26 April “Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”(Matthew 7:12) Tough, isn’t it? This saying is called The Golden Rule and is common to most religions. Jesus gave us this rule in the positive form, whereas most others...
25 April “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” (Psalm 50:15) I just love this verse. I have used it many times and it always works. Most often I tell my Lord how and where I will glorify Him, and...
24 April “Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:8-9a) At times of challenges, we pray and also seek solutions in various...
23 April A PRAYER FOR WEEK 17 “All the nations that assemble to attack Jerusalem will be like a starving person who dreams he is eating and wakes up hungry, or like someone dying of thirst who dreams he is drinking and wakes with a dry throat.” (Isaiah 29:8) Please...
22 April “But I replied, ‘Should someone in my position run from danger? Should someone in my position enter the Temple to save his life? No, I won’t do it!’” (Nehemiah 6:11 NLT) Pretending to be on his side when the enemies plotted against him to stop his God-ordained assignment,...
21 April “Lamech lived … and had a son. And he called his name Noah, saying, ‘This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord has cursed.’” (Genesis 5:28-28 NKJV) God is sovereign, ordering and structuring creation. Lamech saw the hardship required to till the...
20 April “But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” (Romans 15:1 LEB) Do we see ourselves as strong and therefore have no tolerance for those who are weak? Lucy’s company had just offered a young girl employment as a...
19 April “These were the sons of Zibeon: both Ajah and Anah. This was the Anah who found the water in the wilderness as he pastured the donkeys of his father Zibeon. These were the children of Anah: Dishon and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.” (Genesis 36:24-25 NKJV) Anah was not only diligent and successful in the family business; he...
18 April “So, I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.” (Joel 2:25 NKJV) This may or may not be a promise for restoration of lost wealth or prosperity. The most important thing man has lost is his relationship with God. When we accept Jesus as Lord...
17 April “And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years….She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. …. And immediately…..she was healed of her disease.”(Mark 5: 24-29) Jesus Christ is passing through,...