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Genesis 28:20 HCSB Then Jacob made a vow: “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, if He provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,           God tells Jacob where to go and Jacob asks only for the necessities. He could have asked for more; a donkey to ride, riches to impress people, fancy gifts to take along; but he doesn’t; he wants food and clothes and God for his journey.…

1 Timothy 6:7-9 BSB For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.   Being discontented about all the things we want, when we have what we need, leads us to bad places. Many people…

Matthew 6:11 NIV Give us today our daily bread.   Jesus doesn’t teach us to pray “give us this day all our wants” he uses “daily bread”. He expects us to ask for necessitates not luxury. He also wants us to ask for ways to help others; be it spreading the Word, feeding the sheep, clothing the poor, teaching the young, praying for those who need it or just holding the hand of someone who needs the companionship. Christianity is…

Isaiah 9:6 NIV For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.          Christ is the Prince of Peace. You cannot have peace and fear simultaneously. We have to chose one or the other. Life and spirituality are after all, a series of choices. We chose to live well or not. We chose…

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 BSB Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!   God sent Jesus to die for us; we have victory in Him. We have salvation and eternal life. What have we to fear? Think of all the things Paul went through to be an…

Matthew 14:27-28 BSB But Jesus spoke up at once: “Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.” “Lord, if it is You,” Peter replied, “command me to come to You on the water.”   Jesus tells them not to fear and then Peter basically says “prove it!” Do we do that? Well let’s look at that story. Jesus does what Peter asks and allows him to walk to Him on the water. Peter loses faith part way there and…

Isaiah 40:9 ESV Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”   Even in the prophesies of Christ, we are told to no longer fear, so what keeps us afraid? We have the Good News, but we worry. We have salvation, but we are afraid. We have eternal life…

Luke 2:10 KJV And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ‘Fear not’ or ‘don’t be afraid’ are repeated in the scriptures more than 300 times; but perhaps the best instances occur with the birth of Jesus. It applies not just to Mary, or Joseph or the shepherds but to everyone in the world forever. The hope has come, the savior of mankind has…

Conversational Dinner They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. – Acts 2:42 We often have an image of Jesus breaking bread in the manner of the last supper. When Jesus pronounces, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” (1 Corinthians 11:24), we tend to overlook the rest of the dinner. Can you just imagine the conversations around the table that were happening following Jesus…

Where is your Trust? Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock. – Isaiah 26:4 Humans are fickle. We build our houses in places we know aren’t safe. We do it because we’re enticed by the beauty of the land, only to regret our decision when a natural disaster hits. We do the same with our faith. Isaiah tells us to “Trust in the Lord always…”, but we know that this implicit trust is hard…