Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Tue, 05/07/2024 - 10:44am
2 Kings 6.17
Do you ever try and try... and try - to help someone see something that they just can’t seem to see?
Of course we do - if we have anything to do with serving the Lord – just like the situation with Elisha here.
We must understand the part we play in the lives of people by simple PRAYER. (Because God does hear it!)
That was all Elisha DID here. It was ALL he could DO. “And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sat, 05/04/2024 - 1:14pm
2 Timothy 4:3-4
God gave us the Bible, and it is full of stories. True stories of God’s love and man’s need for God’s love. Stories of how sinners came to an understanding of their sin and their need. Stories of sinners who chose to turn to a loving God in repentance and faith. It’s the greatest story ever told, because it is the story of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But people get tired of that story. They get tired of the Bible.
Even if it is the BEST thing for Christians, just like milk is for newborn babies(1 Peter 2.2-3)
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 9:52am
Proverbs 30.26
This verse is speaking about “conies”. Conies are little creatures like rabbits, also known as rock badgers.
The Lord tells us, “The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks:”
When the Bible here says “feeble”, we know what “feeble” means – it means weak i.e. not strong!
That reminds me of the Jews when they were rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem with Nehemiah, and their enemies called them “feeble” – trying to ridicule them and discourage them! They said, “What do these feeble Jews?” (Nehemiah 2.4)
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 04/18/2024 - 11:44am
John 5.39
No matter how many times I remind myself or write it on a sticky note or write it somewhere in my diary I still need to see it, hear it, and DO IT...
READ MORE BIBLE!!!
Any time... anywhere... all the time... everywhere!!!
Which to me just simply means “at every opportunity.”
The Bible is not OBSOLETE... rather, the Bible is ABSOLUTE!!! So we can read it, and think about it, and search out every part of it, whatever God is using to speak to our heart.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Tue, 04/09/2024 - 1:12pm
Psalms 145:7
“abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness”
Whew! That’s a mouthful. But do we have a lot of memories about God’s goodness? Memories of God working in our lives, helping us, and blessing us? Do we talk about them a lot?
I realized a few things when I read this recently:
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Tue, 03/19/2024 - 9:46am
Proverbs 25.25
It’s true to say, “There’s not much good news these days!”
Isn’t it amazing that a world living in rejection and denial of its Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, has very little to actually talk about – and what does “make the news” are often the worst of things?
Not so for the born again Christian! Because we have received the “Good News” – the Gospel! The BEST news! We have a LOT of good to talk about!
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 03/14/2024 - 9:49am
Proverbs 28:14
That makes absolutely no sense!
It’s like, “I’m so happy because I’m so afraid all of the time!”
Wow! Talk about religion using the guilt trip! Therapy here we come!
Hang on… this is a Proverb, and these proverbs usually have a contrasting part in each verse… “Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.” Proverbs 28:14
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Tue, 03/12/2024 - 9:37am
Matthew 14:24
It’s not a matter of “Will we have a storm in our life?” It’s a matter of when and how big is the storm.
“the ship was now
in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves”
The disciples found themselves in a boat in the midst of the storm, and they were in the boat because Jesus told them to get in the boat! Verse 22
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 02/28/2024 - 11:39am
Psalm 121.2
Here David was struggling with life, with the world, the flesh, and the devil and he was just making the statement… “My help cometh”. A statement by faith, in faith, with confidence in His Lord and his Shepherd…
“My help cometh”
“My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”
Psalm 121.2-4
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Sat, 02/24/2024 - 11:34pm
Deuteronomy 32.27c
Nearly every time I read this verse I must go back and read it again because I think I must have read it wrong!
The context is, What happens to the people of the Lord when they turn their back on their God… Well, things go bad… then things go from bad – to worse!
But as bad as things might get, people often look around and say “…and the Lord hath not done all this.” It’s bad luck...
…just unlucky.
What…? Just “bad luck”?
I pray two things: