The Lord’s Prayer – Matthew 6:9-13 – Part 2
Besides the Lord’s Prayer, there are hundreds of examples of prayer in the Bible. There are many people from different periods of Biblical history, in different circumstances, who prayed different prayers with different results. There are even examples of people who prayed to false gods. The first prayer recorded in the Bible occurred in Genesis […]
Never Cease To Praise God Our Father
God doesn’t bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing. – Warren Wiersbe I am not proud to say that sometimes I do not pray as much as I wanted to. Worldly responsibilities get the best of me. And I forget that the important task I have to […]
The Lord’s Prayer – Matthew 6:5-8 – Part 1
In Matthew 6:5-8, the Lord gives the second admonishment to His disciples and, this time, regarding prayer. Earlier in the chapter, in Matthew 6:1, Jesus has already warned His followers to take heed not to do like those hypocrites when they do charitable deeds. In the previous Bible Study, we have learned that righteousness is the essence […]
Do You Pray For Strangers?
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself. – Samuel Rutherford Apostle Paul wrote the letter to the Colossians to address heresies that were growing within the church at Colossae. Paul started his letter by bringing God’s grace to the […]
How To Be Good Parents?
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit – Jerry Falwell Sr. History to Understand the Word of God Want to know the history […]
How To Know If We Are Spiritually Healthy?
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. Mahalia Jackson Do you experience a moment in your day when your energy is just drained out for no apparent reason? Thought of being tired and hopeless and just do not have the motivation to be engaged in anything? […]
Anger And Mercy Does Not Go Well Together
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain I remember when in my younger years that I broke one of our windows out of anger. The reason behind that anger, I cannot recall. Maybe it was […]
Family Worship Guarantees Love And Bonding
At 08:45, father took the old brass-bound Bible from its shelf. He opened to the reading of Jeremiah where we had left off the night before, then with sudden inspiration passed the Bible across the table to Meyer. Corrie Ten Boom – Excerpts from the Hiding Place (p.102) I grew up in a family where […]
Observation of Agur – Godliness with Contentment
We live in a material world, the world where everything is being weighed, measured, compared, and divided. People desire things like money, estate, cars and other luxuries. But things like love, friendship, respect and dignity have no longer value by itself, they are being viewed through the prism of poverty and wealth. Poverty is despised […]
Out of the Belly of Sheol I cried
Jonah was on a ship hiding himself from the Lord. He was trying to escape God’s call for him to go and to preach to the people of the city Nineveh (the greatest Assyrian city founded by Nimrod – Genesis 10:8-12). So, the Lord caused great storm in the sea. The storm was so strong […]