I have confidence in you through the Lord… (Galatians 5:10 KJV)
Our confidence in one another is not based on what is in us, but rather it rests upon God and trusts in His work of redemption in us.
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them. (Genesis 26:18 NIV)
For our appeal [to you to believe] does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. (1 Thessalonians 2:3–4)
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it. (2 Timothy 3:14)
Christ commanded us that we should abide in his love continually — not just when the mood strikes us, not just when the…
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. (Psalm 142:3)
I read in Oswald Chambers this morning a great thought about the surprise of God and “The Graciousness of Uncertainty.” Of course, he was right, as he usually is. He wrote:
Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder.
Genesis 24:15
In chapters 23, 24, and 25 of Genesis the scene shifts from Abraham’s story to the story of Isaac, his son. There is solemnity here in the…
Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
Matthew 24:45–46
Just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him
Colossians 2:6
Christmas tends to take us to emotional mountaintops and the aftermath seems to leave us in emotional valleys. So much food, fun, pomp and ceremony…
The fruit of the Spirit is … faithfulnessGalatians 5:22I believe English speakers have a unique challenge to understand the biblical concept of faith, and this is partly because we have so many words for faith: believe, belief, trust, faithfulness, etc. Here, for example, it is…
Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
John 16:2–3