Category: Pastoral

Daniel 2:22 “It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.” The secret things are hidden in the secret place of the most High God.  Humanity has an unquenchable thirst for eternity. God has “set eternity in the human heart.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)....

Psalm 16:11b ..In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.  ‘Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God’ – Sam Storms. ‘The secret of joy’ is in the presence of the Lord. CS Lewis said, ‘Happiness depends on ‘happenings” (circumstances), but JOY comes straight from...

2 Corinthians 9:10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. ‘Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant’ – Robert Louis Stevenson Deeds are seeds...

Matthew 8:17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. “God is waiting for you in the secret place” _ Jentezen Franklin Jesus did not use the excerpts in Matthew 8:17 as a negative undertone; it was a clip-on...

1 Samuel 17:36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. “The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.” — Oswald...

Matthew 10:26 “Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.” ‘Someday, honesty, trustworthiness, and loyalty will be appreciated and rewarded.’ The secrets hidden deep down in our hearts are broadcasted on the mega display screens in heaven. There are discussions about...

Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. ‘God can’t keep a secret. Our secret prayer, fasting and giving will be rewarded openly.’ God cannot keep our tears, prayers...