Daily Faith Boosters

You Shall Not Want

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1   Dear friends, the problem with such Scriptures as this one is our illusion of familiarity. Most Christians mistake their mental acquaintance with this wonderful psalm for actual knowledge or revelation of...

Take Off Saul’s Armour!

So Saul clothed David with his armour, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. David fastened his sword to his armour and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, "I cannot walk with these, for I have...

Be A History Maker

And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." 1 Samuel 17:33   "YOU ARE NOT ABLE...". How presumptuous! How belittling! How dismissive! How arrogant!...

Is There Not A Cause?

And David said, "What have I done now? Is there not a cause?" 1 Samuel 17:29   David's response to his brother is doubly impressive. Firstly, as noted previously, it speaks of his ability to rise above his brother's bias and unfair treatment. Secondly, what David...

Keep Your Fire Burning

Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:6-7   Once the fire of God is kindled in our hearts, it is...

The Value of Privacy

And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?" Mark 8:23   Observe that the Lord Jesus chose not to heal the blind man in the village of...

You Need Another Touch

And he looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees, walking." Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. And he sent him to his home, saying, "Do not even enter the...

The Value of Privacy

And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?" Mark 8:23   Observe that the Lord Jesus chose not to heal the blind man in the village of...

FRIENDS IN NEED, FRIENDS INDEED

Then they came to Bethsaida; and some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged Him to touch him. Mark 8:22   We can learn several lessons from the friends of the blind man in this Bible passage. Firstly, it is remarkable that in this particular case, the...