Penalty Box

Numbers 12:15 “So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back” (NIV). Observation: Miriam had exposed a petulant jealous streak by speaking against Moses, saying, “Has the Lord spoken only through...

Fathering

1 Corinthians 1:9; 2:14 “God is faithful. …But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God. Observation: Paul was spiritual father to the Corinthians, having been first to preach the Gospel there on an earlier trip. Corinth was a remarkably wicked...

Houston, We Have a Problem

Acts 3:26 “For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” Observation: Peter had called his listeners to repent, that they might have their sins wiped away and experience times of refreshing. He...

Heart Surgery

Psalm 141:3-5 “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips. Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.  Let the righteous smite me in...

God’s Heartedness Scale

Jeremiah 29:11-13 “’For I know the plans that I have for You.’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek Me and find Me when...