do you contend against Him? For He does not give account of any of His actions. [Sufficient for us it should be to know that it is He Who does them.]Created 4 months ago
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Job 12:24
Job 12:24 (AMP)
He takes away understanding from the leaders of the people of the land and of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.Created 5 months ago
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2 Chronicles 35:21,22
2 Chronicles 35:21-22 (AMP)
But [Neco] sent ambassadors to [Josiah], saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war; and God has commanded me to make haste. Refrain from opposing God, Who is with me, lest He destroy you.Created 5 months ago
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The Law and God's Favour
Israel did not have the law, but when they sought God earnestly in their time of need He was found of them. Keeping rules and stuff is NOT a compulsory prerequisite for God to hear your prayer! Just fervent…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights
2011-12-07
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A wicked environment is no excuse
Can you imagine the danger in Obadiah's circumstances? Here you are, living in the most rebellious period in your country's history, serving in the house (and in no mean capacity but that of a Steward-…
Created 6 months ago
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God looks at the heart
Asa was guilty of the same crime as many of his predecessors- he did not tear down the high places. For whatever reason- be it political expediency, or human rights or freedom of worship or whatever,…
Created 6 months ago
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Not all tragedy is bad news
How many times are we prone to invoke the Devil or some power of darkness when tragedy strikes? And how many times, when we read the passages of mass judgement metted out by God to a whole group of people…
Created 6 months ago
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Never be surprised by ingratitude
People are cruel. They are vile, ungrateful, double-crossing back-stabbers. That's just the way we are. Its human nature. After all David did for Mephibosheth, look how he repaid him. But its nothing…
Created 6 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-11-01
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Slay the dragon!
The people of Israel committed a grave error that is committed by Christians till this very day. They would not slay the dragon of spiritual temptation away from the Lord; they would coddle it, tame it,…
Created 7 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-10-29
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After the wilderness comes the good land
The wilderness experience can be a long very painful period. Forty years is a long LONG time! And the wilderness experience very often is not so much something God just arbitrarily chooses to put us through,…
Created 7 months ago
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It is no mean thing to stand before the Lord
Far too often people take for granted their privileges. The awesome honour of having the ear of the Creator of the Universe. We think is common. Talk to a devout Muslim or Bhuddist, and u will see the…
Created 8 months ago
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Exodus 33:13
Exodus 33:13 (AMP)
Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You [progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with You, perceiving and recognizing and understanding more strongly and clearly] and that I may find favor in Your sight. And [Lord, do] consider that this nation is Your people.Created 8 months ago
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Thirteen Years of going nowhere!
Thirteen years! Thirteen suffocating years! Can u imagine how endlessly the bleak dreary existence that was Joseph's must have stretched forth before him. A slave in a completely unfamiliar environment.…
Created 9 months ago
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even after all that, the chief butler forgot
"But even after all that, the chief butler forgot...". Let us not be surprised or grieved when people forget. In fact, let us learn to expect it. For people forget- that's just what they do. But God never…
Created 9 months ago
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Abimelech's weird compensation
If Abimelech swears He didn't touch Sarah (i.e. sleep with her) then why did he give such a hefty compensation? A thousand pieces of silver!- that's a bit much isn't it. Well while I believe him when…
Created 9 months ago
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Genesis 20:6
Genesis 20:6 (AMP)
Then God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know you did this in the integrity of your heart, for it was I Who kept you back and spared you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not give you occasion to touch her.Created 9 months ago
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God's righteous judgement
To all who say that God must not have been just in simply arbitrarily taking someone else's land and giving it to another; well there's your answer. The INIQUITY of the Amorites was not yet full. And…
Created 9 months ago
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Abram's 300
Wow. It looks like Abram totally routed the entire armies of the four kings with his 318 trained servants. something the 5 armies of the king of Sodom and his allies could not do! When God blesses u that…
Created 9 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-09-04
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-09-04
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Innocence lost: the entry of self-consciousness
And God said, "who told you you were naked?" Can it be that the first effect of the fall was a sudden self-consciousness that has marred human nature since? Until that point the 1st couple were totally…
Created 9 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-09-04