‘Holy’ – What image does this word bring to your mind?
H – honourable
O – one true God
L – love without measure
Y – Yahweh, the most sacred God (Jehovah)
The word ‘holy’ carries a reverence of its own. You…..
Grace – what does it mean?
Within the spiritual context, it is understood as ‘unmerited favour’.
G – God’s
R – Riches
A – At
C – Christ’s
E – Expense
Grace is the overflowing favour of God. Imagine pouring yourself a nice cold drink from a can into your glass… it fills up so quickly till it overflows. Similarly, we need God’s grace afresh each day to start…..
Faith is a powerful word. It is defined as the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Let’s see what is the Biblical acronym for it…
F – Forsaking
A – All
I – I
T – Trust
H –…..
The letter ‘E’
ENTER
E – embark on a determined plan
N – never doubt i.e. be resolute
T – take action
E – experience the fullness
R – rest in the assurance
When we determine in our heart to embark on a plan, we need to know deep within that it is the path that we want to take. We have to be sure of the fact and…..
The letter ‘D’
D – do
O – others first
Ponder on these things:
The command to ‘Do’ is used repeatedly in the Bible. Mary, the mother of Jesus asked the servants at the wedding feast at Cana to “Do what He says to you.” She knew something about the divine nature of Christ even before…..
The letter ‘C’
CLOUD
C – constant reminder
L – look up to the Lord (see what the heavens declare)
O – out of the ordinary, God speaks
U – under the sun, there is nothing God does not see or know about – He is omniscient
D – divine protection and providence…..
‘B’ for Believer
Who is a believer?
Read: 1 Peter 8:12; Romans 10:9-19; Luke 8:1-15
Here is a Bible acronym Dad taught us when we were kids:
B.I.B.L.E.
B –> Be
I –> Informed
B–> Before
L–> Leaving
E–> Earth
What makes a person a Believer?
B –> believe that Jesus Christ is God’s Son, be baptized…..
‘A’ for Ascension
A –> Anointed One
S –> Son of Man, Son of God, a Self-Sacrificing life
C –> Christ came down to Earth
E –> Everlasting Prince of Peace
N –> Name above all names
S –> Saviour in human flesh
I –> In unison with the Father above, ineradicably intertwined
O –> One and…..
Prophetic Scriptures in the Old Testament tell us that the Messiah will come and they are confirmed in the New Testament, proving the Sovereignty and Power of Almighty God.
Old Testament
Moses told the people this powerful word on the subject of the Messiah, which was fulfilled in the New Testament: “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.” Deuteronomy 18:15…..
Addressing dementia…being there even when nobody (up there ‘mentally’) is there.
This is a painful topic, but an increasingly present challenge to us nowadays.
‘A friend sticks closer than a brother’, they say. Why is that so? If we think deeper about it, there are some commonsense…..