“And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called the name of that place, ‘The LORD will provide’; as it […]
“For he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles” Galatians 2:8 The Lord is working in us. He is working through us. With as much power and authority as He worked through the apostles. The same Spirit dwells in each one of […]
“In Judah God is known” Psalm 76:1a This phrase never fails to stop me in my tracks. I’ve written on it before, but it continues to utterly captivate my heart and fill me with renewed wonder. Here, in this place, God is known. What powerful confidence is held in those words. The infinite, mysterious, majestic, […]
“Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you… When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth… He will […]
“Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle… For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.” Exodus 40:34, 38 Reading this account, […]
“For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as […]
“What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth…For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s […]
“The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.” Daniel 2:11 How remarkable it is that for those of us who are in Christ, our God dwells with us. For some, the concept of a god is hardly […]
“For the palace is forsaken, the populace city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. Then justice will […]
In Pleasant Places 