Our fifth question: Who is going with you on the journey you are on? Who goes with you? Ruth 1, verse 16: But Ruth said, «Entreat me not to leave you or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I [...]

We’re continuing our lesson on wisdom in our devotion for this week as we think of how to make our lives bear practical fruits. We’ve talked about the dimensions of wisdom, and today we’re going to look at where to find wisdom. Where do we go [...]

The story of Christmas touches so many aspects of our lives. It touches our genealogies, it touches our parentage, it touches our birthplace, it touches our culture, it touches so many parts of our lives. Today we’re looking at the birthplace of [...]

Psalm 92, verse 13: Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. A fruitful person must not only be planted by the rivers of water, but the fruitful person must also be planted in the house of the Lord. So, [...]

We are talking about wisdom and focusing on Proverbs chapter 8. Today we read verses 14 to 16, and it says: «Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding; I have strength. By me, kings rule, and rulers decree justice. By me, princes rule, [...]

Question: Where are you going? You have a sense of vision, but where are you going? Genesis chapter 16, verse 8: «And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?» And she said, «I’m fleeing from the presence of my [...]

Exodus 3:13 Then Moses said to God, «Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you, ' and they say to me, 'What is his name? ' what shall I say to them?» That seems [...]

We’ve asked ourselves some important questions this week, beginning from «Who are you?» to the question we are asking now: «Are you bearing good fruit, or are you bearing fruit at all?» Yesterday, we talked about whether you know what you’re sowing. [...]

Welcome to a brand new year! We are so excited that the Lord guided each one of us and brought us into this great year. So, we go to our concluding reading from Joshua chapter 3, verses 1-17. Then the priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the [...]

We’re still looking at Psalm 8, and this is verse number six: «You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.» This is the grand purpose assigned for the creation of man. When you read the [...]

We’re still in our Christmas reflections, and we are looking at Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus Christ: Matthew 2:4 — 5. When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was [...]

We’re continuing our teaching on wisdom. We’ve talked about what wisdom is, and we’ve talked about where to find wisdom. So how do you know whether what you’ve found is wisdom or not? What does wisdom say? Proverbs 8:6 and 7 tell us, «Listen, for I [...]

We’re still looking at Psalm 9, and we’re examining this Psalm of David that exalts us to worship God in the midst of our attacks and the enemy pursuing us. We look at verses 4 and 5, and it says, «You have maintained my right and my cause; you sat [...]

Matthew chapter 6:33 states, «But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.» However, we must know how to place first things first. What should be the most important thing that we seek for this [...]

Today I’m talking about the diligent person, and we’re looking at Proverbs chapter 21, verse 5: «The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty lead surely to poverty.» So, what does it mean to be diligent? [...]

This week, we are looking at the topic of choices, and we have said that life is a choice. We’ve said that Jesus or God holds the key, and we’ve talked about the fact that there is a way we must not enter into, which is the broad way. Today, we are [...]

We’re still looking at the names of God, the names by which we identify God and by which God identifies Himself with us. Today, we’re looking at a peculiar name of God, El Gibbor, and the account is in Deuteronomy chapter 10, verse 17: «For the Lord [...]

We’re back to Psalm 9, and we’re reading verses 15 and 16: The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is caught. The Lord is known by the judgment He executes; the wicked is snared in the work of [...]

We’re still looking at the names of God, and we’ve examined a few of them. Today, we look at another name that is important, especially in reference to our salvation, and it is Jehovah Tzidkenu. Jehovah Tzidkenu. Jeremiah chapter 23, verse six: «In [...]

Today we look at one of the frequently used names of God in the Old Testament. It’s used so many times by different people in the Old Testament and in the nation of Israel. They use it in the context of their prayer when they were praying to God. [...]

Today we look at the name of the Lord, Jehovah Shammah. Jehovah Shammah. Ezekiel chapter 48, verse 35, reads, «All the way around shall be 18,000 cubits, and the name of the city from that day shall be, 'The Lord is there.'» Our passage [...]

Today we continue our teachings on the names of God. Last week, we looked at the names of God related to His name or title as El, and today we’re looking at another set of combinations of words related to God using His proper name. God gave His name [...]

This is our final installment in our teaching on the names of God. We’ve done it over two weeks. We started with the names of Lord that begin with «L,» and now we have dealt with the names of God that start with «Jehovah.» We’ve talked about several [...]

We’re still looking at the names of God, and we’re examining how God reveals Himself to us at various times and how we discover Him in different situations. We look at Exodus chapter 15, verse 26: «If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your [...]

As we learn more about the names of God, we come to understand what to expect from Him and who He is to us, because the names of the Lord reveal His nature and what He does. Today, we’re looking at another of those names: Jehovah Nissi. The text is [...]

