Deut.11:12 – the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year. I used to really look forward to our annual visit with Dick Mills about this time every year. Brother Mills came to our church around New Year’s day almost …
Jer.1:11,12 – NASB – And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it. This is an amazing promise …
Ezekiel.37:9,10 – Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and …
Lk.2:30 – for my eyes have seen Your salvation… When Simeon looked upon Christ he said he was looking upon the SOTERION- The Savior of the world. Using this terminology is shocking, he is describing forgiveness of sins as well as salvation from the consequences of sins. Simeon knew the gravity of that statement, as …
Lk.2:38 – While Simeon was prophesying over Mary and Joseph and the baby, Anna walked up to them and burst forth with a great chorus of praise to God for the child. And from that day forward she told everyone in Jerusalem who was waiting for their redemption that the anticipated Messiah had come! Anna …
Lk.2:29,30 – Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation… This was Simeon’s moment, the moment he had been waiting for all his life. This experience with Christ would define his whole existence. Simeon said that his eyes had seen the salvation …
Hag.2:6,7 – For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith …
Matt.2:10 – When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. Even God’s creation is calling out to all mankind, “Come to Jesus!!”. The wise men came from a distant land heeding the call of God through a star. The closer they got, their joyful anticipation increased. They were about to experience the …
Matt.1:21 – And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. It had to be the most troubling night of Joseph’s life. As far as he could determine, his precious fiancée had been unfaithful. She was pregnant and came up with a …
Isa.9:6 – For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. I remember discovering the deity of Christ revealed in a human baby the first Christmas after I had been …
