Psalm 69:9 (NIV) “for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.” The zeal of our LORD and Savior towards His Father’s temple was prophesied by David more than 600 years prior to His arrival on the temple court! . . Temple cleansing was the first public…
Haggai 1:3-4, 25 (NIV) 3 Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” 25 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. This was a prophetic word to the exiles who came back to their homeland…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: The icy roads and the chilling weather conditions once again might be forcing us to stay behind the closed doors, but the Holy Spirit fire within us cannot be put out by anything around us since it is a fire of God. As children of God we are so…
Dear Brothers and Sisters: The icy weather is once again holding us captive- reminds me of the letter that Paul wrote to Timothy ( 2 Timothy 2:9)—-“ but God’s word is not chained”–. His word that is given in our hands and that we received in our hearts is not chained. As Jeremiah the prophet…
2 Timothy 2:9 (KJV 1900) 9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: The comparison that the apostle makes there between his own chains and imprisonment and the freedom that he envisages for the word of God is most impressive….