Lk.5:21-24 – The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” But Jesus, aware of their reasonings, answered and said to them, “Why are you reasoning in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But, …
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Luke 4:17 – The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; One of the great blessings of the Year of Jubilee was the blessing it brought to the poor. Every fifty years all debts were canceled and the family inheritance was restored. Think …
Mk.6:39-41 – And He ordered them all to recline by groups on the green grass. They reclined in groups of hundreds and fifties. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He gave them to the disciples again and …
Ps.23:5 – You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;You have anointed my head with oil;My cup overflows. I lived as a Christian without knowing my need for His continual anointing on my life for many years. Somehow I had gravitated to the place that Christianity was somehow like common math, …
1 John 3:2 – Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. I was recently reading Jesus prayer in John 17 and was struck by …
Rev.21:9 – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the …
Isa.25:6 – Now the LORD of armies will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; a banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow and refined, aged wine. So today we continue our gospel feast, a banquet that has no comparisons in this life. I remember one of our first Christmas’s together …
2 Cor.8:9 – For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. The birth of Christ gives us a glimpse to the depths of God’s plan of redemption. All of us were born …
Lk.1:46-49 – And Mary sang this song: “My soul is ecstatic, overflowing with praises to God! My spirit bursts with joy over my life-giving God! For he set his tender gaze upon me, his lowly servant girl. And from here on, everyone will know that I have been favored and blessed. The Mighty One has …
Rev.19:7 – Let’s rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has prepared herself. Heaven is a place of unparalleled joy. Nothing else comes anywhere close. The reason nothing comes close is because it is a totally different kind of joy. This …
