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:
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Mon, 02/19/2024 - 11:11am
John 13.30
This is speaking of the time when Judas Iscariot left Jesus, to betray Him.
“He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.”
“it was night.”
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Thu, 02/08/2024 - 11:53am
Luke 5.5
How much faith does it take to obey?
Not much.
In the verse above, Peter didn’t really believe that they were going to catch any fish… “Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing”.
Those were the facts. That’s what he had seen – NO FISH!
Peter couldn’t see that they would catch anything, but he went ahead and say, “nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.”
We may not have much faith, and the facts may challenge what little faith we have!
But… how much faith does it take to obey?
Not much.
Submitted by Pastor Tottingham on Wed, 01/31/2024 - 11:21am
Genesis 31.42b
It is important to know where we stand with the Lord.
It is important because, there are often times in our spiritual life when people give us a hard time. But we should KNOW where we stand, and we KNOW the Lord sees our heart, our attitude and our actions, and He defends us. “God hath seen… and rebuked thee…”
That is the point of having a Daily Walk with the Lord. (A time of prayer, Bible reading and meditation/thinking over what we have read.) And that’s the point of having Humility.
