Month: January 2022

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. – 2 Peter 3:9 NIV There are in this passage three great truths on which to nourish the mind and rest the heart. (i) Time… Continue reading 2 Peter 3:9 Bible Study Guide: The Mercy Of God’s Delay

I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” – Lamentations 3:24 NIV It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all… Continue reading Lamentations 3:24 Bible Study Guide: The Lord is My Portion

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:6-7 NIV For the Philippians life was bound to be a worrying thing.… Continue reading Philippians 4:6-7 Bible Study Guide: The Peace Of Believing Prayer

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will… Continue reading Romans 12:1-2 Bible Study Guide: The True Worship And The Essential Change

“If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 Called by the name of the LORD, we are nevertheless erring men and… Continue reading Devotional on 2 Chronicles 7:14: If, and a Triple Promise

We love because he first loved us. – 1 John 4:19 NIV I. GOD LOVES. He is not an impassive, unemotional, passionless Being. From all eternity there was a tender, infinite, ineffable love between the Father and the Son. When the Scriptures represent God as having a heart, as pitying, sorrowing, repenting, loving, hating, there is a… Continue reading 1 John 4:19 Bible Study Guide: God’s Love and Ours

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since… Continue reading 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Bible Study Guide: The Secret Of Endurance

2 Corinthians 8:9 NIVFor you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. 9.For ye know the grace. Having made mention of love, he adduces Christ as an all perfect and singular pattern of it.… Continue reading 2 Corinthians 8:9 Bible Study Guide: Though He Was Rich, Yet for Our Sake He Became Poor

Romans 6:1-11 What, then, shall we infer? Are we to persist in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! How shall we who have died to sin still live in it? Can you be unaware that all who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death? We have therefore been buried… Continue reading Romans 6:1-11 Study Guide: Dying To Live