Just a Guy Studying the Bible

Joshua 24, verse 151 Kings 18, verse 212 Chronicles 14, verse 32 Chronicles 33, verse 15Ephesians 3, verses 17-19Colossians 3, verse 16The Bible presents a choice between Good and Evil, between Obedience and Sin, between the Lord and Baal. To maintain our most cherished desire - a constant fellowship with Jesus Christ - we must strive to choose the Lord over Baal. Having accepted Jesus into our he...

1 John 1, verses 8 through 10Matthew 26, verses 27 and 28Ephesians 1, verses 7 and 8James 5, verses 13 through 16In our daily walk with Christ, some of us are further down the trail than others. Some of us must struggle against the Powers and Principalities of this world until we get it through our thick skulls that we can lay our burden down. And even then, it's a repeating cycle of falling and g...

Matthew 5, verses 6 and 8 John 15, verse 19 Romans 8, verses 1 and 4 Romans 14, verse 17 1 Corinthians 3, verse 16 Here we look at some verses having to do with the walk of holiness. How do we conduct our lives so that we may dwell in the kingdom of God even as we live in the world of flesh? We struggle day by day with forces and influences that distract and seduce us back into a futile quest to s...

Matthew 11, verse 19 Matthew 9, verse 10 Hebrews 2, verse 14 1 John 3, verses 8 through 12 Mark 11, verse 25 Ephesians 4, verse 32 Thomas Brooks - Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DHV2H581/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title It’s a simple truth: when we give ourselves to God and accept the free gift of Grace and Salvation granted us through the blood of Jesus on th...

Romans 12, verses 1 through 3 1 Peter 2, verse 5 Romans 8, verse 29 1 Peter 4, verse 1 James 4, verse 6 The bottom line is, we’ve been given new Life through the blood of Christ. Realizing this way down in the depths of our souls, we are inspired to present both our bodies and spirits as a living sacrifice to God, to renew our minds each and every day through a determination to conform our lives t...

John 3, verse 19 John 8, verse 12 John 9, verse 5 John 12, verses 35, 36 and 46 Micah 3, verses 1 through 4 Ephesians 5, verse 11 The inspired Word of the Bible equates light with God and goodness, and darkness with evil and the absence of God. We are taught to refrain from fellowship with the “unfruitful works” of darkness, and to reprove those works. We are also taught that the Light of Jesus Ch...

1 Thessalonians 5, verse 17 Acts 12, verse 5 Romans 1, verse 9 While we may not be able to pray 24/7, 365 days a year, night and day - we are able to develop a habit of turning our inner gaze toward the Lord as much as possible. In doing so, we avail ourselves of His infinite power, love, healing and understanding, all while getting our own egos out of the way. Every human has a deep desire to com...

Jeremiah 1, verses 4 through 10 Isaiah 49, verse 1 Romans 8, verse 29 Psalm 139, verses 13 through 16 Jeremiah, Isaiah, Paul and David provided us vivid, poetic, deeply mystical expressions reminding us that the same majestic God who created the impossibly vast universe, is also the impossibly intimate God who knew us before he fashioned every aspect of our being before we were born. The God who k...

Genesis 13, verses 8 through 13 Luke 21, verses 1 through 4 Matthew 5, verse 42 2 Corinthians 9, verse 7 The poor, destitute widow gave her everything, even though it amounted to just two mites. The rich men poured coins into the treasury, making a show of their largess. Jesus knew their hearts, and determined that the widow gave more than all the rich men taken together. The widow’s generosity wa...

John 14, verse 26Deuteronomy 8, verse 18Genesis 12, versus 7 through 9Genesis 13, verses 14 through 18Luke 13, verses 24 through 30Humans have built religious altars for thousands of years, to perform sacrifices and to commemorate divine visitations. Abram, who became the patriarch Abraham, built multiple altars for the express purpose of remembering the presence of God. It turns out that altars a...

Jeremiah 31, verse 3Ephesians 1, verses 3 and 4Hebrews 13, verse 8Psalm 23The Biblical phrase "before the foundation of the world" occurs several times, meant to remind us that God's Plan for the world and for our individual lives was set in place before the Creation. God is all-knowing, and His timing is infinitely beyond anything we could possibly conceive. God's Word also reminds us that all ou...

James 1, verses 12 through 15Hebrews 2, verse 181 John 4, verse 4Matthew 26, verse 412 Peter 3, verse 171 Corinthians 10, verse 13Temptation in this world is relentess and cruel, deceiving us, infecting us and seducing us into separation from God. The original Hebrew and Greek words for temptation mean "trial." To live in a human body is to face trials, one after another, every moment of every day...

