Category: Verse for the day
“The seventy-two returned in jubilation saying, ‘Master, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.’ ” –Luke 10:17 Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and praised His Father. He was so excited because His Father hid things from the learned and the clever and revealed these things to the merest children (Lk 10:21). The disciples had just returned, impressed because they could overcome demons in Jesus’ name. They had shot Satan right out of the sky and had “power to tread on snakes and scorpions and all the forces of the enemy” (Lk 10:18-19). This victory over Satan...
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Job prayed that his words would be inscribed in a record (Jb 19:23). His prayer was answered when these words became part of the Bible. Job also prayed that his words would be cut in the rock forever with an iron chisel and with lead. His following words were even further immortalized through Handel’s Messiah. Job proclaimed: “I know that my Vindicator lives” (Jb 19:25), which is also translated: “I know that my Redeemer liveth.”
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“Should one wish to contend with Him, he could not answer Him once in a thousand times.” –Job 9:3 God is beyond the powers of human expression. “He removes the mountains before they know it; He overturns them in His anger. He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble” (Jb 9:5-6). “He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the crests of the sea” (Jb 9:8). “He does great things past finding out, marvelous things beyond reckoning” (Jb 9:10). “Should He seize me forcibly, who can say Him nay? Who can say to...
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“You shall see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” ––John 1:51 How often do you think about the Archangels? How often do you think about your guardian angel? It appears Jesus often thinks of His angels, since He frequently refers to them in the Gospels. “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, escorted by all the angels of heaven, He will sit upon His royal throne” (Mt 25:31). Seeing that angels enjoy such intimacy with the Lord, it’s incumbent upon us to further investigate our relationship with them....
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“Though You test my heart, searching it in the night, though You try me with fire, You shall find no malice in me.” –Psalm 17:3 In one day, Job lost everything that was precious to him. Satan placed his bets on Job responding to this tragedy with malice by blaspheming God to His face (Jb 1:11). “In all this Job did not sin, nor did he say anything disrespectful of God” (Jb 1:22). Rather, Job responded: “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!” (Jb 1:21) The prophet Jonah faced a much...
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