26 AUGUST HANDICAP TURNED INTO STRENGTH “Again the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.” (Judges 3:15, NIV) Security was tight to enter into the...
25 AUGUST BE THE MASTER NOT THE MASTERED “I have the right to do anything,” you say— but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”— but I will not be mastered by anything.” (1 Corinthians 6:12, NIV) “Free! Free! He who the Son of man sets...
24 AUGUST SAVED BY COURAGE AND HOPE “But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our courage and the hope in which we boast.” (Hebrews 3:6, NIV) Here is a story adapted from an online forum: “One...
23 AUGUST DOUBTS CAN LEAD TO DESTRUCTION “The officer on whose arm the king was leaning said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will...
22 AUGUST THE MUDDY JORDAN RIVER (2) “Naaman’s servants went to him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’! (2 Kings 5:13, NIV) Can...
21 AUGUST THE MUDDY JORDAN RIVER “Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.” (2 Kings 5:10) I remember, on our visit to Israel, at the source of the Jordan...
20 AUGUST THE WOMAN AT THE WELL “Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring...
19 AUGUST LOVE IS THE WAY OF LIFE! “For the love of Christ controls us.” (2 Corinthians 5:14) “For the love of Christ constraineth us” (KJV). “For Christ’s love compels us” (NIV). “My wife erred but please forgive her. She is a woman of valour, passion and a dedicated and...
18 AUGUSTWORDS MAY BE DECEITFUL The Gibeonites answered: “Your servants have come from a very distant country because of the fame of the Lord your God. For we have heard reports of him: all that he did in Egypt.” (Joshua 9: 10) The Gibeonites pretended to be who they were...
17 AUGUST THE SNARE OF SUCCESS “Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions, but they did not ask counsel from the Lord. And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.”...