And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. Then He opened His mouth and taught them. (Matthew 5:1-2) Christ sees people far differently than we do.
Devotionals
Henry Blackaby's Experiencing God: Bearing One Another’s Burdens
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:2) When God places people in your life who are in need, He is aware of what they lack, and He knows He has given you the resources to meet those needs.
Henry Blackaby's Experiencing God: Spiritual Famine
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.” (Amos 8:11) One way God communicates is through silence.
Oswald Chambers' My Utmost to His Highest: Have You Come to "When" Yet?
The Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends ~Job 42:10 A pitiful, sickly, and self-centered kind of prayer and a determined effort and selfish desire to be right with God are never found in the New Testament.
Oswald Chambers' My Utmost to His Highest: Careful Infidelity
“Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on.” (Matthew 6:25) Jesus sums up common sense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity.
My Utmost For His Highest : "The Life That Lives"
For a while now, I have been wondering about the power of the Holy Spirit that came UPON the disciples at Pentecost. Oswald Chambers provides his explanation of this “power from on high.”