Tag: faith

TODAY'S SPECIAL: Read Job 2:1-13 Job and his friends - Artist unknown TO CHEW ON: "When Job’s three friends Eliphaz... Bildad... and Zophar... heard about all the troubles that had come upon him they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Exodus 1:22-2:10 TO CHEW ON: “...She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. ‘This is one of the Hebrew babies,’ she said.” Exodus 2:5,6 Joseph and his brothers eventually died. Th...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Numbers 14:1-12, 20-23 TO CHEW ON: "Not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it." Numbers 14:23When the twelve spies came back from Canaan, only two thought they could conquer the people and m...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ezekiel 34:11-16 TO CHEW ON: I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, ...” Ezekiel 34:15,16 If you were compared to an animal, you would ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Peter 3:3-13 TO CHEW ON: "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." 2 Peter 3:8 How long is it from one Christmas to the next? From this summer holiday to next summer holiday? From your 10th...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Exodus 14:1-14 TO CHEW ON: "Moses answered the people, 'Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.' ” Exodus 14:13,14 After...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Habakkuk 1:1-11 TO CHEW ON: "How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you do not save?" Habakkuk 1:2 Have you ever wondered whether it does any good to pray? That seems to be what the prophet Habakkuk was asking at the beginni...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ephesians 6:10-18TO CHEW ON: "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes." Ephesians 6:11 Why would anyone choose to wear a hot bullet-proof vest, a stiff camouflage uniform, a heavy helmet, weighty steel-toed boots, an uncomfortable gas...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: I Samuel 1:20-29 TO CHEW ON: “I prayed for this child and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.” 1 Samuel 1:27,28Have you ever made a promise that later you wished you didn’t have to keep? Pe...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 27:27-44 TO CHEW ON: "Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.” (Acts 27:34) Have you ever been seriously scared or nervous? Perhaps it was the time your team had to play the championship game, or you had t...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Hebrews 11:1-12TO CHEW ON: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1Think about some of the ways you show faith every day.If you jump from the third step, you have faith that you will land, not on the ceiling or against the wa...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Ruth 3:1-18 TO CHEW ON: “'I will do whatever you say,' Ruth answered." Ruth 3:5 Boaz’s kindness to Ruth got Naomi thinking. Maybe Boaz would be willing to do even more for them. Naomi remembered that Boaz was a relative. He had the right to buy back the land she and her husband had ...