Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Grace

Don’t Forget His Promise and Presence

JOHN 16:33 – I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  DON’T FORGET HIS PROMISE AND PRESENCE.  The words of our Lord Jesus in today’s scripture are directed to a bunch of fear-gripped disciples.  Jesus is…

Look Up, Downcast Believer

ZEPHANIAH 3:17 – The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  LOOK UP, DOWNCAST BELIEVER.  The Apostle Paul would remind the believers in Corinth of a very important truth…

Oh May It Never Be So!

PSALM 130 – Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice!  Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,…

His Was Are Not Our Ways

JOB 36:15 – He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  HIS WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS.  The theme of today’s nugget comes from a familiar passage in the major prophet book of Isaiah – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For…

Thanksgiving From The Depths

JONAH 2:1-9 –Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me;…