AND IT CAME TO PASS It came to pass – to happen. This phrase occurs several times in the Old Testament. It often indicates that what is happening is the result of a course of events. It also describes the different events and phases of earthly history and experience, implying...
29 April “He opened the rock, and water gushed out; It ran in the dry places like a river. For He remembered His holy promise.” (Psalm 105: 41-42) After 430 years, most of which were lived in slavery in Egypt, the Israelites cried out to God and He finally set them free. During...
28 April “The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, And He will make me walk on my high hills.”(Habakkuk 3:19) Living in such challenging times as these does not change who God is, nor what He is working out as His immediate and ultimate plan and victory. He...
27 April “The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore, my heart greatly rejoices ,And with my song I will praise Him.”(Psalm 28:7) Our world is full of troubles, trials and tribulations. God is our only real source of safety and peace. Instead of...
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...