Category: Daily Promises

“There is only a handful of flour in my jar.” —1 Kings 17:12 Food was running out for the widow of Zarephath. She knew she had only one meal left before she and her son died of hunger. Hoping against hope (Rm 4:18), she believed God’s promises through the prophet Elijah, and saw the Lord multiply her food for a year (1 Kgs 17:16). Time was running out for Moses’ mother. She knew her baby boy had only moments left to live before he would be found and murdered. Hoping against hope, she prolonged the inevitable by placing her baby...

“There is only a handful of flour in my jar.” —1 Kings 17:12 Food was running out for the widow of Zarephath. She knew she had only one meal left before she and her son died of hunger. Hoping against hope (Rm 4:18), she believed God’s promises through the prophet Elijah, and saw the Lord multiply her food for a year (1 Kgs 17:16). Time was running out for Moses’ mother. She knew her baby boy had only moments left to live before he would be found and murdered. Hoping against hope, she prolonged the inevitable by placing her baby...

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all!” —2 Corinthians 13:13 When God revealed to Moses that His name was “Lord” and that He was “a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity” (Ex 34:6), “Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship” (Ex 34:8). Moses immediately knew that when God gives greater revelation of Who He is, this is an event of great significance. There are 3 R’s in life: revelation, relationship, and responsibility. When the...

“He called His disciples over and told them: ‘I want you to observe that this poor widow contributed more than all the others who donated to the treasury.’ ” —Mark 12:43 Jesus accused the scribes of devouring the savings of widows and making a show of religion (Mk 12:40). Then He commended a widow for putting “all that she had to live on” into the collection box (Mk 12:44). Why did Jesus commend a widow for helping finance the scribes’ misuse of religion to advance themselves? In this Scripture passage, Jesus does not seem to focus on how the Temple...