https://odb.org/2025/10/30/repurposed Genesis 45:12–15, 21-27 (NIV): 12 “You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you. 13 Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”14 Then he threw his arms aroundContinue reading “Joseph – his life repurposed by Yahweh”
Category Archives: Journey of faith
Eternal perspective
https://odb.org/2025/10/03/representing-jesus 2 Corinthians 5:9–10 (NIV): 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in theContinue reading “Eternal perspective”
A leap of faith
https://odb.org/2025/09/30/a-leap-of-faith Ephesians 2:1-5,8-10 (NIV): 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of usContinue reading “A leap of faith”
Loneliness
https://odb.org/2025/08/05/never-alone-8 Deuteronomy 31:1–8 (NIV): 31 Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: 2 “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’ 3 The LORD your God himself will cross over aheadContinue reading “Loneliness”
God’s faithfulness is forever
https://odb.org/2025/08/04/forever-faithful-2 Isaiah 40: 6-8, 10-11 NIV – 6 A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. 7 The grass withers and the flowers fall because the breath of the Lord blowsl on them. Surely, theContinue reading “God’s faithfulness is forever”
Life may be unfair
https://odb.org/2025/08/01/inherit-the-land Psalm 37:5-11 NIV – Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will do this:6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun. 7 Be still before the Lordand wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, whenContinue reading “Life may be unfair”
A friend at midnight
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”
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”
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”
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”
