ScripturePsalm 124:8"Our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth." ObservationThe Lord is my help, because I need help. My help is not from this world, or from any earthly source. My help is in the Almighty God--the God who created all...

Scripture 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our...

Scripture2 Corinthians 1:9"Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead." ObservationGod desires me to rely on Him. At times in life He will allow me to face...

Scripture1 Corinthians 11:20-22"So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's supper you eat. For when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. As a result, one person remains hungry and another gets drunk. Don't you have homes to...

Scripture1 Corinthians 7:32-34a"I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs-how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world-how he can please his wife-and his interests are...

Scripture1 Corinthians 4:20, 6:19-204:20 - "For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power"6:19-20 - "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own, you were bought at...

Scripture1 Corinthians 3:16-17"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple, and that God's Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that...

Scripture Galatians 2:9-10 "James, Cephas, and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. All they asked was...

ScriptureMark 15:43-44"Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him...

ScriptureMark 13:3-4"As Jesus was sitting on the mount of olives, opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?" ObservationThe...

ScriptureMark 11:28,32"By what authority are you doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave you authority to do this?"They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet. ObservationThe Jewish leaders didn't know what to do with Jesus. He...

ScriptureMark 10:25-27(Jesus said...) "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and...

ScriptureMark 4:14"The farmer sows the word." ObservationThis chapter in Mark compares the word of God to a seed, and then repeatedly reminds us that seed is meant to be sown--not merely stored. Seed that is never sown, will never grow. ApplicationGod has...

Scripture Mark 1:30-31 "Simon's mother in law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them."  Observation We read this passage and focus on the...

ScriptureActs 28:26-27"Go to this people and say, "You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving." For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes....

ScriptureActs 26:27-29"King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do." Then Agrippa said to Paul, "Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?" Paul replied, "Short time or long--I pray to God that not only you but all who...

ScriptureActs 15:2,4"This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.""When they came to Jerusalem,...

ScriptureActs 13:15,45"After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying "Brothers, if you have a word of exhortation for the people, please speak.""When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with...