‘Nothing is as wonderful as knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have given up everything else and count it all as garbage. All I want is Christ.’ Philippians 3:8 CEV Before you discover your God-given purpose in life, you’ll often experience a series of adversities that...
‘Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine?’ Luke 17:17 NLT One day Jesus healed 10 men of leprosy, which at the time was a death sentence because there was no known cure for it. Amazingly, only one of them remembered to come back and thank Him. What’s the story...
‘Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine.’ Daniel 1:8 NIV What was Daniel’s problem? What was wrong with eating the best food in the country? Most people lived on a meagre diet. Daniel was going to have the opportunity to eat, literally,...
‘Plead the case of the widow.’ Isaiah 1:17 NIV In New Testament times society had no welfare system. That’s why the apostle James wrote, ‘Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows.’ (James 1:27 NIV) This could...
‘Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, but he was the son of a harlot.’ Judges 11:1 NKJV Sociologists tell us that human behaviour is largely determined by two things: our parents and our environment. Judging by that, they’d have written Jephthah off as a...
