https://odb.org/2025/07/30/a-friend-at-midnight John 15:14–17 (NIV): 14 “You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, butContinue reading “A friend at midnight”
Author Archives: Ronnie Lim
Sustained by God
https://odb.org/2025/07/29/sustained-by-god Psalm 55:16-23 NIV – 16 As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me. 17 Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress,and he hears my voice. 18 He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.19 God, who is enthroned from of old,Continue reading “Sustained by God”
God sees and hears
https://odb.org/2025/07/28/to-see-and-to-serve Lamentations 3:58–59 (NIV): 58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life. 59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause! Often, we go through miserable times. But there are people who go through worse, much worse. It’s so bad that some things, once seen, can not be unseen. YetContinue reading “God sees and hears”
Spiritual gifts
https://odb.org/2025/07/25/god-given-gifts 1 Peter 4:7–11 (NIV): 7 The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. 8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have receivedContinue reading “Spiritual gifts”
Right time and right place
https://odb.org/2025/07/24/right-place-right-time Esther 4:10–16 (NIV): 10 Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, 11 “All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless theContinue reading “Right time and right place”
The Holy Spirit
https://odb.org/2025/07/23/led-by-the-holy-spirit John 14:15–20 (NIV): 15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth. The world can not accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for heContinue reading “The Holy Spirit”
Unceasing prayer
https://odb.org/2025/07/22/persisting-in-prayer Luke 18:1–8 (NIV): 18 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming toContinue reading “Unceasing prayer”
Shelter from storms
https://odb.org/2025/07/21/shelters-of-gods-care Isaiah 32:1–4 (NIV): 32 See, a king will reign in righteousness, and rulers will rule with justice. 2 Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land. 3 Then theContinue reading “Shelter from storms”
The poor and us as believers
https://odb.org/2025/07/17/loving-jesus-most Deuteronomy 15:1–11 (NIV): 15 At the end of every seven years, you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people because the LORD’s time for cancelling debtsContinue reading “The poor and us as believers”
Be transformed by the renewing of our minds
https://odb.org/2025/07/16/habits-and-the-holy-spirit Romans 12:1–3 (NIV): 12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then,Continue reading “Be transformed by the renewing of our minds”
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