Living word for 21-May-2024. Scripture teaches and says, “Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.”

John 19:25 teaches and says, “Standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, His mothers sister, mary the wife of clopas, and mary magdalene.” Prior to this scripture Jesus had been crucified for all the wrong reasons from an earthly perspective wheras from a spiritual perspective it was for all the right reasons because

Living word for 20-May-2024. Scripture says, “Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.”

The scipture teaches today in 1Peter 3:8-9 that, “Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.” I like the way this scripture starts, it says “finally” meaning in conclusion, meaning the final advise is that, number one, “all of you be like minded.” Meaning as believers, asthe body

Living word for 18-May-2024. Scripture says, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable —if anything is excellent or praiseworthy —think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me —put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”

*Yesterday we learned something concerning forsaking unrighteous thoughts which includes thoughts of evil and the like.* On the contrary we are advised to think in a certain way as believers because whatever dominates your thought life is what will dominate you as a person. Thoughts are powerful because all sin is a prethought and all

Living word for 17-May-2024. Scripture says, “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”

*The scripture teaches in Isaiah 55:6-7 that, “Seek the LORD”* let’s first pause here and understand that the onus has been laid on you and me according to the scriptures to *”seek the LORD”* the word seek here means, *”To try to find or to look for or to search for.”* Which means we are

Living word for 16-May-2024. Scripture says, “But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

The children of Israel after entering the promised land cried to the LORD that they wanted a king like all the other kingdoms around them, God wasn’t pleased because they had rejected Him as their king and opted for a person to be king but he accepted their request and through Samuel the Prophet, he

Living word for 15-May-2024. Scripture says, “While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time: This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the one who formed it and established it, the LORD is his name. Call unto me and I will answer. I will show thee great and mighty things.”

*We get a word from the prophet Jeremiah and the scripture says in Jeremiah 33:1-3 that, “While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:”* We are told that Jeremiah was still confined, meaning he was in a prison of sorts in

Living word for 14-May-2024. Scripture says, “I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.”

*The scripture teaches today in revelation 3:8 that, “I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.”* Today we learn from Apostle John, the disciple the Jesus loved

Living word for 13-May-2024. Scripture says, “If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

We get some more advise from the book of Peter. The scripture says in 1Peter 4:11 that, “If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God.” Let’s first pause here and learn more on this, it says if anyone meaning either you or me and especially if its

Living word for 11-May-2024. Scripture says, “Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.”

*Peter didnt write any synoptic account as we got from only matthew, mark, Luke and John though its believed he is the one who gave the account that mark wrote. However we get a chance to read his writing in the books of 1st and 2nd peter.* Today let’s study from one of those accounts

Living word for 10-May-2024. Scripture says, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

*The scripture teaches today in Matthew 7:13-14 that, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”* Straight away we