During special occasions and during the different holiday seasons many people get invited to attend  parties and dinners at peoples’ homes.  Years ago it was the custom to lift up your glass and toast the person or persons who invited you  to the occasion.  Today, maybe the best man may still toast the bride and […]

The heart is the center of us all. Scripture tells us this about the heart.  Proverbs 4:23, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 27:19, “As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.” And Jeremiah says this in  Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above […]

Psalm 84:12 says, “Lord Almighty,    blessed, is the one who trusts in You.” Did you ever have a friend that you could not trust? I would say that if you did, that he wasn’t really a friend. A friend is a friend because you can trust him.  Yeshua says this in John 15:15,  “No […]

1 Corinthians 2:15-16 tells us, “But the one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.  For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of  Messiah.” The writer first asks the question, “Who has known the mind of […]

We want to take a closer look at Psalm 118, because it speaks of the mercy of God. When people go through their trials, they tend to think that God does not care about them, or that He is mean and cruel. But the psalmist speaks differently. We know by Scripture that David had many […]

The question is, does God pursue us?  Most people will say, “No”, but does Scripture bear that out? We see in Genesis 3:8-9 this,  “Now they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of […]

Isaiah 49:13 tells us, “Shout for joy, you heavens! And rejoice, you earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people and will have compassion on His afflicted.” So often we read Scripture, but we just don’t feel it. In our minds we say that God’s Word is truth, but […]

 Gen 1:26-27 tells us “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.  So God created […]

We celebrate our freedom, and we should because freedom is a gift from God. But there is a responsibility that goes with freedom and it is not something to take lightly or for granted. Freedom is not free, someone has to pay for that freedom. Here in America, many thousands of lives were given for […]

Luke 3:1-6 tells us this,  “And he (John the Baptist) came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins; as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “The voice of one calling out in the wilderness,‘Prepare the way of the […]

Today people are running here and there. It seems like time is also running, running away with our lives. We live in an instant world, click this and you are there. Knowledge is at our fingertips. We do not even need to leave our couch, and we can do almost anything. Pick up the phone […]

Numbers 21:16-17,  “From there they continued on to Be’er, the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.” Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it!” Be’er in Hebrew means well. When Israel was in need of water God always provided.  The […]

Today we hear about the persecuted church, but it is not only the church, the people of Israel are also persecuted, and many other faith’s as well. As we look we will see that there is a mark of the persecuted. Genesis 4:14-15 tells us this about Cain, “Behold, You have driven me this day […]

Today we have many people coming to America, they have left their country to come to ours to make a better life, but we see this in the Exodus story.  Exodus 12:38 says this, “ A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.”   God told the people […]

Have you ever felt like you are going through a drought in your life, a dry period, where it seems as though life has become so mundane, so routine, so uneventful, like the heavens have closed their ears to your prayers?  It is as if you are in a desert, a parched land, all alone. […]

Storing up Treasure in Heaven Mathew 6:19-21 tells us, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where […]

We have heard so much over the years about Social Justice.  A big part of this is the divide between the rich and the poor. But being children of the Most High, we want to hear from God’s Word regarding this subject. As always we want to live by God’s Word and not by man’s […]

While Yeshua was going through  Samaria one day, He stopped at Jacob’s well to rest. While He was resting His disciples went to get food and when they returned they urged Him to eat as John tells us in, John 4:31-38  “Meanwhile His disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”  But He said to them, “I […]

There is probably no other verse in the scriptures than Ecclesiastes 3:1-6, that is so popular even in the secular realm.  The song “Turn, Turn, Turn (There is a Season) became one of the rally songs of the Vietnam War in the 1960’s. It was a song of protest and had very little to do […]

Matthew 5, which we call the Sermon on the Mount, is a very well known portion of Scripture, especially the Beatitudes, but is probably the least portion that is lived out in our walk with God. Matthew 5:3 tells us this, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” The […]

There was a saying years ago, “Don’t cry over spilt milk,” or some said, “There is no use in crying over spilt milk.”  No matter how you say it, you have to ask  yourself why did they say it?  Well, I think that milk is something that we feel we will never run out of  […]

The Declaration of Independence states this, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —” We want to take a closer look into this statement, because this was […]

The Bible talks a lot about being ready. We want to look at these Scriptures to see if we are truly ready to do what God is asking us to do. Matthew 3:3, “For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said, “THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, […]

We are always hearing about living for God, but what about living with God. The purpose that God created was so that He could dwell with man. Yet, He did not create man as a spiritual being like Himself. But He created man to have a physical body, with an eternal spirit. You have to wonder […]

Ephesians 4:1-6 tells us,  “Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. […]

In this month of November, we take time to share a meal, and to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. This is what Thanksgiving is all about.  Maybe we don’t appreciate this time for what it is really about because we do not grow a garden, or we do not know what it takes for […]

This is a time when people celebrate the Word that was made flesh. So there is no better time than to see what it means to have the Word dwelling with us. We say that we are people of the New Covenant and rightly so. We even call our Scriptures “The New Covenant.”  The New […]

Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish song that came out about 1787. It means "Old Long Ago" or "Old Times Sake." It is a song about friendship. At twelve midnight on December 31st we begin anew, but every day and even every moment is a new beginning. We must make the most of every minute because no one knows what the next minute will bring.

There is a famous poem written by Robert Frost that we want to look at in part. This poem reminds me of a passage of Scripture in Luke 10.

As believers we like to quote Ephesians 3:12. But we forget sometimes whose presence we are entering into. We forget that God is holy and we also need to be holy, and to be holy we must have a reverence and a fear of the Lord.

As believers, we are always talking about salvation, but what exactly is salvation? We want to take a closer look into this word and its meaning.

So many times we bring our anxieties and concerns before God because we live in a time of uncertainty. We see Jeremiah coming before God with a question that has been echoed all through time: "Why does the way of the wicked prosper?" We want to look at God's response and how it pertains to us today.

In Part 1, we looked at God's response to Jeremiah when He was discouraged about the wicked who prosper. In Part 2 we are going to continue looking at these horses.

We want to continue looking at God's response to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 12:5 and how it relates to us, looking at the 3rd and 4th horse of Revelation.

We have been doing a series on running with the horses. We will continue by looking at the fifth seal and what it says about persecution and martyrdom.

Over the last several months we have been looking at each of the seven seals as we look at God's response to Jeremiah. This month we will look at the sixth and seventh seal.

In part 5, we saw that God tells us to be dressed ready for service and to keep our lamps burning. To do this, we must pray without ceasing, always in His Word, fighting the good fight—for our fight is a spiritual fight. Let's look at how a lifestyle in Messiah is all about the armor.

We have been looking at God’s response to Jeremiah as he asks, why do the wicked prosper?”  Jeremiah 12 1-5 “You are always righteous, Lord,  when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live […]

We have been looking at Jeremiah 12 these last several months and now we want to conclude our series by looking once again at the question and God’s answer. Jeremiah 12:1-5 “You are always righteous, Lord,  when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the […]