ScriptureLuke 12:49-51"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until is is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No I tell you, but...

ScriptureLuke 11:27-28"As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you!" He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." ObservationAs Jesus was teaching on...

ScriptureLuke 10:39-42"She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's fee listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work...

ScriptureLuke 7:3-7"The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, because he loves our nation and has...

Scripture Luke 6:47-48 "As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck...

ScriptureDaniel 10:12"Then he continued, "Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard and I have come in response to them" ObservationGod responds to a...

ScriptureLuke 4:24-26"Truly I tell you," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet...

ScriptureDaniel 5:17"Then Daniel answered the king, "you may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means." ObservationDaniel had not had an easy path in life....

Scripture Ezekiel 42:14,20 "Once the priests enter the holy precincts, they are not to go into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they go near the places that are for...

ScripturePsalm 128:1,3"Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him....your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table." ObservationWalking in obedience to God doesn't just...

ScripturePsalm 145:13-14"The Lord is trustworthy in all He promises and faithful in all He does. The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down." ObservationThough I am not always faithful or trustworthy, God is! Though I fall, His footing is...

ScriptureRevelation 19:9-10"Then the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the lamb!" and he added, "These are the true words of God"At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Don't do that! I am...

Scripture'The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. ' Ezekiel 37:1 ObservationThe hand of God was on Ezekiel, and Ezekiel followed where God was leading him. The...

ScriptureLamentations 3:19-22"I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I will remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for...

ScriptureObadiah 1:3-4"The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, 'who can bring me down to the ground?' Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the...

ScriptureJeremiah 42:3,6"Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go, and what we should do.""Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the Lord our God." ObservationThe children of Israel wanted "Jeremiah's God' to speak to them and...

ScriptureRevelation 12:11"They triumphed over him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony; They did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death" ObservationMichael and his angels waged war in heaven against satan, and were victorious....

Scripture Ezekiel 29:19-20 "Therefor this is what the sovereign Lord says: I am going to give Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, and he will carry off its wealth. He will loot and plunder the land as pay for his army. I have given him Egypt as a reward for his...