Power in Weakness
Mark 14:37-42 The Lord has given many great and precious promises that He is willing to fulfill in our lives through prayer. We are utterly weak apart from Christ and the manifested presence of the...
View ArticlePraying With Boldness
Mark 14:43-50 Christ humbled himself and proved His obedience by His death on the cross. The secret to having the Holy Spirit’s power in prayer is to keep in step with the Spirit through surrender and...
View ArticlePraying For Deliverance
Daniel 6:6-14 When the enemy came in like a flood, Daniel knew that the solution and deliverance would be found through prayer. Daniel spent time in prayer every morning, noon, and evening. His heart...
View ArticleShowers of Blessing
Acts 12:5-11 James was put to death and the people of God were under tremendous pressure and persecution. The situation grew worse when Peter was seized and imprisoned. The church received victory by...
View ArticleChrist Our Intercessor
1 Timothy 2:1-7 Christ is at the right hand of the Father, ever interceding for us. He has given us His Holy Spirit to help us pray in agreement with the will of the Father. He helps us fight our...
View ArticlePassionate Prayer
Hebrews 5:1-10 Christ came to seek and to save His people from their sins. His supreme desire was to do the will of His Father. Passion and devotion inspired His praying and ministry. In the same way,...
View ArticlePreparing For Obedience
Mark 14:27-31 Jesus was with His disciples for Passover, commonly referred to as the Last Supper. Like any “last supper,” we don’t know that is what it is until after the fact. Jesus knew, though....
View ArticleJesus Is Never Wrong
Mark 14:66-72 Most of us have known a level of sorrow. But certainly nothing like the story of Jesus and Peter in Mark 14. Jesus had been arrested and taken before the Sanhedrin, He was condemned and...
View ArticleRestored By God
John 21:15-19 During a post-resurrection breakfast on the beach, Jesus allows Peter to reaffirm his love. Jesus encourages Peter to care for and feed His sheep. He reveals Peter’s future, his death,...
View ArticleGod Knows
Psalm 139:17-24 Peter may have prayed Psalm 139 when reflecting on his failure and the gracious way in which Jesus called him back. Surely, he would have struggled with similar feelings toward those...
View ArticleFollowing God’s Call
Matthew 10:34-42 Oswald Chambers writes on the first day of the year in My Utmost for His Highest, “When we consider what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He does not know...
View ArticleKingdom of Servants
Luke 22:24-32 Most pastors can tell stories of how people have accosted them just as they were preparing to step up to the pulpit to preach. I think that must have been much like what Jesus felt when...
View ArticleI Will Gather Them
Jeremiah 32:33-41 Jeremiah 32 begins by describing the citizens of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem who had turned their backs on God. They were people who had not listened and would not receive...
View ArticleI’ll Go
Mark 14:53-59 I love a blazing fire on a wintry day. HIt’s hard to leave all that and go back out into the cold, isn’t it? Mark 14 finds Peter nestled up to a fire on a cold night. Simultaneously,...
View ArticleShare Your Story
Mark 14:60-65 There is a temptation for believers in our Christian-critical culture to stay close to the home fires rather than stepping out into a cold, unaccommodating world to show and share the...
View ArticleGod’s Deliverance
Mark 15:1-8 One of the amazing facts of Scripture are the many Old Testament accounts which predict the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 53, Psalm 16:10, and so on)....
View ArticleWhy?
Mark 15:9-15 The only recorded voice of defense on Jesus’ behalf was Pilate. The person who washed his hands of any responsibility for Jesus and turned Him over to be crucified was also the lone voice...
View ArticlePass The Test
1 John 4:1-6 Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m just not a good test taker”? The implication is that a person can become paralyzed when it comes to putting knowledge to pencil and paper during...
View ArticleDo Not Fear
John 3:16-21 Have you ever been in a dark room with a black light? It can be eerie and ethereal. Can I just say, “The lint!” Wearing a dark shirt into a room of black lights will ignite every speck of...
View ArticleServe One or The Other
Joshua 24:11-16 I just want to get this out there: You can have your cake and eat it, too! Why have a cake if you can’t eat it! Let the people say, “Amen!” The point Joshua was making in Joshua 24,...
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