https://odb.org/2026/08/27/where-god-reigns James 4:1–10 (NIV): 4 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.Continue reading “Submit yourselves to God”
Category Archives: Freedom from sin
God sees everything
https://odb.org/2026/08/25/god-sees-all Amos 9:2–4 (NIV): 2 Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens above, from there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hideContinue reading “God sees everything”
Confessing our sins
https://odb.org/2025/04/24/hidden-toxins Proverbs 28:9–13 (ESV): 9 If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,even his prayer is an abomination.10 Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit,but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance. 11 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understandingContinue reading “Confessing our sins”
Repentance
https://odb.org/2024/08/23/a-repentant-heart When I was a younger believer, I was taught a very important lesson that perhaps nowadays we place less emphasis on. The lesson is that even as we confess our sins and seek forgiveness before God and accept by faith Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, we need to also repent from ourContinue reading “Repentance”
Hallelujah
https://odb.org/2024/08/18/heaven-is-singing Revelation 19:1-5: 1 After these things, I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Alleluia! Salvation and glory and honour and power belong to the Lord our God! 2 For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication;Continue reading “Hallelujah”
Freedom in God
https://odb.org/2024/06/19/the-god-who-announces-freedom The story of God calling Moses in Exodus 3 at the burning bush is probably familiar to most of us as it is a passage often preached from the pulpit. I think I have heard a message on that at least a few times in my life. There are familiar themes on the holinessContinue reading “Freedom in God”
