Rom.8:29 – For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; I have been chewing on this verse for several weeks now, especially the part where He says, “For those whom He foreknew”. The Lord is quite …
Matt.7:7,8 – Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. If you were asked, “Why did Jesus become a man?”, what …
Is. 26:3 You keep him in perfect peacewhose mind is stayed on you,because he trusts in you. What an incredible promise, perfect peace. In the original it actually says shalom shalom. This is God’s promise of peace that transcends our whole being. It is an internal peace, peace with God that comes through forgiveness of …
Rev.1:4 – Grace to you and peace from Him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before His throne, The book of Revelation is a glimpse into eternity. Paul called it looking through a glass darkly. When we glimpse into the eternal things of God …
Rev.1:4 – Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, Timelessness, characteristic of God is almost impossible for us to comprehend. The only shot we have is by glimpses of eternity given to us by God. God inhabits eternity; in other words He lives outside of …
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 …
Jn.17:22,23 – And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You …
John17:1 – Jesus spoke these things; and raising His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You, I wonder what all Jesus understood that night He prayed in Gethsemane? How much of His eternal communion with His Father was He aware of? How …
John 15:9 – Amp. – I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue in His love with Me]. This verse sums up the Lord’s teaching on the Holy Spirit on that historic last night Jesus spent with His disciples. Today I want to look at several translations …
John 6:15 – So Jesus, aware that they intended to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself, alone. I love the beautiful picture of Christ longing, even needing, to be alone with His Father in His humanity. Jesus longs to be alone in prayer when …
