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”
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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”
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”
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”
Our own broken cisterns
https://odb.org/2025/07/14/digging-for-meaning Jeremiah 2:13 – “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. The background to Jeremiah 2 is that the Israelites had forsaken God and worshipped the prevalent dieties of the lands surrounding Canaan notwithstanding YahwehContinue reading “Our own broken cisterns”
Life in Christ
https://odb.org/2025/07/11/life-in-christ Amos 5:4-6: 4 This is what the Lord says to Israel: “Seek me and live; 5 do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal, will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.” 6 Seek the Lord and live, or he will sweepContinue reading “Life in Christ”
Do not quench the Spirit
https://odb.org/2025/07/09/panic-in-a-cave 1 Thessalonians 5:16–24 (NIV): 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject every kind of evil.23 May God himself, the God ofContinue reading “Do not quench the Spirit”
A diligent worker for Christ
https://odb.org/2025/07/07/growing-up-in-god 2 Timothy 2:14–16 (NIV): 14 Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarrelling about words; it is of no value and only ruins those who listen. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handlesContinue reading “A diligent worker for Christ”
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