The Lord gave gifts to men: The Bible teaches that after Jesus was received into heaven, he gave gifts to men. Now the gifts that he gave men are apart from those we are born with. When we are born, we come equipped with a variety of gifts, many of which are never discovered. But
Sitting with reapers
The Lord recompense: God rewards those who faithfully exercise their duty to serve him. The scriptures tell us that God is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him (Heb 11:6). When we seek to serve God, and not as man pleasers, then it is when the rewards come. Jesus told a multitude of followers
Unprofitable, profitable
The transitioning: The story of Philemon and Onesimus is one about trust, friendship, and betrayal. It is a story that depicts the restoration that is found in Christ Jesus. Onesimus ran away from his home, where he was a slave, because of wrongdoing. He became an unprofitable servant. Some say that Onesimus ran away from
An act of love.
It belongs to Christ: Everything on earth and everywhere else that exists belongs to Christ. When Christ came into the world, his father made sure that he lacked nothing. Everything, including God’s most precious creation, was handed to him (Mt 11:27). God gave everything, visible and invisible, to his Son with the responsibility to finish
Ten, the perfect number
The gain in talents: In the parable of the ten talents, the rich man leaves and distributes his goods to his servants for them to make gains. To one, he gives five talents, and he goes and gains five more. To another, two talents, and he too goes and gains two more talents. And, to
In cloud nine
The praying experience: Prayer is an elevated form of speaking with God. The biblical form of prayer, such as kneeling or lying face down on the ground, if possible, isolating everything else from your mind, is the preferred type of prayer. God will hear you in whatever position your body will tolerate when you pray.
God will do something beautiful at the end.
The secret things: We have been intrigued with the mysteries of this planet so much that people have died trying to figure them out. Our hearts tell us that there is a being with supreme powers that created the undiscovered and unknown. The quest to know constantly leads us to failure to discover. It is
Overcoming intimidation
Scary situation: If you have ever felt intimidated by a problem or a situation that seemed too big to handle, that is not a good feeling. We have all had them. Intimidation stems from the desire of someone or something to exert control over another person. Effects such as stress, anxiety, shyness, and depression come
The little ones of Christ
Believing that He can is: Having faith in God is one of the most important virtues to have. The idea of believing in a deity more powerful than we is a hopeful thing, first to ourselves, then to others. With so many problems of ginormous magnitude, without the hope of ever overcoming them, it is
In agreement with God
His hand works: God is actively at work in all of our lives. His perfect will needs to be carried out, and we are the vessels he chose. The Bible tells us that God has put his treasure in jars of clay to demonstrate his transforming power (2 Cor 4:7). That through our weakness his