Jn.15:18,19 – If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. …
Lk.3:3,4 – John went preaching and baptizing throughout the Jordan Valley. He persuaded people to turn away from their sins and turn to God for the freedom of forgiveness. This was to fulfill what was written in the book of the prophet Isaiah: “Listen! You will hear a thunderous voice in the lonely wilderness telling …
2 Cor.3:17 – Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. There is an incredible, new found freedom to those who begin to embrace the work of the Spirit in their lives. This freedom encompasses various aspects of their lives including freedom from the bondage of …
Jn.7:37 – Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. What do you like about Thanksgiving? Could it be the time off to reflect, family gatherings, all the special food and fixings, or maybe just …
Luke 23:33 – The place which is called Calvary. God has revealed His love to us in the strangest of ways. Who would have thought that the Lord would allow His only Son to suffer the horrible death of a Roman crucifixion? It was at man’s darkest hour that the light of God’s love broke …
Lk.8:1-3 – Soon afterward, Jesus began a ministry tour throughout the country, visiting cities and villages to announce the wonderful news of God’s kingdom realm. His twelve disciples traveled with him and also a number of women who had been healed of many illnesses under his ministry and set free from demonic power. Jesus had …
Gal.3:26-28- For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. The …
MERRY FRIDAY BY PARRIS- “When all you can see is dark” “And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?” Luke 13:11 Some say Luke’s allusions to the story of the healing of the “daughter of Abraham” …
MERRY FRIDAY BY PARRIS- “Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?” (Job 6:26) The Lord has really been speaking to me about what kind of voice we are to this world? All through this year and beyond I truly want to stay a mouthpiece or …
Eph.1:14 – Amp. – That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it—to the praise of His glory. Nothing like some good home cooking. Last week there was an impromptu Mary’s …
