…strengthen your brothers.

31“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you,[d] that he might sift you like wheat, 32but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
-Luke 22.31-32 (ESV)
Jesus prayed that the disciples’ faith wouldn’t fail… and he said “when you have turned again, strengthen [...]

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Isaiah 58.11, ESV

And the LORD will guide you continually
and satisfy your desire in scorched places
and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.
 
Just wanna say sorry for not posting much here of late, thanks all who have been sharing and encouraging everybody else here and through [...]

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring [...]

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Luke 18.7-8, ESV

And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

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Praying for rain

Job 37:6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
Deuteronomy 11:11-17 But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, (12) a land that the [...]

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Matthew 11.28-30, ESV

28Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

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Jesus, the truth from God

If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him [...]

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Revelation 3.19-22

19Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 21The one who conquers, I will grant him to [...]

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Returning to Him

And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that [...]

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sinners are thirsty

Matthew 9:9-11 (New International Version)

The Calling of Matthew
 9As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” came and ate with him and his [...]

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