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The Temptation of Jesus – Lust of the flesh
Hello and welcome. Our quiet time today is from the book of Luke 4:1-13, popularly known in the scriptures as the temptation of Jesus. But I term it the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life 1 John 2:16. Today we shall be looking at the lust of the…
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The ways of God – His commandments
What does commandment mean? There are many different definitions of commandments. Some dictionaries describe it as a strict rule to be observed, others, as a divine rule that must be obeyed. These are all true but a simple way of viewing God’s commandments is that it is the word of God. His voice, what he…
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The ways of God – His Grace and Mercy.
Hi there, hope your day is going well. Let’s dig into today’s study We shall examine the ways of God. First of all let me start by attempting to explain what I mean by the ways of God. What are the ways of God, or what is the way of God? God’s ways refer to…
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A Fruitful Heart
What is the heart? The heart is the spiritual core of our being where our emotions and desires dwell (not the physical heart), it also comprise of our conscience (1 John3:20). To show its importance it is mentioned up to 1,000 times in the bible and the bible also records that God has a heart…
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Lessons from Ezra 2
We continue our study of the life of Ezra. We discussed in the first study that during the reign of King Artaxerxes, an opposition arose that stopped building the temple for 18 years. The Bible records that the enemies of the Israelites (the enemy of our soul, the devil) sent a letter to the king…
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Lessons from Ezra part 1
It starts in Ezra1 where God moved the heart of king Cyrus to ask the Israelites that had been in exile to Persia to return and rebuild the the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. God moved Cyrus’s heart to recognize him as God (Ezra 1:3), and to let the remaining Israelites in exile return…