Intercession

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever lose his life for My sake will find it. For what will it…

Not a verse today, but a poem.   The future is a blank without a view. That which I wanted most, You have denied; I cannot understand (and I have tried); There’s nothing I can do but wait on You.   Earth offered much, and I had, lingering long Outside…

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; And He will reign as king and act wisely And do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is…

“…the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10“…joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30:5 Oh to know the joy of the Lord!  But joy is born from sorrow.  In Nehemiah it was the sorrow of having forgotten their God, of having been in exile from their homeland, and…

Not a verse today, but an excerpt from a book Dawn of Liberty by Michael Phillips (excellent series called the Secret of the Rose).   “What about my yoke is easy and my burden light?” “After we’ve utterly relinquished self, that is true.  But as long as we continue to…