Bible Verses: Matthew 6:19-34Matthew 5:6John 4:1-14John 6:35Psalms 36:8Isaiah 55:1
Read MoreGod's people are doubly his children, they are his offspring by creation, and they are his sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call him, "Our Father which art in heaven." Father! Oh, what precious word is that. Here is authority: "If I be a Father, where is mine honour?" If ye be sons, where is your obedience? Here is affection mingled with authority; an authority which does not provoke rebellion; an obedience demanded which is most cheerfully rendered-which would not...
Bible Verses: Matthew 6:26
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 MoreBible Verses: Mark 4:26-32Matthew 6:28-30John 12:24Mark 4:30-32
Read MoreThe Christian life is very simple - if only we understand it. It has only one principle - single-hearted devotion to Christ. Paul stated this principle when he said, "To me to live is Christ" (Philippians 1:21) Jesus states it here also when He says, "Seek first His kingdom, and His righteousness."
In our present passage, we have a whole scheme of life.
To begin...
Bible Verses: Matthew 6:19-34Philippians 1:21Philippians 4:6-7
Read MoreThe Christian life is very simple - if only we understand it. It has only one principle - single-hearted devotion to Christ. Paul stated this principle when he said, "To me to live is Christ" (Philippians 1:21) Jesus states it here also when He says, "Seek first His kingdom, and His righteousness."
In our present passage, we have a whole scheme of life.
To begin...
Bible Verses: Matthew 6:19-34Philippians 1:21Philippians 4:6-7
Read MoreA little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked. § Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure with trouble. § Godliness with contentment is great gain … Having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.Give me neither poverty nor riches—feed me with the food allotted to me; lest I be full and deny You, and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, and profane the name of my God. § Give us this day our daily bread....
Bible Verses: Luke 12:15Psalms 37:16Proverbs 15:161 Timothy 6:61 Timothy 6:8Proverbs 30:8Proverbs 30:9Matthew 6:11Matthew 6:25Luke 22:35Hebrews 13:5
Read MoreI bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.”—In his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.—Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, the Lord alone guided him.
Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I...
Bible Verses: Deuteronomy 1:31Exodus 19:4Isaiah 63:9Deuteronomy 32:11Deuteronomy 32:12Isaiah 46:4Psalms 48:14Psalms 55:22Matthew 6:25Matthew 6:321 Samuel 7:12
Read MoreHis saints are in Your hand. § The word of the Lord came to [Elijah], saying, “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” … Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”Do not worry about your life, what...
Bible Verses: Psalms 31:15Deuteronomy 33:31 Kings 17:21 Kings 17:41 Kings 17:81 Kings 17:9Matthew 6:25Matthew 6:32Proverbs 3:5Proverbs 3:61 Peter 5:7
Read MoreYou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in YAH, the Lord, is everlasting strength.Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you. § He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from Him; but when He cried to Him, He heard. § Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray.Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. § Do not worry...
Bible Verses: Psalms 42:6Isaiah 26:3Isaiah 26:4Psalms 55:22Psalms 22:24James 5:13John 14:27Matthew 6:25Matthew 6:26John 20:27Matthew 28:20
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For Reading and Meditation: Matthew 6:19-34
We turn now to the next of our Lord's Beatitudes: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled" (Matthew 5:6). One of the axioms of life is this: everyone thirsts after something. Some thirst for success, some thirst for fame, some...