Did your parents ever tell you to do something and you responded with, “Oh, but I can’t”? Maybe it was a teacher or a boss. Or maybe you told your kids to do something and they said, “Oh, but I can’t.” Is that an acceptable response? What about when God tells us something? The Lord came to Jeremiah to commission him as one of His prophets,…

“So, I used a different fire than what God authorized for me to use. What’s the big deal? Fire is fire, right?” “So, first God tells me to strike a rock and then He tells me to speak to a rock, so I just struck it the second time, too. What’s the big deal? Striking the rock was acceptable to Him before, why not now? Besides, we got…

The fastest ride at Disney World is Test Track at Epcot, which reaches a top speed of 65 mph. That pales in comparison to Falcon’s Flight, which is under construction and testing at Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia, as it is designed to reach of top speed of 155 mph. Pilots of the SR-71 Blackbird laugh at those speeds, as they flew…

Restaurants and hotels purposefully use carpet that has so many designs and patterns that stains are not easily noticed. They just blend right in. Do we ever try to hide stains in our own lives in similar fashion? The Lord says that our “sins are like scarlet…are red like crimson” (Isa. 1:18). That is not an easy stain to hide. Have you ever spilled grape juice…

The queen of Sheba heard of King Solomon’s great wealth and wisdom from the Lord, but she did not believe it. She came “to test him with hard questions” (1 Kgs. 10:1). After she had “seen all the wisdom of Solomon” and his great prosperity, the queen confessed, “It was a true report which I heard…However I did not believe the words until I…

King David faced much opposition in his life. Many times he had to flee and run for his life. His enemies were not always foreign nations, but sometimes his own king (Saul) and sometimes his own son (Absalom). David’s heart is transparent as you read through the book of Psalms, as he lays it open in his appeals to God. Consider this one from the first…

It is interesting how man has made worship more about “man” and “man’s likes” than he has about God and God’s demands. There is a mentality, which is often voiced, regarding worship that, “We’re doing this for God, to give the praise to Him. He will accept it.” Unfortunately, such sentiments are actually proven completely contrary to what God will accept. Many examples of worship…

One of the most comforting and thrilling verses in all of the Bible is the prophecy that Jeremiah foresaw in the coming new covenant and which was highlighted as a reality for Christians in the book of Hebrews, when God says, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” (Heb.…