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Category Archives: God's Timing
Can God’s Plan Take a Long Time to Play Out?
(Questions From Israel’s Exodus” series: post #2) We expect God to do His work through angels, lightning bolts, and whirlwinds, but the fact is that He usually does it through people. More to the point, He oftentimes raises up just … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Aging, Coming Judgment, Disappointment, Doubt, Faith, Faithfulness, God's Timing, God's Work, Justice, Patience, Persecution, Perseverance, Prayer Requests, Problems, Series: "Questions From Israel's Exodus", Suffering, Trials, Trusting In God, Waiting
Tagged God works through individuals, Moses put in the basket, Moses' parents hiding him, the birth of Moses, waiting on God's deliverance
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Does God Sometimes Let Us Endure Dark Days?
(“Questions From Israel’s Exodus” series: post #1) In Genesis 15:12-16, we read about a dream that Abraham had in which God declared that Abraham’s descendants would spend 400 years in a foreign land and be afflicted there through servitude to … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Christ's Birth, Depression, Disappointment, Doubt, Faithfulness, God's Timing, God's Work, Human Life, Patience, Perseverance, Problems, Series: "Questions From Israel's Exodus", Slavery, Suffering, Trials, Trusting In God, Waiting
Tagged Herod killing the babies of Bethlehem, Israel throwing their males babies into the Nile river, Israel's exodus from Egypt, Israel's 400 years in Egypt, serving God in difficult times, We ought to obey God rather than men, Why does God allow dark times in our lives?
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Nahum (post #4)
An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength! (Nahum 2:1, N.I.V.) Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrian empire, was an incredible city. Its origins could be traced back to … Continue reading
Posted in Christ's Return, Coming Judgment, God's Timing, God's Wrath, God's Judgment, Homosexuality, Prophecy, Series: "Nahum"
Tagged Diodorus Siculus, Nahum prophesies Nineveh's fall, Sardanapalus, the cruelty of Assyrian's soldiers, the fall of Nineveh, the size of the city of Nineveh, the Tigris flooding Nineveh
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Nahum (post #1)
The burden against Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; The Lord avenges and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His … Continue reading
The Little Boy & The Old Man
(The following story is my embellished version of the story “Twinkies and Root Beer” from an unknown author. The story was first published by Warner Press’ “Christian Art.” I started with the original, reworked it by adding quite a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Children, God's Love, God's Omnipotence, God's Timing, God's Provision, God's Work, Grace, Influence, Ministry, Needs, Service
Tagged God using people in His service, God works through people, how God meets our needs, story about a little boy and an old man, story about twinkies and root beer, the boy who thought the old man was God, the old man who thought the boy was God
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Even Satan Is Under God’s Control
Some Christians seem to operate under the mentality that Satan is bigger than God. These folks would do well to pay closer attention to the story of Job. Sure, God let Satan take a couple of runs at Job, but … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Doubt, God's Timing, God's Sovereignty, Perseverance, Satan, Spiritual Warfare, The Devil, Trials, Trusting In God, Waiting
Tagged being sifted by Satan, God limited what Satan did to Job, Satan can only do what God allows, Satan desiring to sift Peter, Satan throwing the Christians of Smyrna into prison
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Six Feet Farther
The story is told of a Swedish miner who purchased an expensive claim in a certain region known for its mother-lode of gold. He then spent the next three years working hard to strike it rich in that claim. In … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Choices, Commitment, Decisions, Doing Good, Encouragement, Faithfulness, God's Timing, God's Will, God's Work, Impatience, Patience, Perseverance, Reward, Satan, Sowing and Reaping, The Devil, Waiting
Tagged let us not grow weary while doing good, Satan's momentary fleshly pleasures, Satan's rewards vs. God's rewards, story about the miner digging just a little deeper
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God’s Four Answers to Prayer Requests
Preachers love to come up with pithy little outlines to describe how God answers prayer requests. So, for today’s post I thought I’d share a couple such examples. Each of these has been passed around so much that I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Desires, Disappointment, Discernment, Discipleship, God's Love, God's Timing, God's Provision, God's Will, God's Work, Needs, Personal, Prayer, Prayer Requests, Problems, Trusting In God
Tagged 4 ways God answers prayer, Abraham's servant finding Rebekah, outlines for how God answers prayer, trusting God's answer, when God answers your prayer in a different way, when God says no, when God says wait, when God says yes
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Old As Methuselah
So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. (Genesis 5:27, N.K.J.V.) Have you ever heard the saying, “He’s old as Methuselah?” If you are old enough yourself (pun intended), you probably have. But … Continue reading
Posted in Creation, God's Love, God's Timing, God's Wrath, God's Judgment, God's Mercy, Prophecy
Tagged How did people live so long in Bible times?, How old was Methuselah?, It didn't rain before Noah's flood, life spans in the pre-flood world, old as Methuselah, people living to be 900 years old, the longsuffering of God, the waters above the firmament, What is the firmament?, When he dies it shall be sent, When he dies it will come, Why did it rain so much during Noah's flood?
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