Category: Spiritual Motivation

Genesis 32:28 “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” Jacob was a wrestler. He wrestled in the womb with his twin brother Esau. But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like this?”...

Acts 2:7-8 Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? The first Pentecost was the 50th day after the resurrection of Jesus. It is also the Jewish feast of Pentecost (Shavuot) which was a thanksgiving for the first fruits...

Matthew 26:71 When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” Hanging out with Jesus for 3 ½ years had changed the raspy, rough fisherman Peter into an eloquent and exegete speaker. Peter was trying to hide his...

Esther 2:10 Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so. The estimated price of the most expensive violin, the Messiah Stradivarius, is about $20 million. It was crafted by the world-renowned violin maker, Antonio Stradivari in 1716. A general observation is that the more expensive the...

Psalm 78:25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance. The conventional commercial ovens of heaven baked bread for the wandering Israelite hoard for 40 long years. The travelers had no territory to cultivate their own food. As they were traversing through the dry desert which had no supermarkets or supplies...

1 Corinthians 6:19b-20 You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. The value of a product heavily depends on the brand and the place it was manufactured. The American Marketing Association defines a brand as “A name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one...