God Is Working It Out for You You must believe what God says about you, over what everyone else says! Stop listening to those who claim you’ll never amount to anything. You might’ve had a bad childhood, or a failed marriage or career. ‘Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto…
God Is Working It Out for You was originally published on BIBLE Knowledge
jamesmacdonald.com So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift(Matthew 5:23-24, ESV). Forgiveness is the starting point in restoring relational harmony—there are no…
THE FEAR OF FORGIVENESS was originally published on BIBLE Knowledge
jamesmacdonald.com Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you (1 Peter 5:5–6, ESV). God opposes…
Who Gets Grace? was originally published on BIBLE Knowledge
jamesmacdonald.com Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength (Isaiah 40:28–29, ESV). It’s hard enough to admit…
The One You Really Need was originally published on BIBLE Knowledge
jamesmacdonald.com But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine” (Isaiah 43:1, ESV). God is very personal. Consider the word formed (v.1)—it’s so intimate. God may have spoken the universe into existence, but He formed you.This is the…
Who God Says You Are was originally published on BIBLE Knowledge