As we open to 1 Samuel 16 think with me what David must have felt: So much has happened so fast. First, “King for a day” in chapter 16 we met a young shepherd boy, minding his sheep when the greatest man in Israel comes and sits in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
None of us know what will be written across the pages of life tomorrow. So God invites us to cling to Him, since He already knows what lies ahead. We cling to God more and more through His promises, as we see how precarious life can get. If we...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Are you reverently serious about GOD? Reverence is feeling the “weight” of God in every part of our life and mind.The word “glory” as in the Glory of God in the Old Testament is actually the word “heaviness”....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Unemployment inched up to 9.6%, did you know God has insights for the unemployed in His Word the Bible? David suffers intense loneliness as he loses his job. In First Samuel 21:1-9 as he flees to Ahimelech the priest, David writes Psalm...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
So David finds that when God is at work in us it is not theoretical, it is real-time, daily life that the Lord wants to change in us. So to deepen the truths David learned at En Gedi in I Samuel 24, and make them a part of the fabric of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The pathway to usefulness is consecration. That is the pathway that God had to lead Isaiah along. That is the pathway we all need to follow.Only what is attached to God will last forever. Anything that is not attached to God needs to be...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
At the heart of bitterness is some form of a hurt that is internalized and not forgiven.Christ's FrighteningWarning to BelieversPerhaps the strongest warning Jesus ever gave to his disciples was in Matthew 18—he warned that the results of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When God is at work in us it is not theoretical, it is real-time, daily life that the Lord wants to change in us. So to deepen the truths David learned, and make them a part of the fabric of David’s life, the Lord allows David to get deeply...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we come to 1 Samuel 22, we find David hiding in a cave, and living on a day to day, just making it mode surrounded by troubles. His experience is mirrored in the lives of multiplied people across the world. When live reduces to being just...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
