THE POWER OF YOUR WORDS “Husband: How beautiful you are, my darling, how beautiful! Your eyes are like doves. Wife: You are so handsome, my love, pleasing beyond words! The soft grass is our bed” (Song of Solomon 1:15-16 NLT). I know that these phrases are very poetic, but perhaps they remind us that we should endeavor to…
LEADERS BRING ORDER “I immediately confronted the leaders and demanded, “Why has the Temple of God been neglected?” Then I called all the Levites back again and restored them to their proper duties” (Nehemiah 13:11 NLT). We need leaders in all areas of society. Things tend to divert from their original purpose, but when leaders…
OVERCOME WORRY “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you” (1 Peter 5:7 NLT). There is a very common phenomenon in the human being and that is worry. We worry when we try to control the uncontrollable. When you can’t change your son, you are affected, when you can’t change…
PICK UP YOUR CROSS “And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life” (Matthew 19:29 NLT). The only places where one can see if they have really died…
HAVE FAITH “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1 NIV). Do not fear anyone nor anything, learn to live by faith. What is faith? Faith is the confidence of what you hope for and the assurance of what you still don’t see. Perhaps you…
BE RELEVANT “They read from the Book of the Law of God and clearly explained the meaning of what was being read, helping the people understand each passage” (Nehemiah 8:8 NLT). Do you know how the enemy can rob the message you want to transmit? This happens when people don’t understand what you told them…
A LEADER MAKES DIFFICULT DECISIONS PART II “Get up, for it is your duty to tell us how to proceed in setting things straight. We are behind you, so be strong and take action” (Ezra 10:4 NLT). In continuation with the topic about being leaders that are willing to make difficult decisions, I want to…
A LEADER MAKES DIFFICULT DECISIONS PART I “Get up, for it is your duty to tell us how to proceed in setting things straight. We are behind you, so be strong and take action” (Ezra 10:4 NLT). Someone who is a leader in an areahas many privileges, but also many responsibilities. A leader is obligated…
GOD’S HAND “This Ezra was a scribe who was well versed in the Law of Moses… He came up to Jerusalem from Babylon, and the king gave him everything he asked for because the gracious hand of the Lord his God was on him” (Ezra 7:6 NLT). I see two interesting things about prophet Ezra in this…
ACCEPTANCE “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19 NIV). God first accepted us in His love. Today we love Him, but before we loved Him He loved us first. We cannot boast and say we love God for something He did, because He simply loved us before we did. The Bible says,…