Gideon: God’s work through him. Build an altar to the Lord your God (Judges 6:26). It is interesting to see the speed at which God works in the life of
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Gideon: God’s work in him. Go in this might of yours, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you? (Judges 6:14). It
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Gideon: the starting point “The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valour!” (Judges 6:12). Judges 6 does not start well. The emerging nation of Israel had rest for
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Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-Nego and Immanuel “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the
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Vision “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” And Elisha prayed, and said, “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see” (2 Kings 6:16-17). A few years
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A broken heart that re-built a city “Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”
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Intergenerational togetherness: Abraham and Isaac So the two of them went together (Genesis 22:8). I was asked recently to speak on the subject of intergenerational togetherness, based on the relationship
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Samuel and David For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart (1 Samuel 16:7). God
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Samuel and Saul “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams” (1 Samuel 15:22). The failure of Samuel’s children as judges led to
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Samuel and rejection They have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them (1 Samuel 8:7). Samuel served God all the days of
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Samuel and Israel And the word of Samuel came to all Israel (1 Samuel 4:1). Samuel’s relationship with the nation of Israel begins at today’s verse. Just when we think
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Samuel and Eli And the child Samuel grew in stature, and in favour both with the LORD and men (1 Samuel 2:26). Samuel’s life is told within the context of
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