LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY

PAINTING OF PAUL, AN APOSTLE OF CHRIST I have had to exercise my faith when I have gone through test and  trials  in my life.   I always try to remember how Christ died on the cross for me and this increases my faith. I also recall how He created the world in seven days. I know that no man could ever accomplish this feat. His power is enough for    me to believe that He can do anything.   During my Bible study I have read about numerous people who had tremendous faith. I want to look at their walk of faith this week.  This should inspire me to continue my Christian journey. LIFE LESSON :  THE UNSHAKABLE FAITH OF PAUL ACTS  21:12-14 12  Now when we heard these things, both we and those from that place pleaded with him not to go  up to Jerusalem.   13  Then Paul answered,  “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart?  For I am ready  not only to...

PAINTING: JOB WITH HIS ALTAR UNTO THE LORD I have had to exercise my faith when I have gone through test and  trials  in my life.   I always try to remember how Christ died on the cross for me and this increases my faith. I also recall how He created the world in seven days. I know that no man could ever accomplish this feat. His power is enough for  me to believe that He can do anything.   During my Bible study I have read about numerous people who had tremendous faith. I want to look at their walk of faith this week.  This should inspire me to continue my Christian journey. LIFE LESSON:  JOB REMAINED FAITHFUL IN SPITE OF HIS LOSSES JOB 1:1, 9-12, 17-19, 22 1  There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.    9  So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? ...

  PAINTING OF ABRAHAM & SARAH I have had to exercise my faith when I have gone through test and  trials  in my life.   I always try to remember how Christ died on the cross for me and this increases my faith. I also recall how He created the world in seven days. I know that no man could ever accomplish this feat. His power is enough for  me to believe that He can do anything.   During my Bible study I have read about numerous people who had tremendous faith. I want to look at their walk of faith this week.  This should inspire me to continue my Christian journey. LIFE LESSON: THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM & SARAH ROMANS  4:16   Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all HEBREWS 11:11 By faith Sar...

  PAINTING : WOMAN WITH ISSUE OF BLOOD & JESUS I have had to exercise my faith when I have gone through test and trials in my life.   I always try to remember how Christ died on the cross for me and this increases my faith. I also recall how He created the world in seven days. I know that no man could ever accomplish this feat. His power is enough for  me to believe that He can do anything.   During my Bible study I have read about numerous people who had tremendous faith. I want to look at their walk of faith this week.  This should inspire me to continue my Christian journey. LIFE LESSON:   WOMAN WITH THE ISSUE OF BLOOD MATTHEW  9:20-22 20  And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.  21  For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.”   22  But Jesus turne...

Wiki: 12th century Venetian mosaic depiction of Noah sending the dove I have had to exercise my faith when I have gone through test and trials in my life.   I always try to remember how Christ died on the cross for me and this increases my faith. I also recall how He created the world in seven days. I know that no man could ever accomplish this feat. His power is enough for  me to believe that He can do anything.   During my Bible study I have read about numerous people who had tremendous faith. I want to look at their walk of faith this week.  This should inspire me to continue my Christian journey. NOAH GENESIS 6: 8-9, 14, 18-19, 22 8  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord . 9  These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. 14  Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitc...

This week I'll feature scriptures that will discuss the word "bread". I realized how ignorant I was for not understanding that  bread  had several meanings in the Bible. The scriptures show that bread can have  a literal and figurative meaning.  LIFE LESSON:  BREAD OF LIFE IS FIGURATIVE FOR JESUS JOHN  6:35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. JOHN 6: 43-44, 47-48 43  Jesus therefore answered and said to them, “Do not murmur among yourselves. 44  No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.   47  Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me ] has everlasting life.   48  I am the bread of life.    

This week I'll feature scriptures that will discuss the word "bread". I realized how ignorant I was for not understanding that  bread  had several meanings in the Bible. The scriptures show that bread can have  a literal and figurative meaning. LIFE LESSON:  BREAD  OF SORROW FIGURATIVE FOR DESPAIR/UNHAPPINESS   Psalm 127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late,   To eat the bread  of sorrows;   For so He gives His beloved sleep.

This week I'll feature scriptures that will discuss the word "bread". I realized how ignorant I was for not understanding that  bread  had several meanings in  the Bible. The scriptures show that bread can have  a literal and figurative meaning.    LIFE LESSON:   BREAD OF AFFLICTION CAN BE FIGURATIVE FOR  SUFFERING, OPPRESSION, OR CAUSING  PAIN TO THE BODY DEUTERONOMY  16:3   You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. 1 KINGS  22:27   And say, ‘Thus says the king: “Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction , until I come in peace.”

I was reciting the Lord's Prayer Sunday in church. I used to think that "give us Lord our daily bread", meant The Lord will give us daily bread/food to eat.  I read a wonderful book several years ago, called " Didn't You Read My Book?" by Dr Richard Eby.  He explained that "The Lord" was the daily bread.   I was thinking how could this be true?  I understood what he meant after I read the scriptures below: LIFE LESSON:  BREAD (FROM HEAVEN)HAS LITERAL  MEANING IN THESE SCRIPTURES.THE BREAD IS  THE  MANNA WHICH WAS  FED TO THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY LEFT EGYPT. EXODUS 16:4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law  or not. JOHN 6:49-50 49  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they di...