No foul language should come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear. And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by him for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, anger and wrath, Read more
Then he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them. For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or a difficult language but to the house of Israel—not to the many peoples of unintelligible speech or Read more
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life. (4:23) Here Solomon is obviously speaking of the heart in a metaphorical sense. We know that the actual organ which pumps our blood is not what needs to be guarded. Yet, as our physical hearts are the Read more
God, you know my foolishness, and my guilty acts are not hidden from you. Do not let those who put their hope in you be disgraced because of me, Lord God of Armies; do not let those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel. 69:5-6 Nobody Read more
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the Read more
1 Kings 10-13 CSB King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women from the nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn Read more
The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.” He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning. Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing Read more
1 Kings 5-9 CSB At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s temple and the royal palace—King Hiram of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish—King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land Read more
May God be gracious to us and bless us; may he make his face shine upon us so that your way may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. (67:1-2) We often tend to lean on verse one without taking into account verse two. We all want the Read more
Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap, because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. Let us not get tired Read more