God’s first covenant with mankind was given by him in Genesis 2:16-17, where he commanded man, “eat of any tree in the garden, but of the tree of good and evil…if you eat of it you shall surely die!” Man broke this covenant. What is a covenant? A covenant is a binding agreement of something [...]
Unlike today Old Testament parents would give names to their children that reflected the child’s physical appearance, ease or difficulty of birth, their desired relationship with God or their hope for the child’s nature. Adam – red earth – Gen. 2:7 Eve – life – Gen. 2:18 Gad – good fortune – Gen. 30:10 Gareb [...]
Light Catchers God designed us to be light catchers, Ephesians 5:8. Everything that flows by His Holy Spirit is Light. His divine illuminations, His power and energy has a divine purpose in us. We are to stand in this stream or flow of divine moments and reach inward to its source, the Holy Spirit, catch [...]
Jesus said, “…Man…shall live on [by] every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4. Think of that! We should…we must live by his Word. To do so will propel us into the heavenlies or would immerse us into spiritual realms of joy and satisfaction. Regrettably few of us are there yet. [...]
Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard, elitist colleges on the East coast of America, are constantly vying with each other in various competitive events. Recently my granddaughter, who attends Dartmouth, excelled in an annual towing event by beating Yale in sculling (rowing). She is the coxswain (captain), the stroke who sets the rhythm for the rowers or [...]
Did you know that deep inside of you is a place, a spiritual abode. This place is not your organs that give you life; ie, heart, liver, stomach. This place is not your human consciousness. In fact nothing that can be identified as your human self; ie, ego, self-consciousness, human love or intellect, is housed [...]
Nothing is created by its own power; neither does it exist nor is it sustained by itself. Everything in the universe, from the smallest particle or atom to the largest stellar star is dependent upon God’s laws, God’s purpose and God’s provision. Nothing exists by itself. Our being like-minded with Christ Jesus is God’s primary [...]
Telemachus, a first century monk lived in a monastery several miles outside of Rome. There he led a casual life of prayer, meditation and gardening. He was an ordinary man with no outstanding talents. He had no skills as a scholar, a teacher or an evangelist. On occasion his ear and heart were open to [...]
A seed, less than a quarter inch in size, placed in the darkness of earth, immediately comes to life drawing power from the soil and the sun. Shortly vines, leaves and a flower appears. The flower produces a body imaginatively coloured green and white which can grow to several feet in diameter. The rind casing [...]