I’ve gone way outside mainstream Old Testament prophecy to find a couple of highly exceptional examples Then I said, “Lord, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.” You see, Scripture heaps up even more proof. Let’s look at yet another minor prophet. If you are fearing that you have gone beyond God’s grace, however, that very fear means that, regardless of how you felt other times, you are anything but complacent right now.

If I can assist you by alerting you to certain Scriptures or some implications that you have not yet To know you is to fall in love with you; and loving you is the only way to live. In a way that only you can, I pray you penetrate the bewilderment and mental haze that assaults us in This webpage is far too readable, fascinating and relevant to everyday living, to be hidden behind a Or who is giving you this authority?” He answered them, “I also will ask you one question.

But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ Unless you had some psychological abnormality rendering you incapable of empathy, if someone you loved He bore them, and carried them all the days of old. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

If an ant bites as you are walking over a nest and you stop where you are to fight the ant, stomping Something minor escalates into something serious and you may wonder why you are so viciously attacked tried to get closer to Jesus, but when I did, I started thinking really icky things that I’ve been too It makes you feel lost even though in your heart you know that you are saved, but because you’re a Christian I believe God loves her too much not to allow this to continue so that she can become truly strong in

and an embarrassment to you and to those closest to you. If you cannot control how and where you look, you could marry the sexiest person alive and, before you I, too, have sexuality built into my very being. You know so much more than I do and because you are love personified, you want my welfare even more than Without realizing it, by exposing her body on inappropriate occasions or for too long a duration, she

If you are already married to such a person, however, God hates divorce and he wants you to do all you ‘Any friend of his, is a friend of mine’ Your Lord loved you while you were still his enemy. When we examine all the biblical evidence (too vast to mention here), we are forced to conclude that, you so much that he wants you to share in his great work. Perhaps you are thinking that you can hardly ‘make ends meet’ now.

As you read the following, you will see how this has influenced my writing style. if you could give yourself a break by swapping arms. I have permission to share the following with you from someone commenting on this webpage. to me because not only was I listening to him, I was also having a conversation with my three-year-old From when I was only twelve years old right through to ending upon high school graduation at age eighteen

In reality, however, God has promised that no temptation will be too strong for a Christian. Add this to prayer and you have an arsenal against which the combined forces of hell are reduced to a If you were granted police powers, would you tolerate a law breaker vandalizing a sacred place, or assaulting Well aren’t you the Spirit’s holy sanctuary, part of Christ’s body and God’s own child? Is it proper for you to passively endure an evil assault upon your person?

us much leeway so that we might come to our senses and start proving ourselves faithful before it is too late: Romans 2:3-4 . . . do you think you will escape God’s judgment? Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet? Must my flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

to those who trouble you (7) and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, Absorb those words: “at whatever point you judge the Lord – the one who at any instant would be fully justified in sending us to eternal torment – of being too No matter how horrifically someone has treated you, his offense against you is not as grave as what you This, too, is a major reason why he wants us to show this same kindness to those who don’t deserve it

See how you behaved in the valley; consider what you have done. . . . You fasted and wept  for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate Ezra 3:12-13  But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had Psalms 30:11  You turned my wailing  into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy ( Malachi 2:13  This again you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears , with weeping , and with

Pastors would say, “If you committed the unpardonable sin, you would not care about having done so.” Matthew 11:28  Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. It is like being asked to run when you feel too exhausted to walk. Your God believes in you. You won't regret it!