DELIVER US FROM EVIL ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” Matt.6:13 Stuff happens. There is plenty of bad stuff to go around for everybody. There is physical sickness, emotional struggles, marriage problems, financial woes. Then there are stuggles with work, issues with our children, political problems; need I say …
FATHER “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.” Matt.6:9 “Father”, inside of every human is the need and the longing for a father. This generation has been labeled many things, one of the most alarming is “fatherless generation”. From divorce to alcoholism, from skewed ambition to just …
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Matt.5:8 All of us are looking for happiness, or like Jesus said, blessedness. Every person and every creature in God’s creation are looking for their version of pleasure. The bird is looking for his worm, the cat is …
Oil in the Cupboard-Merry Monday by Parris Bailey “Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to …
A NEW KIND OF FOOD “For the bread of God is *that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.” Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he …
THE EARTH IS YOURS The earth is the LORD’S, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. For He has founded it upon the seas And established it upon the rivers. Ps.24:1,2 Recently, Parris and I went kayaking in Florida at St. Joseph’s State Park (I never knew Joseph had a …
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever …
FINISH THE RACE THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance …
HEAVENLY BREAD Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval. John 6:27 Jesus is beginning to prepare His followers for the day He would be gone. They were clinging …
NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus …
