Bible Verses: Acts 1:1-11Ephesians 1:20-21Mark 16:9-19Psalms 68:18Luke 24:50-51Philippians 2:91 Peter 3:22
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All God's gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen. He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which he has treasured up in Christ Jesus, he provides of his goodness for the poor. You may trust him for all the necessities that can occur, for he has infallibly foreknown every one of them. He can say of us in all conditions, "I knew that thou wouldst be this and that." A man goes a journey across the desert, and when he has made a day's advance, and pitched his tent,...
Bible Verses: Psalms 68:10
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It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen that which he has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in this, that many Christians may blame themselves for those trials and afflictions of spirit which arise from unbelief. It is true that Satan seeks to flood the fair garden of the heart and make it a scene of desolation, but it is also true that many Christians leave open the sluice-gates themselves, and let in the dreadful deluge through...
Bible Verses: Psalms 68:28
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God places the lonely in families. (Psalm 68:6 NLT)
The higher position of "Ephesians" is this – that now, being quickened and
raised together with Christ and seated in the heavenlies is a matter of
relatedness to other believers, and in that relatedness, you are going to find
your fullness. You are never going to find spiritual enlargement just as an
isolated,...
Bible Verses: Psalms 68:6
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When they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. § Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God! § He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases...
Bible Verses: Deuteronomy 33:25Mark 13:11Matthew 6:34Psalms 68:35Isaiah 40:292 Corinthians 12:92 Corinthians 12:10Philippians 4:13Judges 5:21
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Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. § I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory … I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God.You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men, even from the rebellious, that the Lord God might dwell there.You are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will...
Bible Verses: 2 Chronicles 6:18Exodus 25:8Exodus 29:43Exodus 29:45Psalms 68:182 Corinthians 6:161 Corinthians 6:19Ephesians 2:22Ezekiel 37:28
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For Reading and Meditation: Acts 1:1-11
Before we conclude our meditations on the uniqueness of Christianity, we must mention our Lord's ascension. I much prefer the word exaltation to ascension to describe Christ's return to the throne of God, for that is what it really was - an exaltation. Paul, in some verses in the passage we looked at yesterday (