No Place for Jesus to Rest

Numbers 22

³¹Just then, the Lord let Balaam see the angel standing in the road, holding a sword, and Balaam bowed down.

Richard: It is a blessing to be able to see where God is going with and through your life. God does not always work in just the way the we might expect.

Acts 16

²⁵About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing praises to God, while the other prisoners listened. ²⁶Suddenly a strong earthquake shook the jail to its foundations. The doors opened, and the chains fell from all the prisoners.

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Words of Truth Can Substantially Restore this Fallen World

Luke 13

¹²When Jesus saw the woman, he called her over and said, “You are now well.” ¹³He placed his hands on her, and right away she stood up straight and praised God.

Richard: I believe I can help people heal by prayer and the laying of hands.

Isaiah 59

You don’t know how
to live in peace
or to be fair with others.
The roads you make are crooked;
your followers cannot find peace.

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Find the One that Brings the Words Lost in the Garden of Eden

Mark 12

¹³The Pharisees got together with Herod’s followers.^[a] Then they sent some men to trick Jesus into saying something wrong. ¹⁴They went to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are honest. You treat everyone with the same respect, no matter who they are. And you teach the truth about what God wants people to do. Tell us, should we pay taxes to the Emperor or not?”

¹⁵Jesus knew what they were up to, and he said, “Why are you trying to test me? Show me a coin!”

¹⁶They brought him a silver coin, and he asked, “Whose picture and name are on it?”

“The Emperor’s,” they answered.

¹⁷Then Jesus told them, “Give the Emperor what belongs to him and give God what belongs to God.” The men were amazed at Jesus.

Isaiah 63

But his people remembered
what had happened
    during the time of Moses.^[d]
Didn’t the Lord^[e] bring them
and their leaders
    safely through the sea?
Didn’t he^[f] give them
    his Holy Spirit?
¹²The glorious power of the Lord
    marched beside Moses.
The Lord will be praised forever
    for dividing the sea.

Where Is the Refuge in Which Heaven Can Dwell?

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God Tried to Establish the Laws of Life

Collosians 4

¹²Your own Epaphras, who serves Christ Jesus, sends his greetings. He always prays hard that you may fully know what the Lord wants you to do and that you may do it completely.(CEV)

Esther 9

¹⁸On the fifteenth day of the month the Jews in Susa held a holiday and celebrated, after killing their enemies on the thirteenth and the fourteenth.(CEV) Continue reading “God Tried to Establish the Laws of Life”

Protect the Path of Jesus

Romans 14

10You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister^a ? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11It is written:

“ ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,

‘every knee will bow before me;

every tongue will acknowledge God.’ ”^b

12So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

Ezekiel 44

21No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court. 22They must not marry widows or divorced women; they may marry only virgins of Israelite descent or widows of priests. 23They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

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