Putting God to the test
Christ challenges us to put God first and see what happens:
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt 6:33)
Seeking God first would result in the ‘adding’ of all the necessary things of li…
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Christ’s underlying message is one of perspective; where we put our primary focus in life:
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt 6:33)
We are exhorted to seek God’s righteousness and His kingdom in order to find i…
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A Completely Different Outlook
Christ challenges us to have a completely different outlook about our lives compared to the world around us:
“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gent…
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I Have Commanded the Ravens to Feed Thee
Not only does God feed the birds of the field, He also used them to feed His servants. Elijah was sent on a dangerous mission to Israel that would result in a three-and-a-half-year famine upon the land, yet Elijah would be preserved while all Israel were in …
The 105th Psalm is almost certainly from the pen of David, for the first 15 verses are the same as in David’s song of praise in 1 Chronicles 16:8-22. The king was full of thankfulness at the return of the ark to Jerusalem, his capital city. Yet Psalm 105 is not about the great event of that day: D…
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I have heard it said that once a believer is baptised into Christ, they are always in Christ and since one cannot be ‘un-baptised’ they can never be out of fellowship with God. Is this correct?
Baptism is a public identification with the principles of the Lord’s death and resurrection t…
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Taste and See
We should look to God to be our constant aid in time of trouble. Consider the testimony of the Psalms:
“I sought the Lord, and he heard me, And delivered me from all my fears. They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the…
1) How can we truely define who is in fellowship with God?
The apostle John outlined the basis of fellowship with God in these words:
1 John 1:3 – “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Fath…
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O ye of little faith
The problem that we face today is the same problem Israel faced in the wilderness: a lack of faith. We can have faith on an intellectual and academic level—but it is the practical level where faith is demonstrated: in actions, “For as the body without the spirit is d…
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually all aspects of life, culture and business. News reporting, both true and false, adds to the deluge of information and horror stories that choke our minds. The sheer scale of the problems are often described as “biblical” yet the Bible and its precepts…
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