“My heart rejoices in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies, Because I rejoice in Your salvation.” 1 Samuel 2.1 We’re going to talk today about prayer. It is a very vital subject for every one of us. The old hymn said ‘Prayer is the Christian’s vital breath, the Christian’s native air, his watch word at the gates of death, he...
21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers. 22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.” Genesis 48.21-22 A couple of things to pray for. I don’t if you know there’s going to be a...
Matthew 6.5-13, Luke 18.1-14 What prayer is and what it is not. Talking to God, not ‘vain repetitions’. ‘In this manner pray’ – analysis of the Lord’s prayer and its application to our lives. ‘As we forgive those who trespass against us’ – thoughts on forgiveness andreconciliation. ‘Deliver us from evil’ – the evil one exists. Victory over him in Jesus Christ. What a friend we have in Jesus...
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of...
But as I was thinking about all the oppressions and the bad things going on in the world it occurred to me that many of them come from 2 basic mistakes which human beings are making: Right & Wrong 1. they behave in the wrong way, and 2. they believe the wrong things. False beliefs Whether you look in the Western World, what we have here in Britain and Europe you see that we have, for the most...
3 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ 4 And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’ ” Luke 18.3-5 Okay, so that’s the first...
6 Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Luke 18.6-8 So, let’s go back to what it says in Luke chapter 18. Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not...
What we also see is a trashing of what you might call the Judeo-Christian civilization in the whole diversity agenda, which is dominating most of our public life, the media (the BBC in particular), education, most of Parliament, local government, and even much of the church. And this agenda conflicts with the biblical idea that there is one God, one mediator between God and man, the man Christ...
I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.”Our feet have been standing Within your gates, O Jerusalem! Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord;2 Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.3 If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?4 But there...
Handle Me and see,
for a spirit does not have
flesh and bones
as you see I have.
Luke 24.39