Bible Verses: Romans 14:5-131 Corinthians 81 Corinthians 101 Corinthians 10:291 Corinthians 9:15-22Acts 20:35Romans 15:11 Thessalonians 5:14
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Having spent the past days identifying the nature of the problem which almost caused the psalmist to give up, we pause today to focus on another great value of the book of Psalms - the fact that it presents its teaching in the form of a recital of experiences. We have exactly the same kind of teaching in the...
Bible Verses: 1 Corinthians 10:1-132 Peter 1:15-21Ephesians 1:17-192 Corinthians 4:6
Read MoreThe Bible is fairly full of tokens of God's marvelous care for His people. During Israel's forty-year trek through the wilderness, they ate food from heaven (Exodus 16:4), had an unfailing supply of water (1 Corinthians 10:4), and were equipped with shoes that never wore out (Deuteronomy 29:5).
It is the same in our wilderness journey. To prove this,...
Bible Verses: 1 Peter 5:7Exodus 16:41 Corinthians 10:4Deuteronomy 29:5Matthew 6:26Matthew 10:29Matthew 10:31Matthew 6:301 Corinthians 9:9Exodus 28:9-12Exodus 28:15-21Isaiah 49:16Matthew 10:30Psalms 56:8Zechariah 2:8Isaiah 54:17Isaiah 46:7Isaiah 46:4Isaiah 43:2Isaiah 63:9Psalms 121:3-4John 10:11Psalms 84:11Romans 8:32Deuteronomy 11:12Isaiah 46:4Hebrews 13:5
Read MoreAll our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. § One of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. § He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him,...
Bible Verses: Psalms 78:201 Corinthians 10:11 Corinthians 10:41 Corinthians 10:3John 19:34Isaiah 53:5John 5:40Jeremiah 2:13John 7:37Revelation 22:17
Read MoreO Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps. § Not as I will, but as You will. § Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.We do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes...
Bible Verses: Matthew 26:42Jeremiah 10:23Matthew 26:39Psalms 131:2Romans 8:26Romans 8:27Matthew 20:22Psalms 106:151 Corinthians 10:61 Corinthians 7:32Isaiah 26:3
Read MoreThat Rock was Christ. § Simon Peter … said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” … “On this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” § Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.Full assurance of faith … Hope without wavering. § Faith, with no doubting. He who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.Who shall separate us from...
Bible Verses: Psalms 40:21 Corinthians 10:4Matthew 16:16Matthew 16:17Matthew 16:18Acts 4:12Hebrews 10:22Hebrews 10:23James 1:6Romans 8:35Romans 8:37Romans 8:39
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And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God" (Eph 3:19).
God led the children of Israel into the desert with its thirst, that He might bless them. "For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock...
Bible Verses: Ephesians 3:191 Corinthians 10:4Romans 8:2Hebrews 12:11
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For Reading and Meditation: Romans 14:5-13
It seems almost unbelievable that the thing which stopped the psalmist's feet from slipping and sliding was not the awareness of his relationship with God but the awareness of his relationship with his brothers and sisters. It might not have been the highest spiritual principle he could have held on to, but it saved...