God is calling us to love Jesus … (The Life Of Peter).

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God is calling us to love Jesus. In His Word, He tells us about people who learned to love Jesus. Little by little, they learned to live the Jesus life - less living for self and more living for Jesus. We can learn so much from the life of Peter. At the heart of his …

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Let us rejoice in all that the Lord has done for us.

Revelation 14:1-15:8 – With ‘patient endurance’, we are to ‘obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus’ (12), This will not be easy. Satan will do all that he can to defeat us. How can we be ‘victorious’ over him? We must rejoice in all that God has done for His people, Israel. He delivered […]

Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.

Leviticus 14:33-15:33 – You can get ‘dry rot’ in people – as well as houses (14:34; Hebrews 12:15)! Sin is like ‘a wasting disease’ (Psalm 106:13-15). It will only get worse – unless something is done about it! Sin spreads. and spreads, and… Can anything be done about this sad situation? Look into yourself, and […]

Lord, You are the faithful God.

Exodus 34:1-35 Lord, You are the faithful God. You give us Your promises. You keep Your promises. You never go back on Your Word. You always stand by the Word that You have spoken. Your promises come to us from the past. They lead us on into Your future. What a wonderful future You are […]

We are to feed on God’s Word – the difficult parts as well as those passages that make us feel good.

Revelation 10:1-11:19 – ‘Take the little scroll and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey’ (10:9). We are to feed on God’s Word – the difficult parts as well as those passages which make us feel good. God’s Word speaks about judgment as […]

Christ invites us to come and look at things through His eyes.

Revelation 6:1-7:17 – Christ invites us to ‘come’ (6:1,3,5,7) – and look at things through His eyes. With Him, we look at earth. With Him, we look at heaven. Troubled world, tremendous worship – These are the things we see when we look through the eyes of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our world is deeply […]

Open your heart to the Lord, and remember where your prayer really come from: “The Lord opened my heart.”

Revelation 3:1-22 – There are some doors which the Lord must open – ‘I have placed before you an open door that no-one can shut’ (8). There is a door which we must open – ‘Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone opens the door, I will come in…’ (20). […]

Help us, Lord, to remember that You are stronger than Satan.

Praying Through God’s Word John 10:1-42 Living for You, Lord, is not easy. Satan sees to that! Help us, Lord, when we’re sorely tempted to turn from You, to remember that You are stronger than Satan: “Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).

Lord, what are we to do when we’re going through a hard time?

Exodus 1:1-2:10 Lord, what are we to do when we’re going through a hard time? Hard times can be the breaking of us, or the making of us. We can blame You, or we can trust You. Help us to trust You – to know that You are near, even when it feels like You […]

Lord, we are called to fear You – and to love You.

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 Lord, we are called to fear You – and to love You. We tend to think that fear and love are opposites. You teach us something else, something very different. Fear and love belong together. You are the holy God, the God who cannot look upon our sin (Habakkuk 1:13). We fear You. […]

A call to prayer and a promise of blessing

2 Chronicles 7:1-22 – In verse 14, there is a call to prayer and a promise of blessing: ‘If My people who are called by My Name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their […]

Our real strength comes from the Lord.

Habakkuk 1:1-3:19; Titus 2:1-15; Proverbs 26:3-12 “The Sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go on the heights” – These are the last words of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:19). “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches […]

God shows us our sin so that we might seek His salvation.

2 Kings 21:1-22:20; Acts 28:17-31; Proverbs 16:28-17:4 The rediscovery of the Book of the Law (2 Kings 22) revealed the standard from which Israel had fallen, the standard to which Israel was called. The apostolic preaching had the same twofold effect, speaking of both sin (Acts 28:26-27) and salvation (Acts 26:28). “Better a dry crust […]

The love of God, the salvation of God and the glory of God

Lamentations 1:1-2:6; Titus 3:1-15; Psalm 119:113-120 “The Lord is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command” (Lamentations 1:18). “At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another” (Titus 3:3). This is the story of […]

Mark 11-13; Exodus 26:1-27:19; Proverbs 4:10-19

Mark 11:1-33 Here we learn of the authority of Christ. Calling the ‘colt’ into His service, He says, with authority, ‘The Lord has need of it’ (3). With authority, He speaks to the fig tree (14) – a ‘visual aid’ of His teaching: ‘Every branch of Mine that bears no fruit, He takes away’ (John […]

Not my will but Thine, Lord!

Genesis 24:1-21 The servant was sent on a mission. He was ‘to get a wife for…Isaac’ (4). When Christ entered Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1-11), He was on a mission. He had come for His Bride, the Church (Ephesians 5:25; Revelation 21:2-3). The servant was not to ‘get a wife…from…the Canaanites’ (3). The Church is to be […]

Mark 2:13-3:35; Proverbs 4:1-9; Exodus 15:22-20:20

Mark 2:13-3:12 Jesus changes people. Levi became Matthew (14). He became ‘a new creation’ (2 Corinthians 5:17). The change of name marked his new birth (John 3:6). To be changed by Jesus you must recognize yourself as a sinner (17). There is a world of difference between legal obedience – ‘old wine’ – and Gospel […]

One Year Bible: Days 182-212

Day 182 2 Kings 3:1-4:37; Acts 21:1-26; Psalm 78:56-72 “Then the Lord awoke from sleep” (Psalm 78:65). When the Lord awakes from sleep, there is awakening. In 2 Kings 4:32-35, we see an example of such awakening – resurrection from the dead. How does such awakening come? It comes when the Lord’s people pray earnestly, with […]

To those who do His will, praising Him and trusting Him, God will give much blessing – ‘an overflowing blessing.’

Genesis 24:22-49 The detailed account of Isaac’s marriage highlights the guidance of God. He directs the life of His people. This is our testimony – ‘the Lord…has led me on the right road’ (48). The great lessons of this story are stated in verse 27 – (a) the ‘steadfast love’ of the Lord; (b) the […]

Difficult times can be the making of God’s people!

Exodus 1:1-2:10 Things were difficult for Israel yet ‘the more they were oppressed the more they multiplied’ (12). Difficult times can be the making of God’s people! Pharaoh (and Satan!) is murderously anxious about the growth of God’s people (15-16; John 10:10). God is about to move in saving power – His ‘midwives’ are preparing […]

Exodus 39:1-40:38; Mark 9:2-32; Psalm 26:1-12

“The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle” (Exodus 40:34-35). There is, however, an even greater demonstration of God’s glory – in Christ. Concerning Christ, God says, “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to Him!” (Mark 9:7). The glory of God, revealed through the ministries of Moses and Elijah (the law and the […]

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God is calling us to love Jesus … (The Life Of Peter).