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”
Category Archives: God’s plans and purposes
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”
Walking with God
https://odb.org/2025/01/14/walk Genesis 5 NIV – 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; thenContinue reading “Walking with God”
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”
You, O Lord, know everything about me
https://odb.org/2025/01/05/god-knows-everything Psalm 139 NIV – 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on myContinue reading “You, O Lord, know everything about me”
God saw that it was good
https://odb.org/2024/12/19/gods-view-of-us Genesis 1:9-10 – 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. It is superb and excellent thatContinue reading “God saw that it was good”
Joseph, the husband of Mary
https://odb.org/2024/12/17/the-rescue-2 God’s plan in saving the world was to send His only son to the world that whoever believed in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). Yet His son can not miraculously appear out of thin air. Thus, God chose Mary, who was already betrothed to Joseph, a descendant of theContinue reading “Joseph, the husband of Mary”
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