Genesis 8, verses 6 through 12Matthew 3, verse 16Song of Solomon 2, verse 14Song of Solomon 5, verse 2Little did I know, the dove and the raven that Noah sent out from the ark as the waters receded, can be seen as symbols for the true Spirit vs. the false spirit of the world. One flees without ever returning, abandoning ship and proving itself to be untrustworthy. The other brings truth and guidan...

Matthew 12, verse 45Mark 16, verse 9Ephesians 6, verse 121 Timothy 4, verse 1Whether through outright demon possession or sustained demonic attacks on a daily basis, every person on Earth must navigate the principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of this world (Ephesians 6, verse 12).Satan, the Enemy, is real, and he directs the legions of his demons to afflict us in all that we do. Most...

Psalm 91, verse 5Proverbs 1, verse 332 Timothy 2, verse 19Matthew 16, verse 18John 10, verse 28News headlines bring anxiety, fear and dread, which build over time to create untold physical, mental, emotional and spiritual afflictions. These afflictions are mirrored in our personal lives, in relationship, at work and on our daily rounds. What, as Christians, are we to do? As we discuss in this vide...

Matthew 5, verse 42 Corinthians 1, verses 3 through 5John 14, verse 18John 16, verse 33While the Holiday Season is difficult for many of us, loneliness and bad memories are afflictions that often last throughout the year. Here, we look at Jesus’ promises to bring us comfort and consolation in our tribulations, and we remind ourselves of the need to be in the Word and in prayer every day, as much a...

Matthew 13, verses 1 through 9, and 18 through 231 John 2, verses 20 and 27Matthew 13, verses 10 through 12In the Parable of the Sower, we are shown that seeds fell or were planted in four different places: 1) off the side of the road; 2) amongst the rocks; 3) amongst thorny plants; and 4) in good ground. The first three bear little or no fruit, and result in keeping one out of the Kingdom of God....

Matthew 12, verse 30Matthew 10, verse 37Matthew 6, verse 24Acts 20, verses 28 through 30Joshua 24, verse 15Exodus 23, verse 24Lots of verses this time, but mainly we focus on the first one, Matthew 12:30.Like many of you, I’ve had this verse in the back of my mind all my life, whispering, nudging, prompting. And I managed to ignore and deny it for nearly 45 years. All during those years of wanderi...

Matthew 11, verses 28 through 30Ephesians 3, verse 1One of the deeper mysteries in the Gospel of Jesus Christ comes through His invitation for us to be yoked to Him, like an oxen pulling a plow. Don’t we desire liberation from our heavy burdens? Why would we want the added restriction and weight of a yoke on our neck? It’s counterintuitive, but yoking ourselves to Jesus is the most liberating thin...

Jeremiah 17, verse 5John 3, verse 27James 1, verse 17Jeremiah 29, verses 12 through 13Hebrews 11, verse 6All our problems in life stem from our arrogant, proud determination to do everything without God. The meaning of life comes from making God the center of our life, relying on Him for everything. Without God, our lives are cursed. With God, our lives are blessed. Simple, but for me, it took ove...

2 Timothy 1, verses 6 through 10Romans 1, verse 16As a preacher’s kid who grew up in the church, I always felt awkward inviting friends to Sunday School. I encountered mockery and humiliation more than once, which made it difficult to expose myself on subsequent occasions. Yet, I had a deep admiration for missionaries who would visit our church. They would have long slide-shows from the Indian jun...

Psalm 139, verses 1 through 4 Romans 8, verses 26 and 27 Jeremiah 23, verse 24 Psalm 90, verse 8 Like petulant children, we look right at God and do the very thing He says not to do. We do it so often, in full knowledge that God sees all, that we eventually lose track, and it becomes a way of life. No matter how “holy” or “righteous” we may be, we tend to reserve a part of ourselves that chases af...

Revised Common Lectionary: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu Luke 15, verses 11 through 172 Peter 2, verses 20 through 22John 5, verse 22The freely-given Grace and Mercy shown by God when He gave us the one and only path to Salavation - comes with a responsibility. I’m not saying we can lose our Salvation. If it was genuine, then the Father loves us and operates in us no matter what - I be...

Jason Jack (Satan’s Little Season ministry): https://www.youtube.com/@JasonJackJohn 8, verse 44Genesis 3, verses 1 through 4Revelation 20, verses 2 and 3Jeremiah 9, verses 2 through 6John 1, verse 17Many are waking from a lifelong slumber under the spell of deception. Who is the Father of Deception? Setting aside any beliefs we may have about the End Times, the Apocalypse and the Rapture - what if...

Luke 15, verses 17 through 19 Ezekiel 18, verse 28 1 Samuel 7, verses 3 and 4 Many of us have known God most of our lives, having accepted Christ at an early age - only to make choices that lead us away from God, into a spiritual wasteland where we flounder from one potential solution to another. We may follow the path of drugs and alcohol, sex and the party life. We may get sick of these things a...