I Kings 18:3-4 states, “And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly: For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)” […]
Judges 7:2 says, “And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.” Curly was an old, ragged farm dog—partly poodle and average size. He loved to ride
John 4:10 & 14: “Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saitheth to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.” “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
Deuteronomy 5:33 & 29 state, “Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess” and “O that there were such a heart in
Exodus 35:10 states, “And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;” Our little church in Naches, Washington, decided we wanted to upgrade the sanctuary. We did it in one week—working from Monday morning to Saturday night. We reupholstered 120 theater seats, made new curtains for the platform,
Exodus 16:4 states, “Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or no.” One day, while changing handline sprinklers in the lower pasture,
John 3:19-21 states, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
I John 3:18 says. “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” As a child I hated reading, along with school. I never read a book of any substance until my sophomore year. That book was “Great Expectations,” by Charles Dickens. I was home sick
I John 3:7 says, “Little Children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.” While bringing a busload of kids down my mountain bus route one morning, I worked my way along a steep mountain cut-out. On the left the mountain rose steeply. On the right was
I John 2:26 states, “These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.” One Sunday morning when the church service had ended, a man appeared in the back of the sanctuary claiming to be the prophet, John. He said a few pious things and quoted a Scripture, then to prove his authenticity,
