Read Colossians 4:2 Read Colossians 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. Colossians 4:2 It has well been said that the purpose of prayer is not to get our will done in heaven, but to get God’s will done on earth. Prayer is not telling God what to...
Read Romans 2:1—3:20 Consistent Actions To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. Romans 2:7–8 God had given Israel great...
Jeremiah 37:16-17: When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, “Is there any word from the LORD?” And Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he...
JEREMIAH 36:4 : Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him. A first-grade girl was sitting next to her grandmother during the morning worship...
JEREMIAH 33:3 : “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Years ago there was a great drought in Connecticut. The water disappeared from the hills, and the farmers drove their cattle into the valleys. Streams there began...
JEREMIAH 32:27 : “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” A rather sickly woman had been deserted by her husband. He left her with three preschool children, a mangy dog, a broken-down, second-floor flat and many bills. One morning she...
JEREMIAH 31:34 : “No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will...
JEREMIAH 31:3 : The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.” In his book, Make Your Life Worthwhile, Richard Armstrong shares the story of a man in Wales who sought to win the...
JEREMIAH 30:7: Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Society is filled with offers for deliverance. If you have a toothache, a dentist can take care of it. If...
JEREMIAH 29:13 : And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. A 911 operator received a call one evening but heard nothing on the line. Fearing the worst, she called back. A little boy answered the phone in a barely audibly...
