May 13, 2020: The Reason to Rejoice-True Repentance Brings Restoration
Jonah 3:9-10 (NIV) “Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.” Judah and Israel were a nation […]
May 12, 2020: Reason to rejoice-The Kingdoms of this World Will Not Be Much Longer.
Obadiah 1:21 (NIV) 21 Deliverers will go up on Mount Zion to govern the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will be the LORD’s. When you read the newspapers or listen to the media pundits, it seems as if the ungodly will last forever. This is not so. They may think this is so, but […]
May 10, 2020: Reason to Rejoice-Wasted Years are Restored!
Joel 2:25 (NIV) 25 ‘I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten– the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm– my great army that I sent among you. My sixty-third birthday is fast approaching. Recently I have been reflecting over the years God has given me, […]
May 9, 2020: Reason to Rejoice-God Will Not Give Up On You!
Hosea 11:8-9 (NIV) 8 “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused. 9 I will not carry out my fierce anger, nor will I […]
May 8, 2020: Reason to rejoice-We are More than Overcomers
Daniel 3:21-25 (NIV) 21 So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. 22 The King’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 23 and these three […]
May 7, 2020: Reason to Rejoice-Your Redeemer is God Himself
Ezekiel 36:24-32 (NIV) 24″ ‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. […]
May 6, 2020: Reason to Rejoice- His Mercies are New Every Morning!
Lamentations 3:17-26 (NIV) 17 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. 18 So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.” 19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. 20 I well remember them, and my soul is […]
May 5, 2020: Reason to Rejoice-God Does His Best work in Hard Places
Jeremiah 33:3 (NIV) ‘Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ Judah was under siege. The King of Babylon had surrounded the city of Jerusalem. Food was scarce, and water was hard to find. The people in the city walls were reduced to eating […]
May 4: 2020: Reason To Rejoice-Our God Rejoices Over You!
“As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride so our god rejoices over you.’ (Isaiah 62:5) How is your picture of God? When you think of Him do you see Him waiting for the day when he comes to take you home with great joy and gladness? Do you see him as someone who really doesn’t […]