The song, The Lord’s Prayer, has been on my heart for several weeks. I sang it at our morning church service two weeks ago and again at the Englewood Home on Union road for those in the Bible study. God has kept it on my heart and I believe I am to speak on it today. I copied several verses from Matthew 6 (from the NKJV) concerning prayer and felt they all went together. I grew up in a church…..
It is one thing to say “Fret not,” but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so easy to talk about ”resting in the Lord,” and “waiting patiently for Him,” until the rest is upset – until we live, as so many are doing, in tumult and anguish, is it possible then to rest in the Lord? If this “don’t” does not work there, it will work nowhere. …..
In the late 90’s, Beth Moore and friends put out a book they called, Voices of the faithful. It’s a daily devotional that I used, along with another in my quiet time for years. Then it sat for several more years while I went on to other things. For the past 5-6 months I have been back into it. It has several short incidents from missionaries around the world, speaking about things they have had happen and how they were…..
This year I thought about a message I heard a very long time ago that contained the story of some of the women that traveled with Jesus. There really are several women prominent in scriptures, both in the OT and the NT. Then I was reading about Jesus with Mary and Martha, and how each one responded to Him. That made me think about how the Bible, and therefore God Himself, wants women treated. One of the ways God told…..
This is a wonderful time of year for believers in God. The 21st of this month is so very special for both Jew and Christian because Passover and Easter are really on the same day. Passover begins at sundown the 20th which is when the 21st starts the Jewish calendar. I wondered how often it occurs like this and was told: Not often, but it does this year. The thing that is really fascinating about this year is that the…..
I often have to heed my own advice, that of which I said when I was preparing or giving a SS lesson, or when I have given a devotion at a hospital or nursing home or jail, I always say the same thing about statistics, religion, and others areas of life. Verify, verify, verify. Be it what a preacher says, a teacher, what I read from some scholar about the Bible, or even a denomination’s agenda or actions, is it…..
God-given tasks can be completed with confidence and resolve because God has conquered all obstacles in His work. Believe and obey! Background Passages: Nehemiah 3:1-6:19 Lesson Passage: Nehemiah 6:1-19 Verses taken from NKJV unless noted. Before I even began studying for this lesson I thought about much of the adversity, the hard times, so many difficulties my family and my friends have been through over the years. Even today many of us are facing problems and heartaches. A cousin…..
GOD restores His repentant people to do work that honors Him. Background Passage: Nehemiah 1:1-2:20 Lesson Passage: Nehemiah 2:1-8, 17-18 When was the last time you felt God had inspired you to do something? How did you feel, excited or afraid? Did you act on it right away or did you put it off for a while? Did you even know it was from God? The average pastor in an American denominational church lasts about five years in…..
While wondering about what I should say today, the song Somebody Touched the Lord came to mind. It’s been several years since the group Perfect Heart performed it but I found the words. When I first heard it I was touched myself. It goes like this. My soul was sick and dying bound in sin and shame, Somebody called upon the Lord until sweet redemption came. Somebody held me up to God, when I was feeling down, And I’m so…..
Welcome. My name is Bob Withrow, author of A Strange Journey: Listening To God’s Messengers. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about A Strange Journey, as well as adding a weekly Bible lesson or study. This is a great place for you to get to…..
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