So [Jesus] stood over [Peter’s mother-in-law] and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and began to serve them. (Luke 4:39) ...
Running Again (Or, “How the Worst Itch Ever Reminded me of the Best Fix of All”) The itch was so bad I could barely stand ...
For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness (for the law made nothing perfect); but on ...
[The people] got up, drove Him out of town and brought Him to the edge of the hill their town was built on, intending to ...
You are my beloved Son. I take delight in you. (Luke 3:22b) The steadfast, unchanging posture of God the Father toward God the Son is ...
Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourself, “We have Abraham as our father,” for I tell you that God is ...
Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight. (Luke 3:4b) John’s job was to ready the masses to receive the Messiah. His task ...
Therefore, holy brothers [and sisters], you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession… (Hebrews 3:1) Jesus ...
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people. (Luke 2:52) Would you increase in your stature and standing ...
While they were there [in Bethlehem], the time came for [Mary] to give birth. (Luke 2:6) We live in a world of instant weather reports ...
[Jesus] is the radiance of the glory of God, and the exact imprint of His nature, and He upholds the universe by the word of ...
But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them. (Luke 2:19) Wonderful things were happening to Mary, and she ...
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and ...
And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, [Joseph and Mary] brought [Jesus] up to Jerusalem to present ...
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 2 Timothy 3 GOD’S WORD PREPARES YOU FOR GOD’S WORK All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable ...
When the angels had left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go straight to Bethlehem and see what has ...
God’s Hope For Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 3 GOD’S LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR HOLINESS And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before …
TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 3, faith, holiness, love, Receiving, works
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 2 GOD HAS PUT HIS TRUST IN YOU 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 2:4) It is …
TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 2, evangelism, faith, Gospel, grace, stewardship, trust, witnessing
God’s Hope for Your Heart from 1 Thessalonians 1 GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. (1 Thessalonians …
TOPICS: 1 Thessalonians 1, choice, election, predestination, salvation, value, worth
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 4 JESUS CAN TRULY RECONCILE Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him.) (Colossians 4:10) Paul had not been a fan of this Mark fellow. He had …
TOPICS: christian life, Colossians 4, conflict, disagreement, maturity, peace, reconciliation
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 74 GOD’S PLAN IS GREATER THAN YOUR PERCEPTION Why do You hold back Your hand, Your right hand? Take it from the fold of Your garment and destroy them! Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of …
TOPICS: deliverance, enemies, hardship, help, perception, perspective, Psalm 74, trials, waiting
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Psalm 73 GOD WILL NEVER LET GO OF YOU Nevertheless, I am continually with You; You hold my right hand. You guide me with Your counsel, and afterward You will receive me to glory. (Psalm 73:23-24) We live in a world of broken promises. …
TOPICS: abandonment, comfort, disappointment, faithfulness, Psalm 73
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 3 JESUS IS YOUR SOVEREIGN PEACE And let the peace of Christ rule in your heart, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. (Colossians 3:15) You never saw it coming. It’s that phone call you never thought you’d …
TOPICS: Colossians 3, freedom, lordship, pain, peace, September 11, stress, suffering, surrender, tragedy, worry
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 2 JESUS CLEARED YOUR DEBT COMPLETELY And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with …
TOPICS: atonement, Colossians 2, cross, debt, forgiveness, justice, propitiation, salvation, sin
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Colossians 1 JESUS IS YOUR POWER FOR THE PURPOSES OF GOD Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all His energy that He powerfully works within …
TOPICS: anointing, Colossians 1, devotion, mission, perspective, power, strength
God’s Hope for Your Heart from Philippians 4 GOD’S PEACE IS GREATER THAN YOUR PROBLEMS The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses …
TOPICS: anxiousness, hope, peace, perspective, Philippians 4, prayer, problems, suffering, supplication
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