Tag: God's plan

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Joel 2:28-32 TO CHEW ON: "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions." Joel 2:28 If someone asked you, “What will happen next week?” could you tell them? What if they ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 20:17-24 TO CHEW ON: "However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me – the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace." Acts 20:24 What’s important to you?- Winning the championship?- Getting...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Revelation 6: 9-17 TO CHEW ON: "For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?" Revelation 6: 17 Have you ever read an exciting book where the closer you came to the end, the more bad things happened? You looked at how few pages were left and wondered, how woul...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Judges 7:9-16 TO CHEW ON: "When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, 'Get up! The Lord has given the Midianite camp into your hands.' ” Judges 7:15 The first job God gave Gideon to do was to sma...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 1 Kings 19:19-21 TO CHEW ON: "Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah." 1 Kings 19:20 One of the jobs God gave Elijah was to find and call the person who would be the next prophet. We don’t know how Elijah knew which person to choose. God probably told him. Neither do we know...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Romans 1:1-17 TO CHEW ON: "Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle.... To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints.” (Romans 1:1, 7) Paul spent a lot of time traveling from place to place telling people about Jesus. After people decided to follow Jes...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Kings 10:18-29 TO CHEW ON: “So Jehu destroyed Baal worship in Israel. However, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit – the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.” 2 Kings 10:28,29 Jehu lost no time getting to wor...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: 2 Kings 9:1-13 TO CHEW ON: "You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel." 2 Kings 9:7One day after Ahab had died and his son Joram was king, Elisha sent one of the ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Leviticus 23:1-8 TO CHEW ON: "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.' ” Leviticus 23:2 What do you do on special days? Match the holiday with an activity that ma...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Acts 9:10-19 TO CHEW ON: "But the Lord said to Ananias, 'Go.'” Acts 9:15 Saul had a reputation. Followers of Jesus (Christians) knew him as someone who showed no mercy. Imagine Ananias’s (not the same Ananias as “Ananias and Sapphira”) surprise when God told him, in a vision, to go ...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Nehemiah 4:16-23 TO CHEW ON: "From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officials posted themselves behind all the people of Judah who were building the wall." Nehemiah 4:16 The threats against the wor...

TODAY’S SPECIAL: Exodus 24:1-18 TO CHEW ON: "Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, 'We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.' " Exodus 24:7 Have you ever seen movies where the camera zooms in on a scene and a tiny far-off thing gradually gets ...