We’re bringing our study of the names of God for this week to a conclusion. Next week, I’ll start the second part of our devotion on the names of God, but today we’re rounding up the names that have «El» to begin with. Tomorrow, we start names that [...]

Hebrews 12, verses 12 and 13: Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but rather be healed. This is the word of encouragement to us; we [...]

I hope you had a good Christmas celebration yesterday with your friends and loved ones, and I hope that the joy of Christ will be with you for the rest of your life, throughout the year, and into the coming year. We conclude our Christmas story with [...]

Pretty soon we’ll be welcoming a brand new year, so we are preparing our hearts for that. We’re looking at how the children of Israel prepared to cross over into the promised land in Joshua chapter 3. We now look at verses 5 and 6, and Joshua said [...]

Well, we’ve had a great week looking at Paul’s instructions to us in 1 Timothy chapter 2, and we are focused on the aspects that relate to prayer. He starts by telling us to pray for all men and to pray for civil authority. Then he tells us who [...]

We’ve been talking about prayer from 1 Timothy chapter 2, and Paul’s instruction to the church tells them what to pray for, whom to pray for, and how we should pray to one God as Jesus, the mediator. Now he talks about the attitude of prayer in [...]

We’re still learning about prayer from First Timothy Chapter 2. Paul the Apostle is writing to Timothy, who was the pastor of the Church of Ephesus, and he tells him how to conduct the church. There are several instructions he gives him, and we are [...]

We’re in 1 Timothy Chapter 2, and we are learning about prayer as Paul leads us through the things we should pray for and why we should be praying. Now we’re in verses five and six: «For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man [...]

1 Timothy 2:3 and 4: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. So, if you remember in verse one, Paul says we should pray for all men. Verse two [...]

We are in the New Testament, in First Timothy Chapter 2, and we’re talking about prayer. So let’s hear the reading: «Therefore I exhort, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. This week, we’re going to the New Testament, and we’ll be looking at 1 Timothy Chapter 2. We’ll be focusing on prayer; the whole week will teach on prayer because that is what 1 Timothy Chapter 2 focuses on. We will do a [...]

Welcome to a new week. We start a new study from the book of Exodus, Exodus 3:1. But Moses said to God, «Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?» Moses had a very supernatural encounter with [...]

This week we are looking at Psalm 8, the eighth psalm, and we’re going to work through it from today until the end of the week. We start with verse number one, Psalm 8, verse 1: «O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth! You [...]

Yesterday we talked about the diligent person. Today, we’re looking at the opposite of the diligent person: the person that the Book of Proverbs normally calls the lazy person. The lazy person is described in Proverbs Chapter 26, verses 15 and 16: [...]

Psalm 92:15 declares that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him. The person who is planted in the house of the Lord becomes fruitful, and because they are fruitful, they have a testimony. A testimony is an [...]

First, John 1: 7: «But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.» There are questions we ask ourselves all the time: What does God want me to [...]

We’re getting there, and pretty soon we’ll hit the last day of the year. Then we’ll have our crossover event in the evening, and we will have a New Year. I wish you God’s blessing in all that you do as you encounter the coming year. We are looking [...]

1 John 1:6: If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. The early Christians had similar problems to those we do; they faced a problem called nominalism. Nominalism is when people accept [...]

Well, we spent the week talking about wisdom, and we’ve looked at it from different points of view. We are concluding this week’s teaching on wisdom, but as I said, it’s a two- week teaching, so I’ll look at wisdom again next week. However, we are [...]

So we’ve been looking at Psalm 9 throughout this week, and we’re closing with the last two verses of Psalm 9. I trust it’s been an interesting study for you as we see how David handles an attack that is coming to him and depends on God’s mercy to [...]

We are in the New Year, and we need to walk in the paths that God has made for us, so it’s important for us to be led by the Lord. Exodus 13, verse 21 states, «And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night [...]

We go back to our study of the Psalms, and we are in Psalm 9. We looked at the first two verses yesterday; today we look at the third verse, and it says, «When my enemies turn back, they shall fall and perish at Your presence.» In verses 1 and 2, [...]

Well, welcome to our study as we continue our lessons around Christmas. Next week, as you know, is our Christmas week. From today to Sunday, I’ll be focusing my teaching on Joseph, Jesus’s foster father, the man that God entrusted His Son to. We [...]

Today we’re going to look at the generation of Jesus Christ, his genealogy. One of the things I do as a pastor is study the Bible, and I must study every part of it. I study genealogies, I study the geography of the Bible, I study history in the [...]

Welcome to a brand new week, and today we start a new study from the book of First John. The book of First John is very important to the New Testament because it was written at a time when a lot of people had come to the Christian faith. After [...]