Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: The earth also shall disclose her blood, And shall no more cover her slain. Sin seems to go unpunished. Wickedness happens every day. Society is even disturbed due to all the evil yet God […]

Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: The night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. What seems like the night of pleasure ends up being horrible. Sin costs. Sin costs terribly. In the middle of the pleasures of sin, there is the fear of being found out. There is the […]

Isaiah 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; Yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: For when thy judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. We should hunger and thirst after righteousness. We should be in love with the Lord Jesus. […]

Isaiah 26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: For in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: God has the strength. He makes the difference. He is our Creator. He is our strength. He is our salvation. We do not have the strength in ourselves. We can have temporary victory but not eternal, everlasting, or […]

Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; And the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: For the LORD hath spoken it. Jesus Christ won the victory over death. The last enemy has already been […]

Isaiah 25:1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; For thou hast done wonderful things; Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. God has done great and beautiful things. His Word is true. He saved us. He has blessed us with life and abundant life. He […]

Nehemiah 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. Nehemiah knows his enemies are everywhere. He is fully expecting an attack so what does he do. Nehemiah prays and sets a watch. He does what he should do while asking God to […]

Nehemiah 4:2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? The enemies of God’s people […]

Nehemiah 2:18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work. Nehemiah knew that it wasn’t him or his wisdom […]

Nehemiah 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. I have a pastor friend that calls this a flare prayer. It is a prayer you send up real quick when you do not have much time. You know you need God. There […]

Nehemiah 1:11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the […]

Ezra 9:13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; God’s people realized that God had punished them as a nation much less than they […]

Ezra 8:34 By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time. God gives instruction to the people that the offerings will be handled with preciseness and exactness. Everything was to be counted and weighed. Make sure it is what it appears to be. Write it all down. […]

Ezra 8:29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD. God wanted His offerings taken care of well. He did not allow things to be handled haphazardly. […]

Ezra 7:23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? The king wanted God’s blessings and not God’s anger. He wanted to see the temple built for […]

Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. Ezra states a beautiful truth. God works and answers prayer. When they needed help, they could have asked the king. Instead of asking the king they decided to ask God. God heard their prayer. He answered them. Do […]

John 9:38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. What a beautiful testimony this man gives. He heard the truth. He believed the truth. Then he worshipped the Lord Jesus. You can’t truly worship until you have believed. Have you believed? If you have believed are you worshipping? How many say they […]

John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. When Jesus told His people the truth, they abandoned Him. They walked with Him no more. They were no longer His disciples. How do you handle the truth? Do you understand that God is to be worshipped even […]

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Jesus is the light of the world. He came into the world, but the world didn’t want Him. They preferred their sin. They preferred the darkness. Jesus came to […]

Luke 23:47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. The hardened Roman soldier had watched Jesus die. He had seen the sun go dark. He had felt the earthquake. He had heard how Jesus dealt with His accusers. He had seen how Jesus responded […]

Luke 22:6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. Judas was looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus. He didn’t want to make it obvious what he was doing. He would betray Him when the crowds weren’t there. He was wrong. He was ashamed, but […]

Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. God loves sinners. He wants all saved. When someone gets saved, there is great joy in heaven. God loves it when a sinner repents. Seeing people get saved should cause us great […]

Luke 14:11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. God’s ways are not our ways. We think that we need to look out for number one, ourselves. We believe our own press releases. We write them to make ourselves look better than we really are. We look […]

Luke 14:33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. Jesus wants to be first. Everything of value has to be put aside. You can’t let anything be there to steal your affection. Make a decision. It is either Jesus or something else. That […]

Luke 8:39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him. 40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were […]

Luke 7:43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. Jesus was teaching that the one forgiven the most loves the most. What a relief to know that He forgives us. How it motivates us to love Him more. You have […]

Luke 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. In one verse we have all three distinct persons of the Godhead. The Holy Ghost is descending. Jesus has just […]

Mark 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. Sometimes our hearts are so hard that they surprise us. We think we are listening. We believe we are […]

Job 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, are mighty in power? This is a question that many people ask. Why do those that do not love God seem to deal with fewer problems? Why do God haters succeed while those that love God do not? Why is it that my family is […]

Mark 13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. Jesus is coming soon. Satan wants to destroy the work of God. We are commanded to watch, to stay awake, to stay alert, to be on the lookout. We, easily, get complacent about our spiritual walk. We just get into robot or […]

Mark 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Jesus said that there were people following Him that were insincere. They said they loved Him, but they didn’t really. Their heart […]

Mark 1:10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: 11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. I call your attention to the three distinct people that are […]

Matthew 28:10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me. Before Jesus died He warned them that He was going to die. He told them of His suffering. He told them He would be killed. He also told them that […]

Matthew 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. The Bible teaches that Jesus will one day return to the earth. Just as He came once before He is coming again. He will come in power to set up His kingdom. We are to believe that He is coming. We […]

Matthew 18:33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? The story tells about a man forgiven who refuses to forgive others. The forgiver asks the question, why are you not showing the same compassion to the other as I showed to you. I forgave you […]

Matthew 15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. The religious people were taking each commandment and interpreting it in such a way that it meant nothing at all. They would take God’s Words and manipulate […]

Matthew 12:21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. God sent Jesus into the world. He is the Messiah, the Anointed One, from the Old Testament. The Jews seemed to have no concept that non-Jewish people would ever believe but Jesus promised that they would. The Jews had been responsible for the good news. […]

Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. You put your money where your heart ought to be. If you invest in something, you will learn to love it. Give and love. You do not love the work of God and maybe wonder why. Could it be that you have […]

Malachi 3:14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: And what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, And that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? What a sad commentary we find here. God’s people claimed that serving God wasn’t profitable for them. They obeyed God but saw […]

Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, Which is before Jerusalem on the east, And the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, And there shall be a very great valley; And half of the mountain shall remove […]

Habakkuk 2:15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,That puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, That thou mayest look on their nakedness! The prophet warned against people that use alcohol to get others drunk. They drugged them to take advantage of them. They wanted to abuse them so made them […]