The Secret Life Merry Monday by Parris Bailey My early years at Bible School were spent dreaming of distant lands. Frank and I devoured missionary books and dreamed of spending our lives on foreign soil. It was the life of Hudson Taylor in China that impacted me most. The plan back in 1978 was that …
SEEING THE INVISIBLE Rom. 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, There is an entire other realm, Jesus called it the kingdom of God, that our natural senses …
ALL THINGS NEW Rev. 21:5 ¶ And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.” I will never forget certain scenes from the movie, “The Passion of the Christ”, Gethsemane, the whipping post, and the crucifixion scenes remain …
SOMEONE IS THINKING ABOUT YOU Psa. 139:17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! One of the amazing phenomenons of the twenty-first century is the social networks available to all of us. Of course there are many reasons for their success, but surely one of …
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW Rom. 1:1-4 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared …
BLAZING LAMPS OF FIRE Rev. 4:4-5 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the …
THE LION AND THE LAMB Rev. 5:6 ¶ And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent …
RAPT UP OR JUST TICKED OFF Merry Monday by Parris Bailey Rev. 1:10 “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.” John made a special effort to inform us that he was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day while a prisoner on …
JOINING GOD’S CHORUS 2Cor. 9:10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness; All of God’s creation is in constant movement, responding to the chorus leader, the Lord, in heaven. The ocean, sky, trees, the flowers …
YOU GOTTA EAT John 6:55-57 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live …
