Isaiah 48:17
17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Imagine standing before Christ one day and hearing:
"You watched thousands of hours of entertainment.
You read and watched endless news.
You argued and bickered online.
You scrolled for years.
But you barely opened the Book I gave you."
That thought convicts me. It reminds me to keep returning to Scripture, because no voice matters more than the voice of God speaking through His Word.
⭐️AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIP⭐️
✨✨✨✨with God✨✨✨✨
Out of the mouths of babes…
Armour Up!✨✨🙏🏻✨✨
James 4:8 (NIV) is one of the most direct and encouraging scriptures for growing closer to God:
“Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
Why it’s powerful:
• It’s a clear promise and invitation: As you intentionally draw close (through prayer, reading Scripture, worship, obedience, etc.), God draws close to you.
• It emphasizes action on our part — repentance, purity of heart, and single-minded devotion.
• It’s practical for daily life: the more you pursue Him, the more you experience His presence.
Other strong companion verses:
• Jeremiah 29:13 — “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
• Psalm 119:105 — “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” (Great for consistent Bible reading)
• Matthew 6:33 — “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”
Saw this on FB: 🔥 🔥
On day 1 of my high school history class, our teacher got up and said:
“You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago, people your age were married, planted crops, had children and built a cabin before winter.
You can do your homework. The bar is set embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies.
You just have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe air-conditioned room.
You have no excuses.”
This is the kind of teachers we need.
The math behind Jesus being the Messiah is mind blowing.
Here are the odds:
8 specific prophecies fulfilled by one man:
1 in 100 quadrillion
48 prophecies:
1 in 10¹⁵⁷
That’s a number beyond human comprehension.
Jesus fulfilled 300–500+ Old Testament prophecies written centuries before His birth.
This isn’t chance.
This isn’t coincidence.
The odds are literally astronomical.
Our King is the real deal.
The more science advances, the more difficult it becomes to be an atheist.
Look at this: the most detailed image ever of a single human cell.
Your body contains 37 trillion of them.
This is divine engineering.
God’s masterpiece.
Helen Roseveare, a missionary who faced intense suffering and persecution during her 20 years of service in the Congo, shares one of the times that she saw God answer prayer in a most unexpected way:
"I went to have prayers with our orphanage children as I did every day, and any of the children wanted gathered around me for prayer time, and I'd give them different things to pray about. And this particular day, I told the children of this tiny baby and asked them to pray for the nurses that they would stay awake all night to keep that baby warm. If the baby got cold, it would die. I mentioned that the baby had a 2-year-old sister who was crying because her mommy had died. I mentioned the burst hot water bottle.
During prayer time, different children prayed for different things, and then one little 10-year-old girl, Ruth, she prayed in the usual blunt way of our African children, 'Please, God, send us a hot water bottle. Now, God, it'll be no good tomorrow. Send it this afternoon. Now, if it comes tomorrow, the baby will be dead.'
I'm sort of swallowing hard, and she said, 'While you're about it, God, would you send a dolly for the little 2-year-old sister, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?'
And that afternoon, the parcel came. It was the first parcel I ever, I've been out there four years, I'd never had a parcel from home. And despite the fact I live on the equator, somebody packing that parcel had been prompted by God to put in a hot water bottle, and a child from my Bible class at home had put in a dolly for a little girl.
And it came that afternoon in answer to a 10 year-old child's prayer, and the amazing thing was, you know, that parcel had been on the way five months to get to us. It had left England in July, and it came that afternoon, cause a child prayed."
FINDING OUR FAITH: Former HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson says a lot of people "don't understand" how faith and religious principles were woven into the fabric of the United States by the nation's founders 250 years ago.
"I wonder if those people have read our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, which says that our rights come from our creator."