Swallowed Have you ever wondered what happens when you swallow food? Let me share with you what I found. The stomach churns the food by contracting and relaxing and begins to break it up. This allows the stomach enzymes to work faster on the food. The stomach also releases gastric juices into the food that […]

Trust God When We Don’t Understand When the children of Israel were finally free from their 400 years of bondage to the Egyptians, they began their march to freedom. But it wasn’t long before God led them to what they considered to be a dead end and certain death. God led them to the Red […]

Actions Speak Louder Moses failed to follow God’s instructions to speak to the Rock so the Lord could bring out life giving water for the people. Instead Moses struck the Rock with his rod, Numbers 20:11. It’s not only in what we say that we’ll be held accountable to God, but also it’s about how […]

The Cost of Christianity When will we stop thinking we can serve God and it will cost us nothing. Somewhere in our not too distant past, Christians began thinking they could be saved but not serve. They began to think they could be a Christian and just sit in the pews, or they could be […]

Remaining Available for God’s Anointing God’s ability to fulfill His promises in us and through us is totally dependent upon our remaining open and available. This is the widow’s lesson. A widow of a prophet came to Elisha telling him a creditor was about to take her sons as payment of a past debt. To […]

A Fly in the Ointment Flies can stink up anything, even something as sweet as perfume. “Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor.” (Ecclesiastes 10:1) Solomon in this chapter talks about how foolish it is […]

The Goodness Quotient The Bible continually talks about God being tired of our meaningless sacrifices if we ignore the needy. Through the prophet Isaiah, God questions the people’s sacrifices and how He’s had enough of their hypocrisy. “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to […]

Distorted Images Distorted mirrors gives distorted images. Remember the traveling carnivals. They invariably have a “Fun House” filled with all these warped mirrors. When we’d look into them we’d see a distorted image of ourselves. For some our heads were too big. Okay, for some that may not be a distortion. But other mirrors would […]

Jesus, Our Beginning and End “And Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Then Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.” (1 Samuel 7:9) The spiritual significance of this verse and what happen at this time cannot be overlooked, nor […]

United We Stand, Divided We Fall If we’re ever going to survive in this harsh world, we have to band together, both physically and spiritually. “United We Stand, Divided We Fall” was a motto from the American Revolution. Later, as America was being ripped apart by the slavery debate, Abraham Lincoln used this same prophetic […]