IN NO WAY …and said: “Let us build with you,…. Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other leaders of Israel replied, “YOU MAY HAVE NO part in this work. We alone will build the Temple for the Lord, the God of Israel… (Ezra 4:2-3 NLT) There will be times in life that you will have to learn…
THE SHOUTS OF JOY MIXED WITH THE CRIES OF GRATITUDE This will be heard after the coronavirus. But many of the older priests, Levites, and other leaders who had seen the first Temple wept aloud when they saw the new Temple’s foundation. The others, however, were shouting for joy. The joyful shouting and weeping mingled…
HOW CAN I SEE THIS AND DO NOTHING? For how can I endure to see my people and my family…destroyed? (Esther 8:6 NLT) We can’t sit around and not take action when we see suffering in society, knowing the solution. We weren’t created to be insensitive people. God wired us in such a way that,…
FOLLOW YOUR WAY TO THE END “As for you, go your way until the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days, you will rise again to receive the inheritance set aside for you.”(Daniel 12:13 NLT) These days, people are tempted to give up, but we must continue our way to…
THE GRIEF I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them and exchange their sorrow for rejoicing. (Jeremiah 31:13 NLT) Grief is a difficult process that people go through when there is a loss of any kind (loved one, health, job, divorce, finances, etc.) Something changes in their personal world and they…
YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR PAIN He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. (2 Corinthias 1:4 NLT) We can do two things with deception and pain: Sink into our tears and…
CELEBRATE SOMETHING GOOD DESPITE THE PANDEMIC He told them to celebrate these days with feasting and gladness and by giving gifts of food to each other and presents to the poor. This would commemorate a time when the Jews gained relief from their enemies, when their sorrow was turned into gladness and their mourning into…
NOW I… »“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven….». (Daniel 4:37 NLT) Oh … If only all the people in the world could say these two things: “Now I”, God would end the coronavirus pandemic. 1.- Now. Not waiting to repent. Now! Not waiting to go back to God. Now!…
SWIMMING OR JUST ANKLE DEEP Those who have gone only up to the ankles will not come out of this crisis successfully. Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be…
THE WATERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL REMOVE BITTERNESS FROM THE HEART ..The waters of this stream will make the salty waters of the Dead Sea fresh and pure.(Ezekiel 47:8 NLT) There are things in our life that were salty and lifeless, but when we came to the Lord they came back to life. Sometimes…