https://odb.org/2025/09/02/see-what-god-has-done Acts 9:1–6 (NIV): 9 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisonersContinue reading “Dramatic change?”
Category Archives: God’s calling
The Son is not a created being
https://odb.org/2025/03/17/making-peace Colossians 1:15–20 (NIV): 15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him, all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is beforeContinue reading “The Son is not a created being”
Unfathomable God
https://odb.org/2025/03/05/unfathomable-god Isaiah 40:25–26 (NIV): 25 “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great powerContinue reading “Unfathomable God”
For my thoughts are not your thoughts
https://odb.org/2025/02/12/a-change-of-plans Isaiah 55:8–11 (NIV): 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return toContinue reading “For my thoughts are not your thoughts”
Fishers of men
Matthew 4:18–22 (NKJV): 18 And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.21 Going onContinue reading “Fishers of men”
The LORD looks at the heart
https://odb.org/2025/02/07/not-irrelevant 1 Samuel 16:6–13 (NIV): 6 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed stands here before the LORD.” 7 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 atContinue reading “The LORD looks at the heart”
We need to cultivate our own garden
https://odb.org/2025/02/06/a-cultivating-life Genesis 2:4–9, 15 (NIV): 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. 5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on theContinue reading “We need to cultivate our own garden”
Focus on Jesus
https://odb.org/2025/02/05/dont-miss-the-point John 5:36–40 (NIV): 36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen hisContinue reading “Focus on Jesus”
You have set my feet in a spacious place
https://odb.org/2025/02/04/a-spacious-place Psalm 31 NIV – 8 You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place. The moment we are born onto this earth, we face a narrowing space in terms of our life here on earth. We all have our respective expiry dates asContinue reading “You have set my feet in a spacious place”
It is finished
https://odb.org/2025/01/08/a-deaf-heart John19:30 NIV – When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Hebrews 2:9, 14-15 NIV – 9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor becauseContinue reading “It is finished”
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