Praying for the Sick, 2 Kings 13:14
Praying for the Sick 2 Kings 13:14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When praying for the sick, keep in mind that God doesn’t always heal sick folks. In 2 Ki 13:14, when Elisha was sick, he died. And unlike Hezekiah, he didn’t weep sore over this outcome, trying to persuade God to heal him [2 Ki 20:1-7]. […]
Comforting Others
II Corinthians 1:3-4 Introduction: The God of all comfort vs3, comforts us, so that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble vs 4. God comforts the believer in time of need and when someone else goes through something, the believer is able to comfort others that needs comforting, with the […]
How to Live (A Study In Ecclesiastes) Lesson #5 Those with no Comfort
How to Live (A Study in Ecclesiastes) Lesson #5 Those with no Comfort (Ecclesiastes 4:1-3) This is an interesting passage. Not that Solomon is considering the oppressed in this lesson. There are many different types of oppression we will give a dictionary definition for the word oppression below. Oppression – the imposition of unreasonable burdens […]
My Words Do Good, Mic 2:7
In Mic 2:7, the Lord asks, “do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?” Indeed, they do. For us who desire to walk uprightly, God’s words are very good. The key is that you must be walking uprightly. These words are not good to anyone who is determined to walk frowardly. […]
Lessons in Comforting
Lessons in Comforting Job 2:11-13 How to comfort someone who is in great despair can be a very tricky thing. Most of the time we simply do not know what to say or do. Here we will look at the book of Job and how his three friends came to comfort him in order to […]
Sort Yourself Out, Ps 77:1-6
Our text is Ps 77:1-6. I call this message, Sort Yourself Out. You must sort yourself out whenever things around you get you down. Asaph shows us, in this text, how to sort ourselves out. Commune with your own heart, Ps 77:6. Talk over and discuss with the Lord, v.1-3, what’s in your […]
Thy Rod And Thy Staff, Ps 23:4
In Ps 23:4, David wrote, “thy rod and thy staff they comfort me”. The rod and the staff are the only two instruments a shepherd carried with him when he was with his flock. The shepherd usually carved his rod out of a sapling tree. He carved the heavier, club-like end of the rod […]
Let the Holy Spirit Work, Lk 1:15
In the first four chapters of the Gospel of Luke, we see repeated references to the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of John the Baptist and his family and Jesus Christ and his family. When you read these chapters you understand that the Holy Spirit orchestrated everything. He filled John the Baptist […]
Good Signs of His Coming, 1 Thes 1:9-10
Shortly after news of the coronavirus first broke in the United States, Christians started asking, “Do you think this is a sign of the end times?” And so I preached the message that compared the coronavirus with Biblical pestilences because I didn’t believe that this was a Biblical pestilence. From then until now, people […]
Comforting the Grieving, Job 2:11-13
What can you do to comfort the grieving? Just sit with them – Job 2:11-13 – Job’s friends did more by just sitting down with him quietly than they did by trying to talk him through his situation. It’s hard to know what you should or should not say; you can’t explain why what their […]